Making yogurt! http://abcdsofcooking.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-make-yogurt-two-ways.html

Doing something with a bag of tomatillos from the farmer's market last night!

Looking forward to making some Catalan-style sauteed chard tonight, with pine nuts, raisins, and lots of garlic. Will probably roast up a couple garnet yams as well. Oh, and I've got a block of super-firm tofu to use up! Sounds like dinner =)

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I have been thinking of that BLT salad since it was posted. I think I will try it without the L, and just make a BT and bread salad.

Burgers! I pretty much eat grilled food as much as possible during the summer.

(Also, while looking for novel ways to jazz up burgers, I found this "How to" guide for grilling them. Am I the only one who didn't know some of this stuff -- like that over-handling meat makes for tough burgers?)

http://www.shop.com/guides/how to grill great burgers

Crispy pork tacos tonight and grilled hangar steak and mushrooms salad tomorrow.

Heat? What heat? Here in Seattle we've had one day above 75 degrees in the past 275 days. And that day was two days ago. Consequently I don't feel badly about using my oven and turning some of that lovely fresh fruit from the farmer's market into delicious pies. Mmm... strawberry - rhubarb pie...

deviled quail eggs! grilled zucchini and squash. and whatever my csa brings me tomorrow. hate this heat, but love the produce this time of year.

Working in the garden all weekend so that I can have tomatoes too!!! And I just got a new Weber grill to cook up all the veggies...

But in between piles of dirt, I'm being treated to Saturday mimosa brunch with passed canapes... so excited. :)

Making more ice cream (mmm, Bailey's) and I've gotta do something with all this zucchini!

I've got my first tomato turning yellow now, but lots and lots more little green ones to follow.

Cold soba with grilled mushrooms tonight. A double batch of sea salt chocolate chip cookies this weekend.

Pickling! Carrots, cucumbers, and snap peas. I also plan to make your Potato, Squash, and Goat Cheese Gratin: http://www.thekitchn.com/thekitchn/main-dish/recipe-potato-squash-and-goat-cheese-gratin-090647

Right now I've got brisket in the slow cooker for tacos with pickled onions and mmm... a cold Negra Modelo. Tomorrow I'm thinking of some pea raviolis with the CSA share peas I just snagged... Sunday I'm making my own graham crackers and marshmallows for a family vacation next week. Oooh! And brown butter rice krispy treats for both the fam and the houseguests crashing our pad while we're out. Whew!

Homemade fat free mango cardamom gelato & gluten free banana carob cake!

blueberry pancakes, steak and 3 bean salad w/corn, and peanut chicken w/sesame brocoli slaw. Might bake some bread, but it is pretty hot here.

Onigiri tonight and large batches of Rhubard Jam for next week's 4th of July trip to the mountains!

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Cherry and Nectarine pie, with amaretto, brown sugar, cardamom, cinnamon and ginger.

BBQing with two of our favorite ingredients! Beer and chicken:

http://www.servedraw.com/2010/06/beerbq-just-add-chicken/

grilled pizza and suntea over here.

Writing shopping lists for our 4th of July barbecue and eating whatever's left in the fridge and cupboards. Mmm, that'll be rocket with a side of rocket then :s

This heat has just wrecked my energy. And if I were a fan of cold food, I'd never turn on the oven again until fall.

SO, I plan on making lemon thyme chicken, scalloped potatoes, some strawberry lemonade bars, and a meditteranean orzo salad this weekend.

Cool food: a frittata to eat room temp, some Japanese-style potato salad, ratatouille in the crockpot (and we'll eat it room temp). I have to head out for an eggplant. Perils of Fresh Direct: the eggplant I ordered was smaller than my hand! Oops!

empanadas, spicy pork sausage and a salad with fresh cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and dill last night. for tonight, fresh fish grilled, salad and potato salad. heading off to the farmer's market now.

