Southwest Potatoes
With cilantro from the garden, grated cheddar on sale, and so forth, this really rocked. Today I'm making sweet corn and basmati rice salad. This is a winner that I make every summer. Here is the link: Sweet Corn and Basmati Rice Salad
Corn is ridiculously cheap these days, and I have pecans from Georgia relatives. Went to Whole Foods for the cress, as they always have some. Other supermarkets iffy.
Last night we had panzella, a tomato bread salad with mozzarella balls that also satisfies. I'm going to eat the soggy remains for lunch.
On the bad news front, the chipmunks and even the birds are eating the tomatoes. When I left for camp, there were lots of cherry tomatoes on the vines. None when I returned. Significant Other professed not to have eaten any. Somebody sure did, and it wasn't the neighbors. I have oregano for the masses, and good basil. Parsley has been tempermental this year, and mint is out of control. Lots of cleomes reseeded themselves from last year, and the Four O'Clock seed I gathered in Boston's North End is doing great. Garlic harvest sparse. Cukes growing like crazy. Every year is different and one learns to roll with the blows. Some of the tomatoes got the blight, and now we may not get any unless I can find a hiding place from the critters. Grrrrr. So it goes and whatever. And did I mention I gained all the weight I lost back?
The Cheeseparer
