BeeZee

Absolutely gorgeous shots of produce and the resulting dishes, I am finding inspiration for my own kitchen!

I did make the Tunisian potato salad for the company picnic, it was well received. I also added more capers and more olives than the recipe above called for, since I was cooking 3 lbs of potatoes, and finely minced the onion. The other slight mod I made was mixing some smoked paprika with the sweet paprika. I had made "quick" preserved lemons a couple of days prior and they didn't seem to have broken down at all, so I really minced them down into small bits. I'd make the recipe again, but I have to remember to really heavily salt the water for the potatoes, I felt that I had to keep adding salt to the salad. Probably if I had "real" preserved lemons a bit of the salty juice would be a good addition.

When I was growing up on Long Island (NY) from the age of 6 to 12 our next door neighbors had half of their backyard devoted to growing things. And bee keeping. For me, fresh raspberries take me back to those hot summer mornings when my friend's Mother gave us bowls and put us out into the bushes to pick the ripe berries (they had blueberries and blackberries in addition to raspberries) but there is a particular smell that fruit and vegetables get from the hot sun and even now if I'm lucky to get a fresh tomato hot off the bush I inhale deeply. As for their bee keeping, toast with a thin scrape of butter, then a drizzle of honey (5 minutes removed from the comb), that was a treat they introduced to me. It's funny but my food memory triggers seem to be more centered around the raw ingredients (and my Mom is a good cook). Probably the linkage with the happy summer vacation vibe!

I actually use the method paulraphael shows on the right hand diagram. It works very well. And saves me from the stress I get with my knife phobia of possibly slicing into my fingers.

that slice in front, with the bubble creating a void to allow a shell of a crust...that's my piece!

I'm going to make that Tunisian potato salad next week for a company picnic, since it will be sitting outdoors for a while I like the idea of no mayo or dairy products in the mix. Found some recipes for "quick" versions of preserved lemon so I plan on making my own.

Fried seaweed rolls (Korean, I believe) from Hmart. Filled with rice, ingredients list said also contained burdock root. Rice grains were completely separate and rounded in shape, not compressed/sticky like a Japanese roll. Tempura like batter outside. Came with soy dipping sauce, which made the dish. I ate them at room temp (had stopped at the market on the way back to the office) and they were still good. Bet they'd benefit from a quick reheat in a hot oven to re-crisp.

I'm really enjoying this also. Very interesting to see the variety of food items, I wouldn't necessarily enjoy eating some of them but I'm enjoying the idea of them!

my off menu Blizzard is pineapple cheesequake. Pineapple topping and the cheesecake-like cubes. My local store only shows strawberry cheesequake on the menu board, and that's too sweet, plus I am not a fan of the strawberry seeds. On menu I usually go for turtle or snickers with vanilla.

I'll dissent and say that I appreciate the fact that I can get a "mini" size Blizzard. Finally someone offers a smaller sized option for an alternate to the stupid-sized universe.

Interesting idea...I have had the Over the Moon milk product and they do manage to make skim milk taste not watery...

yep... also jalapeno cheddar and kettle corn flavors, they are so light it's easy to over eat them

setting the tastiest bit aside for cook's treat, and eating it, before piranha husband materializes hand feeding bits from the cutting board (cooked protein) to the cat (who is picky enough to not want to eat if it falls on the floor)

There was recently a recipe for miso caramel on Food52, I can totally see white miso working in a sophisticated dessert https://food52.com/recipes/18618-miso-caramel

Kind of a lopsided shopping today at the local supermarket, just a few fill-in items...box of baby arugula, 2 small tomatoes, package of shredded, cooked chicken from rotisserie (salad for dinner tomorrow); 2 apples and 6 bananas; box of Kashi cereal; 3 bottles seltzer; bottle of V-8 juice; 9 cans of cat food. Going on vacation next week, so the cat is the only one going to be home eating! Anxiously waiting for our town's farm market to start up again, it's been a cool spring and I suspect the local farmers won't have a huge amount of produce to start.

I like to cook it in chicken broth rather than plain water, then garlic/oil. Or sometime in a brothy dish. Its gonna be bitter no matter what.

if the yogurt has been stored properly (at the store, at home)...I regularly eat yogurt 2 weeks past the "best by" date and notice no difference in the flavor.

Not a savory item, but if anyone has matzoh they want to use up, make matzoh toffee crunch, it's like crack. This was the first time I made it, bringing it to a dinner tonight, and couldn't stop sampling the broken off pieces. The really small bits and nuts that were left on the foil after cutting went into a container to sprinkle over yogurt (or ice cream if you are less virtuous). Reynolds non-stick alum foil was a lifesaver when making this. Burnt sugar slides right off.

Limes $1.25 EACH today at supermarket. Yikes.

Blether, love the token "greenery"

packaged peeled "baby" carrots. Yes, I know they are larger carrots trimmed down and treated (ironically...my husband's friend worked on the original equipment design and didn't file a patent, so he lost out on a payday). It ensures that a healthy snack is easily available for my lazy husband (he dips in hummous).

+Yum I am hosting an after work meeting at my office next week, what recipe did you use/modify? I'm thinking this would be perfect to use for that group, also.

Well, I ate one of each flavor (ie, 6 of them) with a cup of tea...and hid the box in the back of the freezer. Actually, because of the sweetness, I was OK with "only" eating half of the box!

Just got back from TJ's, hit it pretty hard for $70. New item - Assorted macaron, 12 per box for $4.99 two each fig, salted caramel, pistachio, coconut, lemon, apricot. The fruit flavors were pretty vibrant, the coconut was 'meh'. I would buy these again.

went out for lunch instead of sad desk lunch today...pho tom (chicken broth with shrimp, included baby bok choy, which was nice) and an appetizer of summer rolls with tofu. I'm stuffed.