homemade ice cream

Tea- birthday morning

Birthday pancakes

Sautéed veggies and rice

Birthday peach pie and blueberry ice cream

Stuffed mushrooms with vodka sauce pasta

Giant british chocolate bar

Dirt pudding with pie crust worms

Crown room pancake

: Zen salad

Peanuts and pretzel at the ball game

Cauliflower curry and homemade naan

Dad's grilled chicken and mom's mac and cheese

Dad's spaghetti with turkey meatballs and salad

Leong's Springfield Style Cashew Chicken

Breakfast for dinner! Matzo eggs and veggie sausage!

Mom's chocolate cake with whipped cream

Veggie buffalo wings, mac and cheese and peas and carrots

Dark chocolate chip cookie dough on the beater (and the spoon and the bowl)

Dark chocolate chip cookies

Leftover mac and cheese with peanut butter and grape jelly

Blueberry ice cream with Jen's tiny peach tart

Crown room pancake

Guiltless mashed potatoes, sweet and sour carrots and mixed grain casserole

Sweet potato pasta with garlic, butter , sprinkle cheese and maple pecans

Toasted french bread with butter and fried eggs

Butterfinger mini custard concrete

Homemade pizza with pineapple and Vodka dipping sauce (for the bread sticks and the crust)

Nutella toast and tea

Speedy Gonzalez: Spinach Enchilada, bean taco and rice

Veggie burger picnic smorgasbord

Oven broiled cheesy tomato and fresh tomato sauce

Dough balls

Beanball sub with rosemary and garlic fries

Pineapple- cashew- quinoa stir fry

This Sunday was national ice cream day. So I started the day off right with a little ice cream after lunch.

I spent the afternoon making a Midsummer Corn, Tomato, Fennel soup for our Tuesday night meal. I made the broth myself and added corn cobs to it. The recipe also has potatoes in it, a lot really, so I have no idea why they aren’t in the long title.

John hung up our new kitchen radio. As many of you know, music in the kitchen is key for our meals and cooking, so when the old one bit the dust we were in a sad state. After he drilled for a long time and finally got it up there I promptly asked, “What if I don’t like it there after all?” Yeah, not the response he was looking for. Good job hanging that puppy up, honey.

For dinner we had one of my favorite summer meals: mint and garlic tiny tomatoes (baked with olive oil in the oven), bread, and fresh mozzarella cheese. Salads too, of course. You can tell which salad is mine– NO CELERY. The things I do for love.

Here are the tomatoes– before baking. We used herbs from our garden and there are a few of own Juliet tomatoes thrown in there.

After baking…

I bought store bread because I am still studying Julia Child’s baguette recipe, so I felt a little like a failure there, but still it was all very tasty.

We talked about the tour de france and even did a conversation starter: “What new thing do you really like doing?” John said pizza/dvd night on Fridays (he likes seeing me excited to make our homemade pizza) and I said eating a more vegetarian diet, meditating, and working out at work. The tomatoes agreed.