Good evening!
Today has been another busy one as I catch up from last week’s Canada Day Glo Out. I am happy to say by tomorrow at noon I will have over 25 orders shipped out. I hope to have everything shipped out by Wed/Thurs. I also have a big Ambrosia order to bake tomorrow and then market prep Thurs + Fri! Going to fly by as usual.
Two reasons why I was excited about dinner tonight:
1) CSA red potatoes
and
2) Cold dinner (it hit 37/99F today!)
I decided to make a cold pesto potato salad using up some of my vegan garlic scape pesto and other random things in the fridge!
First, I boiled about 10 small red potatoes for about 10-15 minutes until tender. As the potatoes were cooking, I chopped 1 large green onion, 1 garlic scape, and 2 tomatoes.
I put the tomatoes in a small bowl and added about 1/3 cup of the vegan garlic scape pesto and some paprika (for no other reason than just being obsessed with it).
I stirred this very well and added about 1 tbsp of cold-pressed sunflower oil to thin it out. I drained the taters and mixed everything in a bowl…
I also added some lemon zest and a couple squirts of lemon, along with tons of freshly ground black pepper and sprinkled of kosher sea salt.
In theory, it was the perfect dinner. That is my story and I am sticking to it.
In theory, it was awesome. In real life it was not so great.
Too much garlic + onion…and yes, dad there is such a thing as too much garlic! :lol:
It overpowered the entire dish and I just was not a fan. If I were to make this again I would not add scapes + green onion because the pesto is already very garlicky. I’m kind of stumped on this one…does anyone have any ideas on how to save this dish? Maybe it was the pesto mixed with he paprika too…
In other news, there will be no vampires near me tonight! Poor Eric is working late and will probably choke this down when he gets home. I will warn him, don’t worry! Then he will say something to the effect of, ‘If YOU don’t like it, it must be really, really bad!!!"’ I will agree.
What does a girl do when dinner is a flop in the taste department?
She makes a wicked delicious dessert and she forgets it happened. That is, until she enters the kitchen and sees all the dishes waiting to be cleaned.
Yes please.
Pretty please with a cherry on top!
(I can’t be the only one who used to say that to their mom?)
The ‘monster’ told me to make something sweet and to hurry it up! So demanding!
I made cake batter banana soft serve (1 frozen banana processed with 1.5 tbsp carob powder), and had it along with a cherry, banana, coconut butter mini loaf (drizzled with maple butter) and some cacao nibs.
I don’t fool around. This was pure bliss and I enjoyed every cold and sweet bite after a long and sticky day of work.
It melted soooo fast in this heat!
I also snapped more backyard pictures…
Presenting the things I love about our backyard…
[Warning: If you are scared of spiders I suggest you do not go any further!]
1) Flowers!
2) Basil I haven’t killed yet (although I was NOT pleased to see a spider web on my basil today!!)
3) Animal Homes
4) CHIPMUNKS!!!!!
Meet Alvin! :biggrin: I know, I know I am too original. He loves us because we fill up the bird feeder every week and he hangs upside down to eat from it.
Isn’t he beautiful? I totally want to train him to do tricks.
This is a MUST WATCH:
I laughed So hard when I watched that video!!! Totally was not expecting that! I also was totally creeped out by that man with the mask…!?!? :lol:
You can just tell that Alvin would be an excellent participant.
Presenting things I do not like about our backyard…
1) %#^$&^@&#*^*&#!!!!!
What nightmares are made of!
(No, I did not get this close, I zoomed and cropped a photo, but I’m sure you knew that!!!)
I like to pretend that these bugs do not really exist. I’m much happier as a result.
There are few things in this world better than banana soft serve and warm, soft, bready carbs…I do hope your banana bread was WARM!
Congrats on your hard work in the bakery :)
Awesome pictures in this post, Angela! Remind me, what camera do you have again? Is it the Cannon 40D EOS?
Anyway, that dessert looks amaaaazing! Have a great night!
I have a Canon 30D…shoot in raw and use Adobe Lightroom :) Its fabbbbulous.
Sometimes everyone has a dinner that becomes a bust. At least the dessert looked amazing.
Oh man, I can’t believe how hot it is there! So far so good in San Diego, it probably only hit 80 degrees F today or so… it can’t last forever though…
Bummre your dinner did not taste good. Atleast dessert was good. That video of the chipmunk is cute. Have a great night.
Ok the eats look good as usual and I love love love the pictures of the bugs! I’m a bit of a nature girl myself. And you should read this if you haven’t already seen it: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/06/health/06real.htm
When I saw it I smiled and thought so my proclivity for forest time is good for me! :)
I made almost that exact same thing last week. If you have some vegan mayonnaise lying around a little bit goes a long, long way to mellowing out the garlic scape flavor of the pesto.
That chipmunk video is too funny!! I might jump into someone’s pocket too if they had peanuts, he he.
Ahhhh cipmunks are natures hamsters! They’re so cute!!! :D
Sorry to hear dinner was not wonderful – at least your dessert was though!!!
I was just thinking that there need to be more potato salads made without mayo (=gross)… I love the idea of this and can’t wait to make it (sans paprika lol)
I fracking HATE bugs! My work sent my on a nature hike with my students and they all made fun of how squeamish I was. I don’t think I’m a prissy girl by any means, but put me around a wasp or a beetle and you bet I’m flipping out like I’m five!!!
I think if you tried warming the whole potato salad so that it cooks the garlic and onions, it would be way more mild. You could bake and have like a potato hash or just call it warm potato salad!
great idea!!
Ahhh Spiders! They totally creep me out! A few weeks ago, I was lifting the covers off my bed to go to sleep and was surprised to find a big spider crawling around! Definitely didn’t sleep in my bed that night :O
You are one HARD WORKER!! Awesome!
What a lovely backyard you have. I love Chipmunks. They are darling!
I love all the unique twists you put on banana soft serve. It’s so refreshing when it’s HOT HOT HOT. I’ve been making mine for breakfast with banana, PB, a little yogurt or almond milk and wheat germ. Yummy, filling and chilling. :)
Embrace the bugs!! They are part of your garden community and help it grow – they are just as afraid of you as you are of them. Learn to make friends with them – we are all creatures of the earth!
I tell myself this all the time and it doesn’t make my fear go away!
Your recipes follow the seasons so nicely… So whole some.
I made potato salad using just garlic scape pesto and potatoes, and it turned out pretty well! In the future, I think I’d add some tomatoes and a little lemon and s+p, too…that sounds good!
pretty flowers! & that dessert looks amazing….
hot day here too. where’s the rain?!