What's for Dinner, Sun., Aug. 18, 2024

[NJCher]

First up, cold creamy tomato soup with four-cheese ravioli.

Is this ever easy for a hot day. It's only 80 here but it's humid. To avoid heating up the kitchen much, I heated water in the microwave and then put it in a pan. It came to a boil fast and I only needed to boil the ravioli for 3" anyway.

Put it in the room temp soup, which came out of a box (Pacific brand, very good) and put chopped basil on top.

Next up is a tossed green salad, for which I washed all the greens last night, so that will be easy, too. I'm using the usual cucumber, cherry tomatoes, scallions, celery and green peppers, all from the garden. I have cold shrimp to put in the salad and will use Caesar for the dressing.

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I do have some pics for you, however. The pics are from the RG, who went to Beunos Aires for a 10-day vacation because he was sick of the heat. Winter there.



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[elleng]

1. Beautiful crusty!

SO miss local patisserie, best croissants, and very good baguette and brioche.

Just had toasted everything bagel w avocado. Iced coffee.

[irisblue]

2. Burger patty & salad & cold lime fizzy water

[Squeaky41]

3. On a cool 82 Placerville Sunday

Corn chowder with onion, potato, half and half and condiments.
Saltine crackers. Possible sweet pickle

[Emile]

4. Brats, chips and dip.

Ice cold Spotted Cow to wash it down.

Zucchini brownie before bedtime.

Good Evening

[gibraltar72]

5. T bones potato salad and colremorbus.

[NJCher]

7. colremorbus

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[gibraltar72]

9. Cukes sliced then put in vinegar wit onions.

Believe that is what a really bad stomach ache is called. My dads family always referred to those as colremorbus.

[NJCher]

10. I've had that

It's a really good way to have cucumbers, but have never heard it called colremorbus.

[Cairycat]

6. Something I'm calling Mediterranean fish

a zander filet, topped with a mixture of a chopped fresh tomato, a few Kalamata olives and capers, shallot and onion briefly microwave sauteed in olive oil, tarragon and chopped fennel fronds, and a dash of sherry vinegar, then baked. Also braised fennel and baked potato. Dessert is a plumcot and peach galette.

We eat pretty simply on the weekdays - tomorrow is minestrone - I only cook on weekends, my son cooks during the week. Although sometimes he goes gourmet himself.

[NJCher]

8. The seasoning

For the top of the Zander must have been delicious. The fennel fronds make a spectacular plate presentation.

I have this huge fennel at one of my gardens. It has the fronds and dozens of yellow seed heads. I’ll try to remember to get a pic. I really need to stake it. It is over 6’ tall!

Fennel is so much fun to cook with.