Lara tested, Lara approved. Which means nothing to you other than I liked ’em, and if you’ve got similiar tastes, you might like ’em too.
This healthy and flavorful salad of lettuce, roasted whole baby beets, crumbled goat cheese, sliced shallots, chopped peaches, walnuts, and slivers of fresh lime basil. Peaches are in season big time right now and they are out of this world (so, obviously, I put them in everything). Used up quite a few CSA share veggies in this puppy as well. So good by itself there’s no dressing required!
This delicious yellow watermelon margarita (in my favorite Texas chili pepper hand blown margarita glasses, of course!) rimmed with lime and sugar. Pretty sure I could drink an entire pitcher of these by myself.
{photo courtesy of this blog, because my dark-nighttime-kitchen shot of this meal looked nowhere near as appetizing as this dish really is}
This easy, healthy, and punchy shrimp pasta with lemon, garlic, spinach, tomatoes, and fresh herbs.
{photo courtesy of this blog because I haven’t taken pictures of the ones I made yet}
These super cheap, super easy, super quick, no bake, utterly divine black and white Oreo truffle balls I made for our second book club meeting for The Night Circus. I dressed ’em up with a topping of sparkly black sprinkles and placed them in white and black lace cupcake holders. Always a crowd pleaser.
{photo courtesy of this blog because, again, not my photo because I was too hungry to take a picture of it before I devoured it}
This tasty cilantro, lime, cayenne, and Parmesan roasted corn on the cob, which is a perfect side to pretty much any meal. And sweet corn season here is so good!! There’s so much delicious corn being grown around these parts, I can’t even contain myself. It’s fantastic plain too.
{photo courtesy of this blog}
This watermelon peach salad with lime basil because it’s fresh, unexpected, delicious, and I had all the ingredients on hand and it just sounded so darn good! And, of course, can’t let a good seasonal peach, watermelon, or bunch of lime basil go to waste!
{photo courtesy of this blog because I forgot to take pictures of my jars before they made their way into fridge storage}
This pickled veggie slaw (I dressed up the flavor by adding a squirt of sriracha and a large hanful of chopped cilantro to the vinegar mix), which is awesome for using up lots of different veggies (you can seriously use almost any julienned veggie in it), and tastes excellent as a salad topping, on sandwiches, for a snack…it’s good stuff.
And finally, there was this free chocolate tasting Ted and I went to at Hedonist Artisan Chocolates two Fridays ago. It was for a collection of chocolate truffles designed and made by a Hedonist chocolate intern (um, best job ever?) and English major that “celebrated the marriage of culinary and literary with five pun-derful and exclusive flavors.” I adored them all, but the one with cumin really stood out and packed a punch, and the one with peach was pretty bold too. Definitely a great flavor experience!
What have you been cooking lately?
