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Half a chicken on the grill with garlic chives, picked-it-this-morning lettuce for salad, and daiquiris made with fressssssh strawberries from the garden!

Sharp cheddar cheese, sliced apples, and popcorn, made in a heavy pot with realllll butter and just a little salt. It's a terrific combination of flavors. Pass the napkins.

Red curry w/ coconut rice, cauliflower and a couple of beers to get things kicked off. ahhhh....

baking some bread, just don't know what to bake yet. Any bread recipe that goes well with buckwheat flour?

we finally got some garlic scapes from our CSA! Also, strawberry ice cream with berries from our garden, grilled veggies, and salad with mint, radishes, cucumbers, feta, and harukei turnips.

spending weekend in NYC, so cooking is happening tonight: chicken salad with hummus! http://mangotomato.blogspot.com/2008/06/chicken-salad-with-twist.html

and now I'm off to make lemon curd (first time ever!): wish me luck

and here's the lemon curd result http://mangotomato.blogspot.com/2008/06/when-life-gives-you-lemons.html

I'm making a mini-batch of pesto with the first of the basil from my garden. The smell of newly picked basil tops is like nothing else!

Rare for me, I'm making something I've made before: http://coconutlime.blogspot.com/2008/04/smoky-mango-pulled-pork.html

Normally I try to make something new every day, but it was so good we can't stop thinking (and talking!) about it, so it is time for round two.

Italian beef sandwiches with sweet potato oven-baked fries. The rest of the rare beef is going into sandwiches for the car when we drive to Kentucky (from Illinois) tomorrow. I also hope to eat a lot of barbeque while in Kentucky next week.

Royal Blenheim Apricot and Frangipane tart for my dad's birthday (72!).

For anyone who enjoyed the broccoli-feta pasta sauce featured a few weeks ago, I found myself with a little left over, not enough to save for saucing pasta. I scrambled it with an egg and it was delicious! Not super attractive--the result looked like slightly mashed broccoflower--but very tasty.

Grilled flank steak in a "bloody mary marinade" courtesy of Sunset Magazine; arugula, blueberry and feta salad; and baking right now for later, plum and port tart. Hubby also whipped up some daquiris with fresh strawberries from the farmers market. Made me wish I was on an island.

Sharp and garlicky parsley pesto, rotini, sugar snap peas and spinach salad. scrumptious!