mmmm yes please.

[moominmolly]

Simple food that has made my life better this week:

* A costco-sized bag of smoked salmon at work, with a sippy cup of lemon juice and some fresh dill for garnish
* Sauerkraut made by rising_moon and dreda with meat CSA hot dogs
* Raspberries by the quart with Natalie
* Some crazy marinated greens that ceelove made from our backyard, at a picnic IN our backyard

Comments

[harimad]

Half a happy pig in my freezer. Well, it used to be half a one. We've eaten about 1/3 of it, so about one third of a happy pig.

It's not simple food. Many of the cuts have a lot more fat than what we get in the supermarket and I'm experimenting with charcuterie. So I need to learn to use my (never-used) grill as a smoker. Definitely not simple.

But very, very welcome.

[moominmolly]

Ooh! Don't get me wrong, I also like complicated projects, and this definitely sounds like one. :)

We always used to get half a cow every year (from a close friend who raised them). I miss that! Some day I will clean enough of the house to get to own a chest freezer. :)

[veek]

Meanwhile, you're welcome to some of mine. :)

[harimad]

Somehow I already figured that you liked complicated as well. But since you asked about -simple- food I wanted to publicly recognize I was going off-topic.

Simple is the pig heart I'm going to slice, spice, and fry for dinner. The Critters think that chicken hearts are the world's best treat so let's see if they branch out.

[yagagriswold]

TJ's smoked herring has been my salvation this spring. Also: the discovery that I can use the toaster over to roast vegetables.

Last night's farmers market score was forellenschluss from Kimball Farms.

[moominmolly]

...you can use the toaster oven to roast vegetables!

You totally just changed my life right there.

[harimad]

You totally just changed my life right there.

???

[moominmolly]

...I find that questions that contain words are much easier to answer!

[moominmolly]

Oh! Highland Kitchen + yagagriswold mentioning roasting vegetables = I should try to make HK's buffalo brussels sprouts with fresh sprouts this summer!

Also, man, that chicken looks good.

[moominmolly]

Oh they are sooooo good. Brussels sprouts, halved and perfectly roasted, and then deep fried and served with buffalo sauce. Hands down my favorite thing on their menu.

[veek]

Blue Juliette cheese, local to Victoria BC, that makes me think of you every single time I eat it (which has been every day this week). It's a blue goat cheese. Yes, I did just say that.

Grapes faintly resembling muscat, but seedless.

BC oysters, fried.

[moominmolly]

Blue goat cheese? ....

If I open my mouth very, very wide, do you think you could toss some in?

[veek]

Oh god I wish.

[bluepapercup]

I need to know if you're eating the grapes and the cheese at the same time so I can be completely and thoroughly awed by your food. ;)

[bluepapercup]

Red Lentil Kofte! Do you think it would work to substitute millet for the bulgar?

[bluepapercup]

It's a deal! Maybe Sunday, or next week some time. :)