This quick marinated cucumber salad is one of my favorite summertime side dishes. It keeps a few days in the fridge… not sure how long because I usually eat it up within 4 or 5 days. You can make this the day you’re serving it if you can allow a couple of hours for everything…
Vegetables
Gazpacho
It’s summer and the tomatoes are plentiful and good. I have tomatoes on toast for breakfast, sometimes with a scrambled egg but often just plain. I get to walk out and pick the ripest tomatoes for my breakfast, which is about as good as it gets. When the tomatoes become really plentiful, I make gazpacho….
Cauliflower Cheese
I was rereading The Shell Seekers, a lovely book, and they kept serving cauliflower cheese during the war. It made me want to try some. When I looked it up, it seems it is basically cooked cauliflower with a cheese sauce on top, sounded both easy and good. And I had a cauliflower sitting in…
Smashed Red Potatoes (aka Crash Hot Potatoes)
I’m not sure why these are called “crash hot potatoes” as they’re really more smashed. I saw someone else reference them on their blog, but can’t remember who. Then when I Googled the name, it seems that Ree Drummond got them from an Australian Jill Dupleix. I could have baked mine longer to get them…
Grilled Corn on the Cob
The easiest way I’ve found to grill corn on the cob is to pull the husks back toward the stalk, then remove the silk, then fold the husks back up to cover the ears somewhat. You don’t have to cover the corn back up all the way. Some charred corn tastes good. In fact, you…