We are having an end-of-summer/engagement party tomorrow! So I am making crock pot pulled pork (hey, I work weekends), already made homemade white and cornmeal buns, am making peach cherry cobbler with cornmeal cream biscuit topping tomorrow, as well as an old-school/new-school relish tray with pickles, roasted red pepper, cucumbers, carrots, and salt-cured tomatoes. Plus more cherries and clementines and apple slices for snacking. *nom*

I love clean out the fridge nights. :) Especially when there is zucchini involved. Its amazing how food always comes out great on these nights. I will be doing most of the cooking this weekend. I will be making quinoa with mushroom gravy on saturday night and Pollo Sabroso on Sunday.

Grilled fish tacos tomorrow night! (The end of grilling season is, sadly, already in sight, so I want to make the most of it while I can...) And if we don't go to my in-laws' for dinner on Sunday, I'm making dosas.

I don't usually have a "clean-out" day! I try to do grocery shopping "europeen style!" meaning I buy what I need...that way I don't end up finding veggies or fruit growing fur in the fridge or meat that's turned grey!! Sometimes the best recipes are the ones that I end up whipping together after using a few ingredients from the fridge ;-)

Last night I made stuffed peppers filled with beans, tomatoes, mushrooms and cheese. Tonight I'm thinking fish tacos. Tomorrow will be burritos.

Last night was pan-seared snapper in a lemon-ginger marinade, green beans and rice on the side.

Tonight will be Thai-spiced chicken burgers with side of ginger-garlic stir-fried green beans.

My, my, it looks good everywhere ! Yesterday was chicken & spinach salad and peach cobbler.Tonight is sushi night with my parents (that will be a first for them) and I made dessert of course : coffee cake with raspberries, blackberries and red currants + the cardamom custard with blackberries & red currants from Cannelle et Vanille... Plenty of goodness...:-)

I decided I needed to BBQ hot dogs at least once before the summer's over, so that's on for tonight with cole slaw, I think. Tomorrow will be grilled chicken and a pasta salad (that's the cleaning-out-the-fridge dish of the weekend), with something peachy for dessert, maybe cobbler. I've got whole wheat bread dough rising right now, as well.

Just bought 20 lbs of early girl tomatoes at the Farmer's Market. Currently 10 lbs are slow roasting in the oven for soup. I am also planning on a panzanella and lots of tomato sandwiches.

I roasted Tennessee tomatoes to make salsa and tomato sauce.i grilled North Carolina peaches to freeze and made peach crisp. I love summer!

Pies, pies, pies and making a hefty batch of sweet & savory hand pies for the freezer.

Why is it everyone's always dreaming of the next season instead of enjoying what's plentiful in the here & now? So much sweeter to live in the moment. Tonight was ribeyes, marinated all afternoon in cajun seasoning, roasted sweet potatoes & zucchine boats topped with fresh cherry tomatoes & all the fixin's...a hot gooey mozzarella mess garnished w/fresh green onions still warm from the earth. All prepared on the grill & eaten pondside while listening to the trickle of the waterfall & watching the stars make an appearance. Dessert was fresh cantaloupe. Pure bliss.

I made fried chicken sushi using mochiko (Hawaiian-style) fried chicken and avocado. I also tried making tamagoyaki for the first time. The sushi was rad, and I'll do it again, and though the tamagoyaki was tasty, I'll have to keep practicing to make it pretty.

Friday, I made chicken with marjoram and port wine sauce over pasta.

Saturday: Helped my friend cater a wedding shower! Mexican themed, so there were chicken tacos, ceviche, spinach and mushroom quesadillas, pork nachos and more. For dinner, we went out for pizza.

Tonight I'm making the panzanella with cheese curds that was just on Serious Eats.

I've had a culinary revelation this weekend... a huge WOW!

In order to accompany the Old Bay seasoned turkey thighs (as per Sarah Carey's Thursday email from Martha Stewart Living), I decided to make couscous.

As I was getting the Old Bay out of the spice cabinet, I came across a little plastic bag labelled "CousCous Spice" from London's Spice Shop. The instructions said to add to dry couscous, and top with a drizzle of olive oil and squirt of lime.

Really, it was swoonable. Delicious beyond words. Delicate and complex. (apart from dry rosebuds, I'm not sure what is in it. All I can do is encourage people to try it!

http://www.thespiceshop.co.uk/product.php?p=974

(my e-shopping experience was very frustrating -- which is why this gem was pushed into a corner of my spice cupboard -- but this blend is worth it. Really.)