Maison Rustique

For what was hopefully the last of our hot weather for a while, I had a stuffed tomato (I've only got 2 home-grown left!) with one of my tinned fish meals. I didn't like this fish as much as the previous, which was Barcelona, but it was still tasty. I've still got the Provence/Nicoise version to go and plan to get some more of these to keep on hand. I haven't yet tried one on rice or pasta, but think they would be great. Or perhaps over a toasted baguette slice.

Wasn't sure whether to put this here or Non-food Funnies or Companions.

It was so good the other night that I had it again.

I was given a starter from a friend (she made it from scratch) who passed away a few years ago so it is special. With all the moving stuff, I did not have time to maintain it, so dried it. I'm anxious to re-hydrate and try it after I get moved.

I ordered this from my milkman. I honestly do not like this pizza but it was convenient so I got it and had a couple of small pieces of it last night. Shakespeare's is in Columbia, MO, home of MU. All my MU alumni friends/family love this pizza and I can only attribute it to good times getting drunk there because I find little to like about it--the meats on it are tasty, but the rest not. My sis was crying when I told her I got it. They are coming to help me this weekend--I'll save the leftovers for her. I only got it because I didn't want to go pick up a pizza somewhere and the only other pizza the milkman has is a cracker crust type thing that is even worse than this.

I saw something earlier online about freeze-dried fruit from TJ and other sources, too, but not sure now where I saw it. Why are we having so darned many recalls!!

Lovely evening at friends' last night. They served a delicious Roman Cacciatore with Potatoes (link to recipe follows), some sliced tomato I harvested at my sister's last week and nice Bourgogne Blanc to go with. One Pot Roman Cacciatore And my friend Dave also sent me home with a container of chili he made yesterday. Yum!

Spinach, home-grown tomato, onion, blue cheese, pepitas. We have a bit of a heat wave going again now that it is autumn, so I am using all these tomatoes and thinking light.

I did see on the Amazon listing that it shows several recipes from the book, too.

Just realized why I love potatoes so much. They are perfect vehicles for my 2 favorite food groups: fat and salt. Supper is a baked potato with butter, onion, sour cream and shredded cheese. Yum!

Shaun Brady was a beloved KC chef and member of the Irish community here. Last year, he was gunned down by teens when he attempted to stop the theft of his car outside his restaurant. The city is still mourning his loss and a cookbook celebrating his life was recently published to help aid his family. I never met him, but my dear friend Dave Eckert (a food/wine journalist) wrote about him often and they were good friends. During the last couple of years that my husband was still alive and living here, he unbeknownst to me blew through most of our money (dementia will do that). I was truly fearful that we would be homeless. Dave and his wife fed us/me for much of that dreadful insecure time. (I'm now recovered thanks to long-term care insurance and life insurance.) Every time Dave would go see Shaun, Shaun would send me food--and always his delicious scones. My copy of this book arrived yesterday.

She said when she brought them that she'd gotten them for her lunches at work and really liked them but had been eating them for a while and was getting tired of them. I've got 2 more to try--one is tuna and another salmon. I think the tuna is provencal or nicoise and the salmon is Moroccan.

I posted in the gift thread a while back about some tinned fish meals my sister had given me. I finally had one. This was delicious. I had it over a bed of spinach and home-grown tomato generously sprinkled with Omnivore Limone salt blend. If you are a hearty eater, you would likely want something else with it, but I am not, so this was a perfect meal for me. Look for more tomato meals. I am making trips to Topeka to tend to my sis and BIL's cat and garden while they are traveling. I picked a lot of tomatoes today but there are tons that will be ripe later this week. And so many green ones! I texted my sis that they are going to be harvesting tomatoes into December at the rate these are producing!

I found numerous threads about stand mixers, so picked this one at random. I've had a Kitchen Aid for quite a while but it got buried and not used in a long time. Determined to change that after the move, I dug it out yesterday to pack and take to the new place. OMG!! It either gained weight or I got weaker because I did not remember it being so heavy! I hope the bottom of the box doesn't fall out. I have ordered some of the mats that you put under appliances to make them easy to slide and hope that does the trick when I get it there and unpacked. I do not want to have to lift it again. My back!!

Yes, I know Tasting History has been mentioned here before, but you are right. Good enough to mention again!

@Katie Meadow, I have been doing the tomato/butter thing, too, only I'm putting it on rice. I even eat it for breakfast. There is something very comforting about it.

@Smithy I had to laugh at your bacon cooking in advance. I did the very same a few days ago. I had a bag of the pre-cooked stuff in the fridge with the intention of making a sandwich (still have great tomatoes to use) and wound up eating most of it for breakfast with a couple of pieces of cheese yesterday. LOL. I'll have to cook more bacon for a sandwich. Last night I pulled out my tenderloin & tots leftovers. I'd eaten about 1/4 of the sandwich Thursday night. I took meat off the 1/4 piece, heated it and a few tots in the toaster oven and put the meat on a fresh bun. Was great. And now, I've got enough for 2 more meals!!! Yikes. I'll get tired of it before I ever finish it.

No photos. Went to a local sports bar where an old friend tends bar. Had a couple of glasses of wine and a pork tenderloin sandwich with tots--all scratch made to order. Fatty, dreadfully unhealthy and delicious. And I have enough leftovers for 2 more meals.

@Honkman, I wouldn't have thought of apples and beans together, but now that I've seen it, I can't wait to try it. BST (spinach instead of lettuce) for me. Served with salt & vinegar chips.

Fried some bacon to use in salads and sandwiches this week. Then fried some potato and onion to use with leftover smoked sausage in a frittata for supper. No photo of the finished frittata because my bad hands completely mangled it. Tasted fine just looked like a mess.

Hot weather salad for supper. Spinach, blueberries, red onion, bacon, goat cheese.

Didn't take a photo of the final salad, but supper was a salad of these over spinach.

I have basically the same one, but not that brand. And it was no where near that expensive!! I think way under $20.

My dear sis and BIL are going out of town week after next. I went over to Topeka yesterday afternoon to get the lay of the land so I'll be able to go a couple of time while they are gone to replenish cat food, bird food, water the garden, etc. Then we all drove back to Lawrence, KS for a quick bite to eat before I headed back home. None of us had been to Fork & Tumbler but it had popped up on Facebook so we decided to give it a try. The website and FB page looked really great. It was not all that. We shared some of the small plates, which turned out to be enormous. We had the Fried bread with whipped cheese, Meatballs, Stuffed Squash Blossoms & Brussels and Crab Cakes. The bread/cheese and meatballs were good but everything really was just so-so. We won't be going back. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. We all have many leftovers. And I picked a few tomatoes at their house, so that's a good thing!!