Happy Memorial Day weekend! Are you gardening? (This is the traditional time to put in tomatoes in the northern part of the US.) Are you having a picnic? Most importantly, what's cooking this weekend? Here's a look back at The Kitchn's past week, with plenty of links to good eating, drinking, and summer cooking.
What's Cooking This Weekend?
Weekend of May 23-25, 2009
• It's the final week of the Kitchen Cure! Are you planning a party, or at least a casual dinner party or open house with friends? Just remember: the pleasure of food (and good company) is what it's all about. Even when the guests show up too early.
• Great recipes from the past week: roasted turkey breast with a delicious sauce, chipotle chicken fajitas, dairy-free smoothie, crispy, creamy French cannelé, truffled asparagus with eggs and Parmesan, vegan tamales, grilled fava beans, the list goes on and on...
• How to keep your pots scratch-free.
• Looking for a no potato salad picnic?
• What is your absolutely essential kitchen equipment?
• These kitchen gadgets look like toys.
• Do you eat your mistakes? What's in your snack drawer?
• Lazy margaritas and fabulously easy patio drinks. Oh, and a few good boxed wines, too.
• The debate over food miles continues.
• Is this device a medieval torture implement or a kitchen gadget from Bed, Bath, and Beyond?
• You should eat more iceberg lettuce.
• Have you ever eaten a whole plate of Korean short ribs, grilled to perfection?
• One last recipe for a summer brunch: strawberry sour cream scones with a crumbly, sugary sweet topping. Perfect.
Happy weekend! Come back Sunday for Dana's Weekend Meditation and we'll see you Tuesday when we resume regular posting.
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Made the first cobbler of the season. South Carolina peaches, frozen blackberries and slivered almonds.
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I'm making gnocchi this weekend from the recipe at Smitten Kitchen. It uses a grater instead of a ricer (which I don't have). This will be a totally new experiment for me, but I grabbed some basil at the farmer's market this morning so hopefully, 7 hours from now I'll be having pesto gnocchi. I'm also throwing together a batch of Orangette's granola.
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Basil! That's what I meant to get today when I was out. Tonight, pasta with tomatoes and chickpeas, from a Cooking Light recipe. Tomorrow our favorite grilled veggie sandwiches, though we haven't filled the tank yet for the grill to actually work. Gardened for hours yesterday in our community garden plot; put up tomato cages today. Fingers firmly crossed...
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I'm getting everything into the garden this weekend. And crossing my fingers that last week was the last of the frost! (Yes, we were still getting overnight frost in the Albany, NY area.)
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Going to a Picnic in Central Park with some friends;
making a salad with beets, watercress, oranges, bluecheese and walnuts.
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A lot of cooking this weekend. But what is occupying my mind is the hunt for a really good black bean based veggie burger recipe. I'm thinking some mix of black beans, brown rice, extra sharp cheddar, and egg as the base. But from there? Liquid smoke? Cumin? Lime juice?
Might try the rhubarb syrup featured last week.
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cmcinnyc, I vote cumin for sure. I'm leary of liquid smoke, a lot of chemicals plus it can overpower better tasting ingredients. What about tossing in some green onion?
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We had ribeye tonight, with couscous, borscht, salad compiled with ingredients from a friend's garden, and then pound cake and a delicious pomegranate/chocolate chip ice cream. Cocktail was ginger vodka with lots of lemon and lime, and white wines with dinner. I don't think we or our guests could have been happier.
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we have been going bbq nuts! this is our first year not living in an apartment, so we've been grilling every chance we get. friday we we grilled chicken breasts with bbq sauce and corn on the cob with a shaved zucchini salad on the side. saturday we had a friend over and made the korean short ribs posted on here earlier this week. amazing!!!! we also grilled pork chops, garlic bread, and spinach in a foil bag. greens in a foil bag on the grill are so tasty! today we'll be grilling more pork chops with asparagus and a french potato salad on the side. we'll also grill a couple of chicken breasts with a mediterranean paste to have cold with salad for tomorrow night's dinner.
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Great tomatoes, basil from the garden, real salt, pepper and the best EVOO I could afford (used for special occaisions... of which a good tomato is one!). Delish.
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PS I would kill for a cold german potato salad right now...
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@squirrelly, YES! Green onion sounds just right. I'm going for a hearty flavor that's got some zing without being too spicy for the 3-year-old. And this talk of potato salad has me revising my side dish notions...
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teriyaki on the grill. don't make it often due to the sodium but man is it delish.
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Been raining all weekend in Orlando, so we've had to nix the BBQ plans. Doing lots of baking to make up for it.
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