"Chris and Bob Neidecker" > wrote in
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> Picked up a lot of good tomatoes this weekend. On Friday night, I
> made a salad of coarsely chopped heirloom tomatoes tossed with a warm
> vinaigrette of bacon drippings, EVOO, sherry vinegar, and sauteed
> shallots. Served it over big homemade croutons (toasts, really).
> Topped it w/ crumbled bacon, crumbled French feta (the recipe called
> for blue cheese, but I prefer the feta, having tried it both ways),
> and lots of chopped fresh parsley and basil. Yum. My husband loves
> this salad so much that we just eat it in entree-sized portions now.
>
> Dessert was a fresh peach galette -- the recipe was from the New Joy
> of Cooking. I used the cornmeal butter pastry crust (they offered a
> few choices), and it was quite nice.
>
> This morning, we rode bikes (with our 3 kids, including the baby in
> his little trailor for the first time) to the farmer's market and got
> more tomatoes and basil and some fruit. We stopped at a great bakery
> and got a crusty baguette. My lunch today was just a chopped tomato
> (well, two!) with a small drizzle of EVOO, some salt & pepper, lots of
> fresh basil, and lots of bread for mopping up those wonderful juices.
> Hubby and the kids had BLTs. After lunch, I made a very small plum
> galette with some leftover pastry from Friday...that was very tasty,
> but the plums were quite tart,...a little vanilla ice cream on top
> solved that one!
>
> And after working a few hours on stripping the ugly old wallpaper from
> our bedroom, my husband and I went out for Thai food....we had a
> really spicy grilled beef, red onion, scallion appetizer w/ spicy lime
> dressing and cilantro, followed by fried softshell crabs with chili
> garlic sauce (two thumbs up!), and a dish of wide rice noodles with
> shrimp and ground chicken. That dish was supposed to have a spicy
> basil sauce, but the broth-y sauce wasn't spicy, and there was very
> little basil (the dish was ok, but we won't order that one again). It
> wasn't really a balanced Thai meal, we just felt like trying some
> dishes that we hadn't tried before.
>
> And on Sunday, we'll be going to some friends' house for dinner.
> We're bringing dessert, which will be All-Star Brownie Sundaes:
> vanilla ice cream and brownies (yes, Barb's) cut into star shapes w/
> small star cookie cutters (works pretty well; we just use a slightly
> larger pan so the brownies are a little flatter). Probably some
> chocolate sauce (my son will insist-- and this dessert was his idea),
> though I think some fresh raspberries would be nice.
>
> Chris

Ummm... You're gustatory weekend sounds delicious!

--
Wayne in Phoenix

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