Back home again

The very first thing we did after we set down our luggage was to go right out to the farmer's market. Thus my kitchen contains many delicious fruits and vegetables that are giving me the eye, including a fat quart of fat blackberries begging to be made into fat ice cream. But after ten days of good visiting and good eating followed by a red-eye flight and the protracted use of several kinds of ground transport, I have been reduced to nothing but lying on the couch where I am capable only of alternately reading and dropping off to sleep. This sort of day calls for something seriously unchallenging and delicious, like boiled potatoes broken up at the bottom of a bowl and covered with onions and red peppers stewed in olive oil, so that is what we'll have.

I perked up a bit as I was cooking, so I made something a tiny bit more elaborate than potatoes and onions and peppers, but not much. After I put the potatoes in the bottom of the bowls and while the peppers and onions were working on achieving ideal utter limpness, I put plenty of freshly ground pepper, some fresh coarsely chopped basil, torn up fresh mozzarella, and a few quartered cherry tomatoes on top of the tomatoes. The idea is that the hot peppers and onions will heat those ingredients just through and make for more sweet jumbled tastiness for you to eat, hunched atavistically over your bowl.

Posted by redfox at August 04, 2002 07:37 PM (dinner reports)

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