family, cooking, CSA, food pr0n (eh, sort of)

Tonight I have been busy preparing a fish fume. This is why I am not able to upload, sort, and post my pics from Infinitus.

Why are you doing that? you might ask.

My SiL gave me the Le Bernardin Cookbook for my birthday and when I thanked her she said, "Now you have to invite us over for dinner and cook something from it!"

They opted for the salmon in lemon sauce with zucchini.

So I'm making a fish fume 2 days early, prepping for dinner.

Apparently my nephew is so excited about coming over he's counting down the days on his calendar. Isn't that the sweetest thing you've ever heard?! I'll remind you, dear readers, that my other brother and SiL have never set foot inside my home in 16 years. Neither have their two children, one of whom lived 16 blocks from me last year while finishing up his BA degree at NYU. A study in contrasts, indeed.

In other news, I neglected to mention my CSA haul for the week:
Kale
Eggplants
Kirby cucumbers
Purslane
Basil
Lebanese Squash
Corn
Peaches
Plums
Nectarines

I swapped the kale for extra corn and squash. And last night I finally got round to cooking up those leeks. Instead of a leek and potato soup (yaaawn), I made leek tarts. drfardook was my willing guinea pig kitchen elf, assisting with the phyllo dough as I tried out this recipe for the first time.

Which picture do you ( like best? )

A week ago today I was dressed as Luna. How was that a week?!