We went traveling and I’m still catching up around here. We had a lovely two weeks in France. (My easiest culinary takeaway is to use more mustard in my salad dressing.) I’ve been back long enough to hit up our farmers market but am still spotty about capturing dinners. A few things:
- I had some store bought peaches (they won’t hit our farmers market until August or so) that all got ripe the same day so I made a peach crisp for two. I bought this cute vintage Corning Ware casserole on impulse many years ago and I think this is the first time I’ve used it. Hurray for surviving a few purges!
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Looking up something to do with turnips from the farmers market I found the Miso-maple sugar-snap, turnip and strawberry salad recipe from Tenderheart which conveniently called for snap peas and strawberries, which I’d also brought home. I served that with pasta with sausage, beans and spinach.
- Yesterday, I tried Tyler Florance’s reverse seared grilled chicken. You rub the chicken with spices and olive oil, then cook it in a low oven until it’s almost done, then finish it on the grill. His pitch is this takes the stress out of grilling chicken and making sure it’s cooked without burning it. This turned out really well, the chicken was moist and flavorful. Will definitely use this technique again. That was served olive oil/lemon/mustard/dill potato salad and snap peas, not photographed.
Great trip AND good to be home.
