Care and feeding
I had two recent food triumphs and one horrifying disaster.
For the past several summers, I have eaten several quarts of strawberries when they’re in season and then, once I’m tired of strawberries, I move on to cherries. Last summer I ate probably 6 bags of cherries.
Last weekend, I had 1.5 bags of cherries in the fridge and no desire to eat any more. But I did NOT want to waste all those beautiful little fruits. There are far more recipes on Epicurious for sour than sweet cherries, but I found this conserve, and HOLY MOLY. Dead easy, and I want to eat it on everything. Of course, so far I’ve only eaten it on biscuits.
We had fajitas for dinner one night, and there was left over chicken and sauteed onions and peppers. These I put into an omelet along with a little Cabot basil-tomato white cheddar.
Not only was it a TRIUMPH, it was the prettiest omelet I’ve made in years. Recommended!
The horror I won’t even link to. I figured that if I have been loving radish sandwiches so much, I should try a different radish recipe, so I tried one for a little radish salad with a rice vinegar dressing.
It tasted pretty good, actually, but the smell is SO AWFUL I can’t even tell you. And the smell gets into EVERYTHING. I seriously could not bring myself to eat it today, just because I kept getting a tiny whiff of it every time I opened my lunch bag. SO AWFUL.
Sadly, this means radishes need to go on temporary ban.
Oh my, does that conserve look yummy. I am going to make it and try it on ice cream. Also possibly french toast. Or maybe eat it out of the jar. I understand the radish ban, I am still on a three bean salad ban after an horrific incident at the U of C.
I do this too – have both strawberries and cherries with lunch today.
Sounds like it is time to move on to watermelon! Got a recipe for Watermelon mojitos (which Ken improved upon greatly):
Muddle 2 watermelon chunks with the juice of 1 lime in each glass. Stir in a handful of fresh mint leaves, then add 1 oz simple syrup, 1 oz white rum, 1/2 oz Midori, 1/2 oz Triple Sec and ice. Top with club soda.
Have gone through most of a watermelon this week.
One of the bonds holding Dingo and me together is our mutual hatred of watermelon.
SHUN!
Ah well, more for me. Ben joins you in the watermelon hatred club.