Oh! Hit the USDA farmers market and got green tomatoes (For what else? FRied green tomatoes), White corn, zucchini, sweet athena cantaloupe and red and white spring onions.

Made a sour cherry and buttermilk cake last night served it with the cantaloupe & cherry yogurt i mixed up using greek yogurt and the remaining cherries for breakfast this morning. And will be doing the Post's vegetable braise w/ bacon using the spring onions. recipe: http://projects.washingtonpost.com/recipes/2010/06/23/vegetable-braise-bacon/

Yesterday I made cold soba noodles with soy sauce, sesame oil, rice wine vinegar, and sliced radishes; vanilla ice cream with bits of chocolate-dipped pretzels; and citrus broccoli salad, from Bryant Terry's Vegan Soul Kitchen (an excellent cook book!).

Too bad I can't really grill in my apartment, although there's always my George Foreman...

Phoenix1027, your pie sounds amazing!

Pretzel rolls proofing right now. Going to run out for some spicy mustard, ham, cheese, and cold beers for a picnic later.

I am in the same boat as Pandora--the Seattle murk has finally warmed up to tepid. I am thinking of smoking turkey breasts on the Weber -- it may get to 72 today if we are lucky. Now I just gotta find some turkey breasts...and the Sun would be good too.

Sorry, I meant Paladin, not Pandora.

I had two tiny yellow taxi tomatoes ready to eat, so last night I served them with some mozzarella and basil, Galileo melon and water melon with feta & sea salts, and freshly picked squash blossoms from the garden stuffed with cheese and fried. For the main course, I tried a new recipe from La Cucina Italiana - shrimp and mango salad with avocado and fennel. Dessert was from one of your links posts earlier - the Melon Salad from She Wears Many Hats (from Giada, actually).

It was a great meal!

Just made up some salad rolls with lettuce, soba, shredded carrot, peas, tofu marinated in a sweet chili sauce. They're really really, yummy. Going to do something with fresh local strawberries later tonight, to remind me why I never ever buy non-local strawberries... These ones are soooo good.

red velvet cupcakes tonight! I have a powerful hankering that daytime heat can't stop.
Easy dinner--salad from the garden decorated with borage and nasturtium flowers, pinto beans from the slow cooker, and grilled steak.
Tomorrow maybe some calabacitas....leftover pinto beans with summer squash and corn off the cob. If I'm ambitious I'll make some flour tortillas to go with it!

I made hot fudge sauce out at the campground yesterday. I'll never, ever do that again.

I'm doing a favorite family recipe for roast beef and gravy sandwiches today. The rub is salt, pepper, celery salt and onion powder.

Had a delicious steak salad last night--grilled skirt steak (from my uncle's ranch) with peas, radishes, and lettuce all from our garden!! For dessert I made strawberry shortcake with homemade biscuits and Hood strawberries. Leftovers tonight as we'll be busy working on our new patio today!

wow, @LauraJane- can I come live at your house? All of that sounds so, so good.

Pea ravioli- very unique!

we made mayonnaise from scratch for the first time (once by hand, a la julia child, and once by food processor) and used it to make bacon deviled eggs and a delicious potato salad!
mayo and deviled egg recipes here:
http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/06/27/kitchen-firsts-homemade-mayonnaise-bacon-deviled-eggs/

Thank you to whomever it was who mentioned the crock pot! I always forget about that fabulous cooking tool when it's hot out (usually, it's just my soup making tool of choice in cool months), but now that I've been reminded, I will pull it out and use it this week instead of the oven. The ten days straight of 90º has made me resort to a lot of sandwiches, but I'll pull out the crock pot and make myself something better tonight. :o)

As far as summer sandwiches go, though, I love the simple but yummy bread ripe tomato salt butter basil.

That should be 90º and a plus sign, but I guess the plus signs get deleted when posting.

I made bagels! they are so yummy, especially right out of the oven. and my husband is SO impressed. :) http://bit.ly/padML