Jill’s Jumble

My husband and I have joined a few CSA’s this year. Today was our pickup day for the one at Stony Loam Farm. They’ll be providing our veggies all summer long. I got to meet the farmers and pick up the very first set of veggies! We’ve been having some crazy weather here lately so apparently this haul isn’t overwhelming but I think it’s great.

Tonight’s dinner was a salad made from the redder of the two heads of lettuce with a couple of the radishes. I also threw on some chick peas I’d prepared the other day, some goat cheese and a half an avocado that I had lying around. The turkey I was cooking to go along with it didn’t actually get cooked through until well after we’d eaten. I did eat some of the crisp skin while it was still hot, but really the salad seems to have hit the spot.

The weather lately has been just gorgeous! We’ve been taking advantage of it a lot. Sunday we had a lovely dinner out on our deck.

The nicest thing about this meal is how quick it is the prepare! While you are melting butter in a pan, slice up a couple of chicken breasts so they resemble chicken tenders (or just use chicken tenders). Once they are in the pan cooking, cut up some romaine lettuce and any other veggies you like. Actually, in this case, you have your husband cut up the lettuce then add cucumbers. Apparently he hadn’t noticed that I’d snuck in a few snowpeas while he was still cutting up lettuce!

Here’s a close up:

I just used the melted, browned butter as my dressing. My husband added bottled dressing and croutons to his salad.

We’ve also been taking advantage of the new grill we just got. Lots of meals lately have involved sausages of various kinds. Last night my husband let me know that he’s not really fond of sausages unless they are hotdogs! Further inquiry resulted in the statement that last night’s smoked bratwurst were okay, but regular bratwurst isn’t. The pesto romano sausages I had in my first bento was also okay, though I recall he only ate one of those. Too bad I’ve got regular brats in the fridge I can’t wait to have because I love them. There’s very few sausages I don’t like.

I made a bento in a hurry yesterday that even features some mini sausages. But because I was running late, no pics were taken. It contained the mini sausages, cucumber, and celery with some PB to dip it in.

Tonight we’ll have steak and the second bell pepper with cheese, but on the grill this time!