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Saffron rice pilaf with pine nuts.  Added andouille  sausage from Goose the Market mail order, and threw in some peas to add some color. Also had a tomato salad because this time of year I eat  them on a daily basis in one form or another.  No photos because I don't do food pictures well.

@huiray Thanks you for the reccomendation and I will order more items from Goose the Market when the weather gets cooler.  It took them two tries to get the sausages to me.  The first attempt was a striking demostration of what happens to sausages after two days in a UPS truck in the middle of an "excessive heat warning" period.

I must question the sanity of a person who buys sausages in the middle of July because, I have the bockwurst, I have the red cabbage, I have the potatoes for the warm potatoe salad, and I also have an un-airconditioned kitchen which is a heat sink even in the middle of winter.  I'll be baking a chicken thigh and steaming broccoli this evening, and by the time I'm done the kitchen will be pushing 90 degrees and the adjoining dining area in the 80's.

I have a fantasy where I recline in my recliner with cold frosty drinks at hand and at regular intervals handmaidens come by with trays of cheese, cold cuts. fruit, meat on skewers, etc.  Maybe a chamber music quartet nearby playing Haydn  string quartets while pleasant  light breezes waft over me.  Reality in So. Jersey in July & August in an unairconditioned house sucks.