Weekend Wrap Up (July 23-25)

Most things slow down and get lazy in the summer- it must be the heat, since people in the South move slower in general. Tom's cooking has been no different, so my posts are going to be shorter as a result.

This past weekend, Tom wanted to use up some ingredients. So here we have some jars of stuff:

Blueberry Jam, Chicken Liver Pate, Pickles

Weekend Evaluation: I Don't Have Time To Bleed

We weren't at home much this weekend, like most summer weekends.  I guess it's a bad time to start documenting how much cooking you do when it's not a time for being indoors.

Besides, I have no room in the freezer for projects right now.  The project these days is to clear out the freezer; I got the chicken livers and mole out of there.  Maybe I'll have room for the ice cream maker soon, we were out of ice cream for the hottest days I can remember.

I haven't made breakfast for the both of us in weeks, and I'm missing that and making bread; but I'll have all winter to do that.

Weekend Evaluation: Taking a Relaxed Attitude Toward Cooking (and blog posts)

Not much to report here -  it was my birthday on Saturday, so didn't cook much except Sunday dinner.

Maybe I'll throw in some thoughts on restaurants, which all were good with few exceptions.

July Wrap-Up (July 1-17)

Happy Birthday Tom!

Hey all, sorry it's been awhile since I put up a post here (although Tom's been keeping up with it). Its summer, when we all get lazy (and in our case, busy). Plus, Tom hasn't been cooking too much, or that much interesting stuff, its mostly CSA vegetables that run our life during the summer, and this season its no different.

Weekend Evaluation: Owner of a Lonely Heart (aka Heart of the Sunrise)

This was the weekend of beef heart.  I've had a small beef heart in the freezer for months, so I decided it was time it come out of there.  To break it down into workable pieces of meat you have to trim away lots of silver skin and fat; which leaves the leanest meat you probably can find.

You'd think all of those uptight people who eat chicken breast and who've influenced our pork industry to breed out all of the fat from our pigs would love this cut....but oh yeah- they're scared of everything, so they wouldn't try heart.

This was also the first weekend of our vacation, so we were out a lot, and we went to Meatopia - a BBQ event on Governor's Island - marred by the unacceptable inclusion of Sixpoint beer.

Weekend Wrap-Up: Celebrate Your Country's Independence by Smoking a Small Piece of It.

I was planning on making hot dogs for a cookout at a friends house this week, so maybe this post would have been more interesting. When it got canceled I was sort of relieved to not have to try to make sausage with it 100 degrees out.
  

It didn't mean that I was going to let it stop me from using the smoker.

Weekend Wrap-Up: June 26-27: Potential Disaster

This past weekend, Tom and I moved, so I don't have any food to report on or review (unless the take-out Mexican and Indian food counts? Or the decent but still too expensive dinner at Quaint?).

As far as moves go, it was fairly smooth, thanks to a lot of help from Tom's parents and professional movers. But it was still stressful, and things still got misplaced, but I knew that the missing items would eventually turn up.