One big catch up post

So compressed summer classes are fantastically time consuming. All of the time that we would do basic things like watch TV, leave the house, blog post, or clean got sucked into academics instead. But now the classes are over, except getting final grades, so it's time for one big catch up post. Here goes...

Here is our homemade pizza. Just dough (from the store), sauce, cheese, fresh basil.

Our usual grocery store doesn't carry premade dough, so we shortcut other nights by using whole wheat naan as our pizza base. This is a similar version with pureed spinach and goat cheese.

This is recipe is from my friend, Danny. We slice up our Yukon Gold potatoes from the CSA into discs, dip them in a balsamic vinegar and olive oil mix, then dip them in a flour and fresh grated Parmesan mix before baking in a 425 degree oven until done (about 20-30 minutes).

Look food! Since we made these first during the World Cup, we call them world cup fries. They are good with a balsamic vinegar or ketchup dip, or naked.

Here is a haul from a recent week of our CSA. Look at the enormous zuke! The yellow softball looking thing is a lemon cucumber. We love our mismatched, delicious, fresh eggs.

Here is an amazing egg casserole Liz made to use up some of our CSA eggs. It has a dozen eggs, red pepper, CSA onion and garlic, cheese, and a blend of cumin, cayenne pepper, and kosher salt in it. We top it with our homemade guac.

Here are the ingriendts for the swiss chard pesto we made before basil started coming in the CSA.

... and the result. Right now we make fresh pesto every week.

This has quinoa, citrus, avocado, raisins, and spices in it. Be careful to not too much citrus in.

Here is a farmers' market insipred creation. We took pattypan squash and sliced them into discs and made little pizzas out of them. So a little sauce, cheese, and leaf of basil. We do seem to have tendency to slice things into discs and make pizza out of them...

Onto dessert... Here is Liz's amazing Oero cheesecake cupcakes. They are from the Martha Stewart cupcake book and are amazing.

And one of Liz's angel food cakes. This is also fabulous.