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Up in the Lakes Region of NH for the week, pillaging my grandma’s garden to make fresh basil pesto, pasta primavera with zucchini, eggplant and squash, plus gorgeous green salads with tomato and cucumber. Summertime in New England is pretty glorious, I must say.
Posted on August 9, 2011 with 4 notes ()
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Backyard bliss at a housewarming party in Clinton Hill. What a nice weekend it was.
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Life at the beach is conducive to cooking for three reasons:
1.) Food just seems to taste better after a long salty day,
2.) There’s not much else to do when the sun goes down, and
3.) There’s no good way for me to get to a restaurant.
And while I may not have all my fancy gadgets here, I can still make it happen. Handmaking hummus with a potato masher as opposed to my Cuisinart made me feel a bit like a pilgrim from like the 1920s, albeit a hummus-eating pilgrim. Bonus pilgrim points because I soaked the chickpeas overnight instead of popping open a can. I also made heirloom cherry tomato tabouleh by soaking bulghur and chopping up herbs grown at home (yet more P-points). I grated the carrots for the Moroccan Carrot Salad by hand which took about 300 times longer than it would’ve had I zipped them through a food processor, but I got a good workout and the results were so sweet that I really can’t complain.
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