In today’s Seasonal Pantry, which you can read here, I invite readers to share what will be on the table today. So, here’s your chance, tell us what’s on the menu and where you got the ingredients.
French Breakfast Radishes
We can thank Luther Burbank for the Santa Rosa Plum, arguably the best plum in the world.
I’ll start: I’ve made a salad of green beans, potatoes, radishes, cucumbers, red onions and hard boiled eggs and dressed it with lemon-parsley vinaigrette. Alongside, I’ll have Pepper Road Ranch chicken, with Santa Rosa plums for dessert. Green beans are from The Patch, potatoes and onions from Armstrong Valley Farm, cucumbers from Ma & Pa’s Garden, radishes from First Light Farm and the eggs from the hens who live next door. Santa Rosa plums are from Rainbow’s End Farm.
Linda Nygaard
Hi Michele! I made 2 pies…one blueberry and one peach to take to a friend’s river cabin (all butter crust of course!)….just us girls and we are grillin! We call this day, every year, Girls Can Grill. Also made a Caprese salad and a melon/mint salad. Will be taking some homemade cornbread, too. Others are bringing chicken to grill, ribs, and brisket. Sides include salads, of course, and corn on the cob from a friend’s garden. Gin and Tonic or a Salty Dog? Hmmmm….tough choice but I’ll make it!
July 4th, 2012 12:34 pm
RisaG
We had bialys for breakfast (Steve & I) that I got at Shop Rite. They rarely have them and they purchase them from somewhere in Brooklyn (my home town!) Trevor had a smoothie that I made with local strawberries, local raspberries (Donaldson’s Farms), plain yogurt, local honey (Alpha, NJ), and soymilk. Lunch was a pizza from a local place. Dinner will be hot dogs, avocado ranch dressing (homemade but the avocado is from CA, the creme fraiche was homemade and buttermilk from the supermarket), corn on the cob (local corn is not available yet so this was from Delaware), and baked beans (Goya canned – has jalapenos in it). Happy 4th, Michele.
July 4th, 2012 12:55 pm
Nancy
Asian Slaw for lunch: Napa cabbage, green onions, shredded carrot, jalapeno pepper, tons of cilantro. Dressing made of soy sauce, sesame oil, brown sugar, peanut butter, apple cider vinegar, rice vinegar, toasted sesame seeds, furukake, red chili flakes, red chile paste.
Everything from Andy’s Produce and my cupboards/fridge.
Later tonight, we’ll get less healthy and grill some spiral-cut hot dogs – http://www.chow.com/videos/collection/grilling
Happy Fourth!
July 4th, 2012 12:56 pm
Lisa
Salad Nicoise, Fried Chicken, Strawberry Shortcake!
July 4th, 2012 12:58 pm
joyce
Started my morning with a good old fashioned butter fried onoins and chicken livers solely for the high cholesterol! Sometimes it’s comfort foods that make life fun. yum yum
July 4th, 2012 1:15 pm
Judy
Started with the last few figs in the fridge.
Made a point of picking up a controlled dose of potato chips at 7-11. That and an enormous portion of watermelon are my nods to patriotic cuisine for today.
July 4th, 2012 3:56 pm
feast catering
delicious Hodo Soy Beanery Yuba and cabbage salad for lunch
BBQ for dinner – ribs, corn, mac & potato salad, peaches
Mom’s Apple Pie a la mode for dessert
Mmmmmmmm……..
Great blog topic
July 4th, 2012 4:52 pm
Terry Oden
The highlight of my Independence Day was lunch: a red, white, and blue smoothie. The red was comprised of strawberries and raspberries; the blue, of blueberries and boysenberries; the white, of Clover organic yogurt. Of course, once it was “smoothied,” it was purple. And very tasty.
July 4th, 2012 9:09 pm
Dominique
cherries from the market today, EGB farms. bings are sweet and firm. rib eye steak, potatoes and beautiful red onions from Armstrong farms in my green salad (bruno’s vinagriette), santa rosa plums from twin peaks farms, cherries, beer, wine, cherries, chips, wine, wine! read a short MFK Fischer book. sleep, sleep, bake bake tomorrow.
July 4th, 2012 9:39 pm
Joan Simon
Blueberries and yogurt for breakfast – with scone and apricot jam
Egg salad sandwich for lunch- doesn’t get more retro American for me.
Dinner- Steak with grilled shiitakes/onion mix to give it some NorCal flair, fresh corn with organic unsalted butter to let the sugar come through, sliced tomatoes with basil.
So glad I live in Sonoma.
July 4th, 2012 10:06 pm
Dennis
We had an assortment of Franco’s sausages (Argentine chorizo, Toscana and Polish) with grilled Peter Pan and Costata Romanesco squash from my garden and a potato salad with potatoes from parts unknown. Simple and delicious.
July 4th, 2012 10:22 pm
Paul Doxey
Today, Fourth of July leftovers. Homemade potato salad (baby reds, celery, chives, radish, boiled egg, mustard, mayonaise and high vin. Grilled vegetable medley and corn. Green salad. Tecate and lime. No sausages remain.
July 5th, 2012 7:19 am
Nicolle
Today we’ll eat the leftover potato salad –scallions, radishes, Italian parsley, with lemon-mustard vinaigrette (alas, everything is from the Winn Dixie except the thyme, from my garden). Also leftover gazpacho with tomatoes and cukes from the Uni of Southern Mississippi farmer’s market, garlic, serrano pepper, green pepper from Winn Dixie, and avocado from La Veracruzana (local Mexican market). That will be lunch. Tonight we’ll eat the stuffed zucchini from my friend Nell’s garden. Tom stuffed it with the innards plus leftover Papa John’s pizza that he toasted and chopped up, then sauteed with ground ginger, cardamom, and coriander. That, with a pork chop and some green salad, will be dinner. Watermelon throughout the day from Uni of Southern Mississippi farmer’s market, too. Now I’m hungry: time for breakfast #2 (#1 was oatmeal with chopped honey mango, topped with goat milk from my friend Missy’s farm–delicious!!).
July 5th, 2012 8:56 am
Lynette Kronick
I missed this post on the Fourth, but I’ll tell you what I ate. My friend in Kentfield had a barbeque, and she got me a handmade veggie burger, which was the best veggie burger I have ever eaten, from Woodland’s Market. In addition to the burger, we had potato salad and other salads, and I brought a Kozslowski Boysenberry Pie, which I had to drive all over town to find. All of this was washed down with Mazzocco’s Briar Zin (one of my personal favorites), a Passalacqua Pinot Noir, and of course, my one obligatory red, white, and blue Budweiser.
July 5th, 2012 9:27 am