What’s for Dinner, Quinn?

Culinary Adventures: Banana Espresso Chocolate Chip Muffins

Good morning! Heather threw together these banana espresso chocolate chip muffins from the Baked cookbook. Baked is a fantastic bakery near us in Red Hook.

Saturday Night Dinner

Tonight, at Heather’s request, I made a little fresh pasta. First, the rolled out sheets… …the cut pasta…

Chickpeas in their own broth

Heather turned to Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything Vegetarian for tonight’s meal of chickpeas in their own broth.  We also had some green beans and delicata squash that Heather picked up at the local farmer’s market.  Very solid and easy to prepare meal.

Saturday night dinner

Tonight I made a tagine. The main ingredients were potatoes and butternut squash, but the main purpose of cooking this meal was to take some photos with our new camera. That may be the subject of another post.

Heather’s Latest Kitchen Work

Earlier in the week Heather crafted a Foccacia-style pizza based on a recipe from Cook’s Illustrated. It was delicious, although Heather already noted some portions of the recipe that she would handle differently. Later in the week we had a Caprese salad crafted from a variety of tomatoes

Saturday brunch

Here is where I show off some of the tomatoes from our garden.  We’ve got Blondkopfchen, Green Sausage, Riesentraube, and some standard grape tomatoes in the salad.  Scrambled eggs and rosemary-lavender potatoes complete the meal.

Heather’s recent kitchen work

What do you do when your garden has a 10 ft. cucumber plant that turns out 1 lb. fruits daily?  You make pickles. And tonight Heather made some lentil/chickpea patties served with a peanut sauce in a pita, with a cucumber and grape tomoto salad on the side.  Quite tasty.

Fresh From the Garden Dinner – Mike’s Fish version

Earlier today, Mike alluded to our planned Asian vegetable feast with the produce we picked from our garden.  After we picked our largest veggie yield to date, we did in fact cook up a delicious Asian-influenced meal.  It was a shared cooking adventure – I prepared the cucumber salad (top right) and made myself a [...]