1. The day began with bacon jam: easy, a couple of hours simmering on the stovetop, a little puree action in the cuisinart, et voila! Sweet, salty, smoky, spicy. The four essential "S's".
2. Moving right along to Connie's Kale: finely chopped kale "massaged" with salt, tossed with apple, pine nuts, gorgonzola + a cider vinaigrette.
3. Dill pickles. Hot water bath. Hot kitchen.
4. Three kinds of "Vin Maison": apricot, blackberry, peach. They should be ready in about a month:
5. Oh yes, dinner: marinated potato and green bean salad, grilled Lummi Island salmon. Yellow jackets on the prowl.
6. Blackberry crisp, a dollop of whipped cream. (Pinch of cinnamon.)
I don't know what culinary muse took hold of me today, but it was really waaaay too hot to be doing what I did.
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ReplyDeleteYou're a whizz, T. And now I'm hungry and looking dolefully at the 'thing' I was going to name dinner (don't ask). Your Vin Maison looks tantalizing and will add a flush to your cheeks when the leaves turn.
ReplyDeleteI wish I had been a fly on the wall.....what a cook you are!!!!
ReplyDeleteT, the Chinese posts are bogus and lead to some kind of porn....I refuse now to publish any of them! Just so you know. They are spam.