4 posts tagged “summer”
It's a bit embarrassing how cheaply my good humor can be purchased by hot, sunny, summery weather, and being out in it. If you could see how sad I was on Monday (when it was cold and grey) and how happy I am today, you would laugh at me.
Tomatoes, mozarella, basil, balsamic vinegar (the old, thick stuff), salt, and pepper.
Crackers heaped with a spread made from roasted eggplant, toasted pine nuts, garlic, mint, and basil.
I had such plans for cooking this weekend -- I really love having mix and match things ready to pull out of the fridge during the week, when I'm feeling wrung out and feeble, especially when it's hot out. It's easy enough when summer is a little bit farther on and one can just eat tomatoes, basil, and mozzarella night after night after night. But this week we're still on vegetables that I prefer to cook first, and we've been out of the house most of yesterday and today, and now it's so hot and sticky I don't know that I can face much in the way of cooking anyhow. Phooey.
I did make a little Morrocan-ish carrot salad and started some tomatoes that are not worthy of eating raw to slow-roasting (in a 200 degree oven, so not much effect on the house temperature) for a grain or pasta salad. But that's not saying much, I'm afraid. Oh! Maybe I'll start some sprouts for curry later in the week. I would probably thank myself if I could just chop up a cabbage and make some cole slaw too, which after all doesn't require heating a damn thing, but right now I can't bring myself to lift a finger. I'm sure, too, that S. would love it if I made his favorite Greek cheese-stuffed peppers for our lunches, but... no.
A hot stick.
Also, naturally, me. I am sad to say that I have already used this joke before, you my new audience are not the first to hear it, but I did invent it all my very own brilliant self, the last time it was hot before the recent spate of cool and rainy followed by warm and sunny.* The cool wave did result in a little time lapse effect where our house remained lovely for half a day or more, holding back the heat. We of course chose this time to go out into the world and shop for groceries, and then (me) to cook some of them, meaning that now that I am ready to lounge about with my hot hot laptop on my lap, the inside air has caught up with the outside air, alas.
But! It is also, conveniently, now the evening, and so everything is catching up again. And it is really quite beautiful (and shockingly bug-free) outside, so I am going to go stand around in my slip and feel like a 1940s-era slattern and have something cold to drink. So there now.
*That came out more Gertrude Stein than I expected.
