When Ms. Veronica Siehl mentioned making gazpacho today at the farmers’ market, I nearly raced home. It was the perfect solution. It’s so hot. The weather, not the gazpacho. I love making a giant bowl of gazpacho to keep in the fridge and eat all week. I make mine with lots of basil, and as much as I normally like spicy food, I’ve realized that spicy gazpacho just tastes like salsa, so I keep it mild, add lots of lemon juice and herbs. Delightful.
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Things to savor.
This is my attempt to record my recipes. I’m working on recipes to contribute to the upcoming Market Square Farmers’ Market cookbook. The problem is, I never use recipes. I love cookbooks, but I read them like novels, and then just throw things together. Trying to ask me for a recipe is like asking your Polish (or Italian, or Russian, or other stereotypically curmudgeonly) grandmother for a recipe. Ingredients go in, and come out dinner. But I love food, and for the most part, what I cook comes out well. And, perhaps for my own sake, if I had a recipe, I could recreate some of my dishes, with more precision. Or even teach K how to recreate them. My only hope is to literally write down each thing I do, as I do it. Otherwise, the recipe floats away in the haze of a food coma.
ps— If you live in the Knoxville vicinity and want to be a tester or recipe contributer for the cookbook, let me know.
My first homemade strawberry ice cream.
The one ideal thing about our sometimes less than ideal jobs is that K and I can eat late afternoon lunch together on the porch. Yum chicken Caesar salad.
