Summer In Full Swing

What a bad blogger am I. . . it's been so long. In my defense, I'd be a better blogger if the part of me that's supposed to not lose her camera was better at not losing her camera. Alas. . .

But summer is in full swing in my house. The farmer's market is back on, which means summer foods are, too. Yummy barely cooked steak and fresh asparagus and dilled potato salad. Yummy spinach salads with watermelon (ok, so the watermelon is a cheat this early in the summer) and pine nuts and goat cheese. Salmon cakes over beds of spinach with fingerling potatoes, carmelized spring onions. All of those dishes made with herbs from the home garden and fresh veg from the farmers.


I love this season--partly because of bare feet, but mostly because food tastes like food again.

Tonight is chicken salad--50's style with mandarin orange slices and olives and pineapple--and for dessert? Homemade chocolate chip ice cream. The Houstons gave us an amazing White Mountain ice cream maker for our wedding. . . 5 long years ago and can you believe (with Dan loving ice cream as much as he does) that tonight is the first time we're using it? Ridiculous!