Pest...OH!

Nothing too special here from dinner last night, but I think Yorke aka Y-nom wanted to show off her home-made pesto. Grilled chicken marinated in something good. Not totally sure, but Y-nom improvised. Turned out delish. Corn from the CSA also grilled in the husk. Y-nom likes hers off the cob, while K-nom prefers his on. Tomatoes from the CSA topped with salt, pepper and her home made pesto with basil from the CSA. We have a ton in the garden, but we figured we might as well use what we got from the co-op. It had a distinct licorice smell to it. Apparently, per the internet, some types of basil can have that. I didn't notice any licorice taste in the pesto though. Just good ol' olive oil, roasted pine nuts, and basil. Good stuff.

Friday Breakfast!

oh. yeah. To start the day, nommerstein cooked up some sausage, farm-eggs (added tomato and broccoli) and heated up some leftover hash in the oven for a breakfast that'll make you slap yo momma.

Chicken Hash!

Hash (no, you hippies) is basically a conglomerate of all things awesome pressed in a pan together and enjoyed in bulk. We cooked some red onion, green pepper, red pepper and jalapeno in garlic and olive oil, took out half the veggie mixture after five minutes, added chicken thighs and browned them on each side, then added some beer, H2O and lime juice to braise the chicken in for 30 minutes, pulled the chicken out and reduced the juice for a sauce, fried thinly sliced red potatoes in the same pan with olive oil, added the veggies and chicken hash to the potatoes and pressed it all down into a cake, flipping once. Then topped the servings with farmer's cheese and tomato. A most excellent creation!

Lamb Shanks

We had some folks over on Friday this past week.

Made some braised lamb shanks and Beer Can chicken. With a side of rice and Tatoes. Enjoy the Pics. 3.5 Noms.

BBQ chicken with grilled okra, red and golden potatoes and zucchini - grilled in a "grill pan" with olive oil, herbs de provence, salt, pepper and rosemary and sage from the garden. Veggies are from my garden and potatoes are from the CSA. I read that cooking okra whole like this will decrease the "sliminess" you get when you cut it before cooking. It didn't totally do away with it, but there was less when I cut it up to eat it.




This'un here is a serving of fennel salad made by Yorke. Red onions and fennel with mandarin oranges on top of butterleaf lettuce, and a home made citrus vinaigrette. Everything other than the oranges and dressing are from our CSA. Very tasty.

Spicy Orange Stir Fry!

We stir fried some red onion, bok choy, broccoli, sugar snap peas, and chicken breast in a homemade asian orange sauce with added red pepper flakes for spice and served it over jasmine rice. Nommville

Grill'n Explosion! (for less than $9)

We marinated some amberjack with olive oil, thyme, basil, italian parsley, lemon zest and juice, red pepper and sea salt, tossed it on the grill with cajun seasoned fingerling potatoes (!) and seasoned red, green, yellow AND orange bell peppers kabobbed with a vidalia onion. Also grilled peaches for dessert not seen here. Nomtown.