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More summer fooding
Aug. 3rd, 2012 10:54# Cold Rice Noodles with Peanut-Lime Chicken - This was, though not a failure, as close as I have come in a good long while. To start with (you'll laugh), I grew up with electric ranges and no one told me that to broil things in a gas oven you put them in the drawer at the bottom of the oven. WTF, with my oven at my dad's house that is where we stored pans. So although I made an excellent choice in marinating the chicken overnight, I could not get it to actually cook through in the oven set to broil, since the drawer is the broiler. I wound up slicing the chicken and sauteeing it with some more of the marinade in a skillet, which worked well but by then my paranoia was at full pitch, so I overcooked it. The rice noodles were also a) too thick and b) underdone, which was not pleasant. That said, it's a great recipe if you can fix those problems, and stored separately, the components kept well.
# Blackberry Gin Fizz - I am drinking one of these right now and it is delicious. I forgot to add the sugar in step one, but adding 1 Tbsp to my glass and 1 Tbsp to my remaining puree seemed to work fine. NB: I used somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 cup blackberries, because that's how I roll.
# I have been eating a lot out of Suzanne Goin's terrific, tres California Sunday Suppers at Lucques. I am, frankly, far too lazy to type out recipes 99% of the time, but other bloggers have done some of the work for me. Viz this Summer Fruit Salad with Arugula and Almonds. Buying arugula always makes me think of My Blue Heaven ("It's a veg-eh-table."), and I think I wound up with about twice as much as SG intended, but even with double arugula it was delicious, and also kept reasonably well.
There's also this Sweet Corn Soup with Avocado Cream, which was also mind-bogglingly delicious (the corn here is so good, and I say that as someone who grew up with good Jersey corn).
I can't find the recipe I'm currently eating, so good I've made it twice, Pasta with Heirloom Tomato Sauce, but oh god it's good. Cupcake Muffin, you should make that and post it to your blog!
# Blackberry Gin Fizz - I am drinking one of these right now and it is delicious. I forgot to add the sugar in step one, but adding 1 Tbsp to my glass and 1 Tbsp to my remaining puree seemed to work fine. NB: I used somewhere between 1/3 and 1/2 cup blackberries, because that's how I roll.
# I have been eating a lot out of Suzanne Goin's terrific, tres California Sunday Suppers at Lucques. I am, frankly, far too lazy to type out recipes 99% of the time, but other bloggers have done some of the work for me. Viz this Summer Fruit Salad with Arugula and Almonds. Buying arugula always makes me think of My Blue Heaven ("It's a veg-eh-table."), and I think I wound up with about twice as much as SG intended, but even with double arugula it was delicious, and also kept reasonably well.
There's also this Sweet Corn Soup with Avocado Cream, which was also mind-bogglingly delicious (the corn here is so good, and I say that as someone who grew up with good Jersey corn).
I can't find the recipe I'm currently eating, so good I've made it twice, Pasta with Heirloom Tomato Sauce, but oh god it's good. Cupcake Muffin, you should make that and post it to your blog!