Temps will be over 100 the next 3 days so we won't be heating the house up too much. Grilled sausage and veggie kabobs along with a tabouleh salad for a dinner tonight w/a friend who will be joining us and it will be finished off with a fig and walnut tart that I ordered from a local pie baker. Tomorrow we'll be at the State Fair so I can get my once/year Country Fair Cinnamon Roll and corn dog and then come home to slow cooker carnitas. Sunday I ordered some king salmon from the fish monger at the farmer's market so that will be prepared simply that evening. Looking forward to a weekend of good-eating!

I just made a rockin' quinoa summer salad with raw corn, zucchini, tomatoes, mini bell peppers, jalapenos, cilantro, and a lemon juice/olive oil vinaigrette. We'll be enjoying it all weekend long!

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My CSA starts next week, so my job is to rid the fridge of any and all perishable items to make way! The idea of braising anything in this weather makes me cringe, so perhaps I'll just be churning out some stock to be frozen.

Having a graduation party on Sunday to celebrate my PhD and my partner's MSW, so we're making potato salad with dill and pesto for a pasta salad with grilled veggies (onions and zucchini so far). Tonight I think it will be tofurkey kielbasa and cabbage with apple cider vinegar and caraway seeds. Tomorrow maybe calzones for dinner.

Ugh, I don't want to be cooking anything. I just want to be fed! However, we're going to a big picnic tomorrow...maybe I'll make a gigantic muffaletta sandwich to share, some homebrewed ginger beer, and pick up something to throw on the grill. Feeling very unambitious in the kitchen for sure.

Not much cooking, but a lot of sampling from the vendors at Pitchfork! They always have a great mix of local and organic restaurants and vendors there. Last year I gorged on vegetarian tempura and plan on doing it again :)

Gathered a variety of tomatoes, peppers, and eggplant from the neighborhood sellers to cook in olive oil with garlic and put atop whole wheat spaghetti.

Ohmygosh. A giant muffaletta sounds amazing.

Not sure about tonight. My husband said he might grill. He's going to a party tomorrow night, so I'm on my own and that meal is TBA. So is Sunday. But some paella sounds really good.

Cooking is so unappealing right now. My challenge these days is to feed my family and stock the fridge using mostly the blender, the crockpot, and the microwave. If only we could live on fruit.

Peach fuzz:
fresh peaches from the garden, vanilla ice cream, vodka, lime, whipped cream, and a straw.

Great times!

Something yummy, but healthy to satisfy my "salt tooth" -
homemade veggie chips!

I'm thinking about something simple for the weekend - maybe just Garlic Butter Fried Rice. Pantry cooking. It's cold out.

After making a Blueberry Plum Crumble, I'm hit with the baking bug despite the hot temperatures outside. My pie crust from scratch is resting in the refrigerator right now - the filling will depend on what looks best at the farmers' market this weekend!
I also tried my hand at pickling tonight to top our BBQ burgers with tomorrow night.

I just made TWO muffulettas! One is vegetarian (coulda been vegan but I just couldn't help adding some cheese) and one is muy, MUY meaty. Also made a gallon of iced tea and "Mexican Sangria" from the DesignSponge recipe and will be doing some brown butter rice krispy treats later tonight. All for our 3rd Annual "Pontoon-a-palooza" tomorrow.

peach blueberry crisp - cook's illustrated recipe!

I have promised to tackle mac-and-cheese and peach cobbler. Honestly, I think it's too hot to do much other than suck on frozen shrimp.

I'll be trying the first of (hopefully) many delicious ice cream recipes from a cookbook I bought in Japan the other week. Yuzu pepper ice cream! Umeshu ice cream! Honey ginger ice cream! Honey ginger is first on the list...

My daughter was working on jams, etc. to show at the fair and this apple marmalade turned out so well that I'm planning to make more. She's still looking for a fruit butter recipe (not apple as she took that last year).

I always have a hard time managing meals when the canning stuff is out. I'm thinking pork chops on the grill tomorrow with fruit leftover from this week.

Its hot here just like it is everywhere right now. I had an ice cream cone and some wheat thins for dinner. I'll do better tomorrow hopefully but everyone else's suggestions sound wonderful. Esp CallBob's Peach Fuzz

Just carrot cake, for a poolside birthday party tonight. Time to get out of the city! :)

Going to try and freeze half of the frosting for a batch of cupcakes next week... I've heard it's possible, I hope it survives.

hosting a big brunch sunday - but i'm just laying out sandwich fixins. too hot to cook!

we tried the thai-style drumsticks from smitten kitchen earlier this week, and i discovered that the idea for the sauce was great but i still hate drumsticks (childhood dislike that lingered)! so we're going to be slathering our adaptation of the sauce either on some bone-in skin-on chicken breasts, or perhaps on a stir-fry so we don't have to turn on the oven. so good! http://theweekendgourmande.wordpress.com/2010/07/17/kitchen-firsts-chicken-drumsticks-with-hoisin-glaze/

Penne w/Gorgonzola, Beets and Toasted Walnuts from the Union Square Cafe Cookbook

German Potato Salad from the New Classic Family Dinners Cookbook

A fried egg sandwich. I don't know why, but every Saturday afternoon, I really, really want a sandwich, and this week, it's fried egg with a runny yolk. But I think I may steal that giant muffaletta idea for next week's float trip!

Also making my second batch of sauerkraut. I was never a huge fan of kraut, other than a light topping for my reuben, but as it turns out, the homemade stuff is way, way better, and so easy.

If I can get myself to Trader Joe's, I will try those IKEA inspired cinnamon rolls.

But, today is hot, and I am lazy. I also need to use some miscellaneous stuff in the fridge, so going to make Chipotle Chicken Cheesesteaks and some corn on the cob with maybe some honey lime butter for dinner. Then I got inspired to make fruit daiquiris in advance in a freezer bag and am making some lemon ginger simple syrup to use with some white apricots I can't bring myself to eat.

Love lazy Saturdays!

I'm late to the party for this one!

Yesterday, I made the refrigerator pickles from The Foster's Market Cookbook & The Mothership Tomato Salad from Jamie At Home.

I've just finished baking a Banana cake for a baking group, and tonight, I'm making corn fritters as a side dish to have with supper.

I am always a sucker for a fabulous food photo, so I am making the yellow cake with milk chocolate buttercream from the Craft of Baking by Karen DiMasco.
Next week, her butterscotch pie....
It will be a caftan, not bikini, summer I fear.

to wrap up the weekend, i made my favorite muffins of all time - banana chocolate chip. this is a recipe i've been making for years. i adapted it to use whole wheat flour and less butter (but more chocolate chips!) and it's still AWESOME. i made a post about them here:
http://makingelectricity.blogspot.com/2010/07/favorites-week-kick-off-muffins.html