Asparagus and goat cheese fettucine tonight and first of the season St Louis-style smoked ribs tomorrow for a bbq with friends along with strawberry shortcake for desert.

I am angling for eggs benedict for breakfast on Sunday morning. I think I'll get my wish.

Wish my mom was in town but we'll celebrate when she returns from vacation.

Goin' to SF Bacon Camp on Saturday.

We were gifted some strawberries today. Small ones, with amazing flavor. I'm thinking I need to go find some rhubarb and make something.

I just mixed up some dough for an herb bread (with fresh thyme and rosemary), and I'll probably make a loaf of plain as well. For my family's Mother's Day dinner, I am contributing a jam tart made with apricot preserves. I am also making southern biscuits for my husband for breakfast tomorrow. It's going to be a great cooking weekend!

I'm thinking it might be time to revisit spaghetti carbonara, perhaps with some fresh asparagus thrown in for kicks.

I have about 2000lbs of bok choy from our csa (slight exaggeration) that I'm going to attempt to cook and consume this weekend.

Well, I just bought four beautiful leeks yesterday. I think they will find a home in some sort of tart, pie, or frittata tomorrow morning. I'll see what sort of inspiration strikes!

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I bought oyster mushrooms, chinese chives, tamarind paste, tomato and thai basil. Going to make Vietnamese hot and sour soup, just need the pineapple...

Chana Masala from Smitten Kitchen. I've not had too much luck cooking Indian before--here's hoping things turn around.

Planning to bake something for the first pool party of the season.

I think I'm done cooking for the weekend, and it's only Friday night. It was Mom's birthday today, so I invited her and my sister over for an appetizer feast --- Mom's favorite way to dine! I made:
- red pepper hummus
- goat cheese topped with tapenade and basil oil
- chicken liver paté, served with sliced apple, dried cranberries, and arugula
- smoked paprika glazed almonds
- mushroom tartlets. These are like very rich little quiches: pastry baked with mushrooms in a sherry-cream base
- figs stuffed with goat cheese and baked, then strewn with basil chiffonade
- crudités: cucumber, grape tomatoes, blanched broccoli, blanched green beans, carrots
- a warm baguette

And my sister made dessert: a gorgeous lemon mousse tart with raspberries. Add a glass of Pimm's with club soda and homemade grapefruit syrup, and what a lovely summery table it was!

Now I'm sitting with my feet up, enjoying the quiet of the night and not doing the dishes. Not just yet.

A big pot of chili! It's going to snow tonight in Mpls! Maybe some brownies or chocolate chip cookies later on.

Later this weekend:

fry up some leftover lemon risotto into arancini
chopped miso salad
Thomas Keller's parisian gnocchi so we can eat it with the rest of the morels, chicken-of-the-woods, and oyster mushrooms that we foraged last weekend.

Why can't I get bullet points to show??

Just did butterscotch pots de creme today, this weekend english muffins and some banana muffins and a strawberry rhubarb something.

Roast leg of lamb, marinated in lemon, mint and garlic; lemon roast potatoes and grilled eggplant & zucchini; lemon olive oil cake (made with some lemon-scented olive oil).

Mmm, morels... speaking of which, I was really surprised to learn this week that morels must be cooked -- if they are not cooked, they are poisonous... did anyone else know that?

Asparagus risotto! My favorite. I hope there is rhubarb at the farmers market when I get there. If so, I'll make syrup.

I woke up to pouring rain so it's a split pea soup making and chocolate cookie baking day - would love to do something with asparagus but don't have the ambition yet to go to the farm stand.

I won't get much of a chance to cook-working all weekend. But, I do plan to make a batch of Baked's Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins and Foster's Market Blueberriest Muffins, both for the freezer. We're having pork chops tonight, and I thought I'd make Taste of Home's paprika potatoes and beans to go with it.

I made some baby bok choy that I posted to my blog... also looking to make a honey cake from Smitten Kitchen for Mother's Day tomorrow! Heading out to the farmer's market now to see what other inspiration strikes.

Our moms are far away and my hubby works tomorrow, so no Sunday festivities here. I want to make a cream cheese/lemon/strawberry tart, but I keep eating all the strawberries before I manage to make pate brisee.

Later today I am doing a tour of my CSA farm so meals will depend on what I bring home from that trip.

Right now some small apple pies, kind of a spur of the moment decision. It has turned cool & rainy suddenly, and I have a big pile of apples that have begun to wrinkle.

No Moms anywhere near here so these are just for me! And whoever drops by...

I've had a terrible week, so I'm feeling supremely lazy this weekend. I'll probably make a Big Pancake with ginger syrup for breakfast tomorrow morning, and the rest of my sustenance this weekend will probably come from cast iron skillet pizza (using Whole Foods pre-made dough), leftover sloppy joes on toasted sourdough rolls and microwave popcorn and Coke Zero. I know, I'm hideous...don't look at me.

Tonight, chicken with apricots and almonds over coriander and sultana rice. Tomorrow, the husb is planning on slow-grilling a herby leg of lamb we bought today from the butcher on our street, which should go a few days. I'll probably make up a batch of granola too, since last weekend's was so popular.

Having just randomly piled shrimp on sopas and liked it, I'm serenely contemplating what could be done for brunch sopas. I'm thinking of a shrimp-egg-cojito scramble on sopas with cilantro-lime sauce (not in the mood to poach eggs for Benedict-style).

just woke up to a sunny but brisk new england day, it is beautiful! i have some fresh asparagus and greens from the market and am going to make a german potato salad and some sausages on the grill for mom later on. : )

Baked some bread yesterday, hoping to make some cookies today and probably the 'virginal' chicken-on-the-bundt pan tonight for dinner. Too busy grading to go see Mom, unfortunately :P

I got a food processor for Mother's Day! So, I initiated it by making pesto. It was so good - walnuts and I added a little mint for some zing!

I miss my mama and wish I were cooking for her this weekend, but alas, she's in Florida and I'm in Baltimore.

We did Mom's Day with my boyfriend's family last night. They did beef roast and fixin's, so we vegans brought a casserole side to accompany: Veganomicon's cauliflower and mushroom pot pie with kalamata biscuit crust. Whoamygod. So good!

I am baking the strawberry tart from last week for mother's day and lemony zucchini & goat cheese pizzas on homemade pizza dough that I froze several weeks ago. (I used half all-purpose/half WW flour with great success!)

The shrimp-egg-sope adventure (w/ cilantro-citrus sauce) has now been named Eggs Scholastica.

Oh I too cannot wait for our Farmers Market to open - our kids are even waiting with excitement! Today I made a yummy Greek pasta salad for my mom's lunch get-together and it was awesome. I really wanted to knock the socks off of everyone with pasta made from our favorite Kamut Khorasan Wheat - but since we were fresh out, I used another type. It was very good even still :) Happy Mother's Day to all the mamas!

something green for sure! we had fresh favas for the first time in a spring ragout with asparagus and snap peas, tossed with butter, parmesan and pasta. inspired by alice waters the art of simple food. green and delicious!
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