Fall is here with dark greens (green swiss chard - last week) , arugula, radishes, spinach, lettuce, and cauliflower. We're still getting tomatoes and zucchini, and this week
we got beautiful herbs (parsley and basil). It's time for pesto again!
Today we just finished the leftovers from
Crab, tomatoes and chard risotto I made last Friday. It looked beautiful and it's so easy because the crab meat, chard and tomatoes (just one or two cubed, for color) are added at the end.
A couple of weeks ago Tim made his famous
Jambalaya (brown rice, sausage, shrimp, tomatoes, herbs and a lot of hot peppers) and it was fantastic. It looked great too, don't you think? Well, it's gone, we ate it all.
For the vice-presidential debate party we had (we figured it'd be entertaining and light enough that we could have friends over to watch it with) I made
Ghivechi, a Romanian dish very much like ratatouille. I put to good use my new cast iron pot we got from Costco recently. The dish is quite easy: start on the stove by sauteing onion, garlic, celery, then add cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, zuchini, and whatever other veggies you might have, finish with tomatoes and a glass or two of red wine and stick it in the 375F oven for 30 minutes or until the veggies are done and the juices almost gone. Now it's time to top it with soem dark greens (I had red chard). This is it. It's so easy, all the work is in prepping and eating the stuff. Oh, I added a coupole of hot Italian sausages to the mix, but meat is truly optional. We dug in before I had the chance to take a picture.
Another thing that looks great is our new bike. We picked it up in
Tampa, Florida over a weekend (down and back up on I95 in about 49 hours). It was a long fast paced trip but we had fun ( I saw an orange mangrove!) and we saw Tim's old high school buddy Jeff and his family in Jacksonville. I hear marriages actually fall apart during trips like this (our friend Andrea's first question to me was "Are you guys still married?" Very funny!). The weekend after we went to Austin, TX for a conference Tim attended. We got to play tennis in 100 degree heat. We lasted from 9 till 9:30 am . It was brutal. Well, fall is here so I guess we won't complain about heat for some time.
we got beautiful herbs (parsley and basil). It's time for pesto again!
Today we just finished the leftovers from Crab, tomatoes and chard risotto I made last Friday. It looked beautiful and it's so easy because the crab meat, chard and tomatoes (just one or two cubed, for color) are added at the end.
A couple of weeks ago Tim made his famous Jambalaya (brown rice, sausage, shrimp, tomatoes, herbs and a lot of hot peppers) and it was fantastic. It looked great too, don't you think? Well, it's gone, we ate it all.
For the vice-presidential debate party we had (we figured it'd be entertaining and light enough that we could have friends over to watch it with) I made Ghivechi, a Romanian dish very much like ratatouille. I put to good use my new cast iron pot we got from Costco recently. The dish is quite easy: start on the stove by sauteing onion, garlic, celery, then add cabbage, potatoes, eggplant, zuchini, and whatever other veggies you might have, finish with tomatoes and a glass or two of red wine and stick it in the 375F oven for 30 minutes or until the veggies are done and the juices almost gone. Now it's time to top it with soem dark greens (I had red chard). This is it. It's so easy, all the work is in prepping and eating the stuff. Oh, I added a coupole of hot Italian sausages to the mix, but meat is truly optional. We dug in before I had the chance to take a picture.
Another thing that looks great is our new bike. We picked it up in 
Tampa, Florida over a weekend (down and back up on I95 in about 49 hours). It was a long fast paced trip but we had fun ( I saw an orange mangrove!) and we saw Tim's old high school buddy Jeff and his family in Jacksonville. I hear marriages actually fall apart during trips like this (our friend Andrea's first question to me was "Are you guys still married?" Very funny!). The weekend after we went to Austin, TX for a conference Tim attended. We got to play tennis in 100 degree heat. We lasted from 9 till 9:30 am . It was brutal. Well, fall is here so I guess we won't complain about heat for some time.
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