I've got a big batch of shredded carrots and parsnips for some kinpira, and some prepped green peppers, shitakes, snap peas, and spring onions for a stir-fry. Other than that, I'm not sure -- oh and I just baked a batch of delicious vegan peanut butter cookies with cacao nibs.

http://operagirlcooks.com

Tonight: Goat chops and couscous with caramelized pears and Dawn's crostata, which I just baked (forelle pear version).

Sat: eating out.

Sun: we'll be sailing so traditional antipasto and fruits.

Making the beet, avocado and citrus salad from the Chez Panisse Cookbook using beets growing on my balcony.

Risotto with Peas and Mint from Patricia Wells' Vegetable Harvest Cookbook

i bought a bunch of swiss chard from the farmers market and have been making a stirfry of that with garlic, corn, carrots, and spaghetti noodles. my kitchens still a disaster from a not-good zucchini bread attempt.

I'd really like to see a healthy, sweet, yet moist and firm recipe for zucchini bread posted. I guess they were popular back in the 70s and most of the recipes have scary amounts of oil. I also don't like having to make two loaves at once.

Making a rhubarb bread with orange zest using rhubarb from the garden...also some vegetarian empanadas.

It's already Saturday here in Australia. I'm making Spicy Thai Red Curry Fish Laksa for this cold, winter weekend.

I just made pasta with patty pan squash, bacon, onions, and some white wine. It was tasty :)

Going to make a parnsip, jerusalem artichoke, squash, eggplant and eschallot tagine with ras el hanout and couscous for lunch. Then tonight am going to defrost and attack the Japanese dried mackerel I've been been too nervous to cook (as in unsure how)..tomorrow I'm looking forward to zucchini, mint and feta fritters for breakfast and mint chocolate chunk ice cream for breakfast-dessert.

I just put half a frozen, homemade pound cake in the fridge to thaw overnight. I've never made an icebox cake but there's no time like the present, right? I'm on a mission to get strawberries at the market tomorrow, and I have rhubarb syrup and the ingredients for a quick ganache. Sounds like an icebox cake, no? It will be delicious or it will be dreadful.

Theme: last week I tried ramp muffins. Alas, they were pretty bad. I keep trying stuff thinking "hey, why not?" Usually, this has happy results. But you can't win 'em all.

using all the fabulous summer veggies that came via our CSA box yesterday - tomatoes, spring onions, leeks, cukes - in anything that will have them. vietnamese noodles in broth with fresh veggies, fresh salads and some lovely scrambles for breakfast till they are out.

No cooking this weekend, just cheese and ham baguettes to be eaten atop a cliff edge later.

salads are definitely on my menu for this weekend, smoked salmon and some light and fruity dessert, no baking though...too hot for this kind of fun.

I just made 8 dozen cupcakes (chocolate w/ vanilla swiss meringue buttercream) for a 4 year old's birthday...doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING for the rest of the day!

VanBC--PLEASE come feed me!!! I wish I had been at your house on Friday night :)
tonight is a cookout with a salad of garden greens, shredded raw beets and carrots, radishes, spring onion, walnuts, and parm cheese, thai-marinated chicken thighs, and potato salad. We decided our dishes don't need to match since friends are coming over and half the fun of a potluck is diversity. I'm still trying to think of a good desert that i can make in the next hour! Maybe blackberry cobbler with blackberries I canned last year.

hi! not really a cooking weekend bc it's just. too. hot. but i did try out thekitchn's blackberry buttermilk ice cream, and it was delicious and just a touch sour, not too sweet, almost like a yogurt flavor. so yummy! i love this site. also, it IS possible to make ice cream without an ice cream maker, and without doing that whole double-ziploc-epsom/kosher salt-thing! just stick it in the freezer and stir vigorously every hour or so. thanks for the recipe! will be making it again very soon, i suspect...

Yesterday I made some no-knead bread and chocolate-walnut bread. The no-knead bread is going with the spinach-strawberry salad I'm making for dinner tonight, and the chocolate bread was a substitute this morning for the Sunday pancakes I usually make.

I also tried making yogurt for the first time, but that was a failure-- I'm going to try again today, probably a smaller batch.

Prepping for the work week with a big batch of fresh from the farmers' market arugula pesto with toasted walnuts, a ton of lemon zest, and parmesan cheese over casarecce pasta (the shape grabs on to all the pesto). !!

This weekend we tried making kimchi! A nice cucumber kimchi for the coming warm weather-- I was suprised how easy it was for a first time fermenter. Also we made some kimchi fried rice with some regular napa cabbage kimchi and it was easy and yummy!
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/06/06/kitchen-firsts-making-and-cooking-with-kimchi/

Barbequed ribs, garlic bread and strawberry shortcake.

I finally made this Quinoa Avocado salad! It was a perfect way to brighten up a rainy summer Saturday afternoon!

http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/recipe-review/seriously-good-quinoaavocado-salad-from-fine-cooking-106175

I also made my great-grandmother's peach cobbler recipe for the first time. It turned out really well, and there's just something special about family recipes.

scallop and shrimp ceviche courtesy of latina magazine

I had a bit of an impulse purchase problem at the grocery store this weekend (I didn't eat before shopping and had just taken a painkiller...because I'm a genius). SO I made maybe the best fruit salad of my life:
2 mangos
diced Calmyra figs
rehydrated hibiscus flowers (briefly soaked in water, rose water, and agave nectar)
blackberries

I'll be snacking on this all week!

I had a bit of time on my hands on Friday so I made pork tortellini and butternut squash ravioli, had the former for dinner with a pesto sauce and the latter with a burnt butter and sage sauce with garlic bread and salad. I have about five more meals worth of pasta now in the freezer.

On Saturday I made hummous, bruschetta, apple spice cake and salad for a picnic. It was potluck and other offerings were baguettes with brie, chicken liver pate, couscous, Morrocan chicken, marinated olives, cherry tomatoes...it was quite the feast and a lovely day to sit outside in a park.