mmmm yes please.

[moominmolly]

Simple food that has made my life better this week:

* A costco-sized bag of smoked salmon at work, with a sippy cup of lemon juice and some fresh dill for garnish
* Sauerkraut made by rising_moon and dreda with meat CSA hot dogs
* Raspberries by the quart with Natalie
* Some crazy marinated greens that ceelove made from our backyard, at a picnic IN our backyard

Also in recent memory: local tomatoes that were out of this world even in June, buffalo mozarella with 'em, half a round of Saint Andre on crackers, sneaking in sushi in stolen time before a movie with dilletante, spinach salad with steak on top, all the sweet carrots I can get my hands on.

I make a bad vegetarian but a very very good me.

I see the farmers markets starting up and I want to ask: what's been good for you?

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[harimad.livejournal.com]

Half a happy pig in my freezer. Well, it used to be half a one. We've eaten about 1/3 of it, so about one third of a happy pig.

It's not simple food. Many of the cuts have a lot more fat than what we get in the supermarket and I'm experimenting with charcuterie. So I need to learn to use my (never-used) grill as a smoker. Definitely not simple.

But very, very welcome.

[yagagriswold.livejournal.com]

TJ's smoked herring has been my salvation this spring. Also: the discovery that I can use the toaster over to roast vegetables.

Last night's farmers market score was forellenschluss from Kimball Farms.

[cutieperson]

avocado, fresh corn, jalapeno, lime, cilantro salsa

this chicken

gnocchi with short ribs. it's one i should learn to make... Highland Kitchen's version is good, Pizzeria Posto's is INSANELY TASTY

[veek.livejournal.com]

Blue Juliette cheese, local to Victoria BC, that makes me think of you every single time I eat it (which has been every day this week). It's a blue goat cheese. Yes, I did just say that.

Grapes faintly resembling muscat, but seedless.

BC oysters, fried.

[regyt.livejournal.com]

Fresh asparagus on the grill, with nothing but a bit of olive oil and salt and pepper.

Sugar snap peas by the handful, just for munchies.

Mercimek (red lentil) kofte (http://paulaerbay2.wordpress.com/2007/11/15/mercimek-kofte-turkish-red-lentil-patties-recipe/) served wrapped in fresh lettuce leaves (I make the recipe with extra tomato and pepper pastes and olive oil - it's so tasty and crunchy in the cold lettuce!).

Hangar steak and homemade tabbouli.

Fresh mint tea with the tons of extra lovely mint I got when buying tabbouli ingredients.

And I just saw garlic scapes at last! It's time to eat many of those.

[bluepapercup]

I have rediscovered how delicious it is to have fish for breakfast! I've been toasting millet bagels and swiping them with cream cheese and piling on smoked trout and slices of fresh California avocado. Wondrous!

Fresh veggie stews with lots of Indian spices.

Bunches of kale, steamed and dressed with olive oil and black pepper. I eat the kale pretty much as fast as I can bring it into the house. Kale obsessed!

Sweet and succulent local yellow peaches. They are perfectly ripe and each one is a little fuzzy gem. *swoon*

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

This has been the weirdest goddamn year for weather, with the result that it is JUNE and we are just having cherries. But! We are having the first cherries! And nectarines! And I hear that pluots are just here I AM SO EXCITED \o/

[whynotkay.livejournal.com]

Cherries, peaches. Blueberries!

Homemade Goan sausages stewed with onions and whatever other veggies are lying around.

Fresh herbs tossed into anything.

Pickled thingies!

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

I have to say, a pint of caramel ice cream the day I'd had my most recent oral surgery was one of the most wonderful things I've ever put in my mouth.

[mesoterica.livejournal.com]

A friend and I just roasted up some farmers' market asparagus with fresh leeks and garlic scapes last week (we topped it all with a fried egg and some shaved parm, but honestly it'd still be delicious without if you're in a vegan mood), and I've been honest-to-goodness dreaming about it ever since.