5 July 2023

I took a nice long trip, and now I am back. It was great, and if this were a travel blog, boy you´d be in for a real treat. As it is, I try to stay on topic as much as possible, which is cooking. That means that I stay true to myself by not talking about eating in restaurants, which is what traveling people do a lot. Then, everything blends together. Returning from travel, Pride, 4th of July and here we are. In San Francisco, it is good stew weather-cold, foggy, windy.

I have been making some favorites for the season like Sumi salad, grilled salmon, mushroom risotto, and I actually got some good tasting strawberries yesterday. So, let´s get excited about life.

Can you tell I´m not too excited? Well, I´m not. I should say, the spirit is willing where the flesh is weak. Is that how it goes? Could it be because my oven isn´t working again? Could it be that I am just enjoying making ordinary meals for ordinary evenings that aren´t really events per se, and perhaps I´ve already written about them and don´t have much to comment on that is fresh, new, and witty? Hmm…I think I may be getting warmer.

Summer solstice in Northeast Ohio.

So, perhaps it´s ok to enjoy the summer, the surprise dinners. Friends sit around with a bottle of wine. Finally someone says, do you have anything to eat? I have lettuce in the fridge. I can make a dressing. Fresh chicken stock? Rice? Vegetables? a little Parm? Dinner!!

I guess it´s like the weather in the city. If I plan on making pot roast with mashed potatoes and hot apple pie, it will suddenly be 95 degrees outside. Sometimes, it´s better not to plan. We can surprise ourselves. Look at these kids:

Oh the excitement of a trifle, waiting to be destroyed. That´s my nephew on the left, and grandma´s trifle in the center. More to come.