Toasted sourdough bread with smoked salmon, beefsteak tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, black pepper, Lawry's, and sesame seeds
Mandatory pickles
Extra crispy seedless red grapes
Oysters were $1 apiece (with free shucking!) so I bought 3 dozen and then spent 10 minutes whipping up a few sauces with stuff I already had at home.
Oysters:
Happy
Great White
Rappahannock Atlantic
Salty Hog
Atlantic Olde Salt
Atlantic Blue Point
Sauces:
Something sort of like a mignonette but with blackberries and lime juice
Basically tartar sauce but thinner and orange and smoky
Garlic honey mustard
Toasted dark wheat sesame bread, the last of the leftover refried beans from Mexican takeout, Roma tomatoes, cucumbers, cottage cheese, red pepper flakes, dried minced onion, ground black pepper.
Sweet potato chips for the mandatory side cronch.
I unfortunately got some super low quality tomatoes in my grocery order a few days ago...but I know how to make tomatoes into tomaterade with only a few minutes of effort.
I toasted some discounted bread from a local bakery, lightly buttered it, sliced up the last chunk of a fresh cucumber from my neighborhood's community garden, tossed on some bits of fresh mozzarella and pepper and other assorted seasonings...and topped it all with my low-effort/high-reward oven dried tomatoes.
And I tossed a big handful of sweet potato chips on the plate for extra cronch.
Toasted focaccia, mayo, cucumber, basil, dill, BIG MATERS, dried minced onion, lemon pepper seasoning...this was one of the top ten best sandwiches I have ever eaten, tomato or otherwise.
Lightly toasted sesame focaccia from my freezer stash of a purchase from a local deli, a smidge of mayo, much more than a smidge of ground black pepper, the last bits of fresh mozzarella from my fridge, and super duper fresh tomatoes and basil from my neighbors' gardens.
Last night's dinner:
The last few slices of delicious discounted dark dank bread from my neighborhood bakery, with a smidge of olive oil on the outside to make it bake up crispity and crunchity
A can of tuna mixed with leftovers of the yogurt lemon dill sauce I made for a fancier dinner a day or two ago, plus some other random bits and bobs from the fridge
TOMATOES
Feta, fresh mozz, pepper
Hooray for a one day break in the heatwave so I could turn on the oven without also cranking up the AC!
Something pretty weird: delicious discounted dark dank mystery bread from the bakery down the street, sesame oil, tomatoes, and the last bits of leftovers from a high effort meal (definitely not a girl dinner!) I made a few days ago...crispy baked tofu, roasted lemon garlic broccoli, orange sesame soy ginger sauce
Something more traditional: ciabatta roll, olive oil, tomatoes, an obscene amount of super fresh dill (my neighbor hooked me up when she went to the farmers market this morning), mozzarella, black pepper
Ciabatta rolls brushed with a little bit of olive oil on the outside
Shredded pesto rotisserie chicken breast with cottage cheese. Yes I know the cottage cheese might sound weird, but it did exactly what I wanted it to...it moistened the dry chicken.
Roma tomatoes
Fresh basil
Fresh mozzarella
Red pepper flakes
Ground black pepper
The weather has been so disgustingly hot for so long...I was delighted to turn my oven on for the first time in about two weeks.
This meal was OUTSTANDING!!!
Sandwich 1: ciabatta, pesto, tomato, basil, mozzarella, black pepper
Sandwich 2: bagel, southwest hot mustard, pickle, rotisserie chicken breast, tomato
Side dish: cucumber, plain greek yogurt, lemon pepper seasoning, dill, red pepper flakes, feta
All prepped and ready to roll in less than 15 minutes.
Shout out to my next door neighborfriend who hooked me up with the southwest hot mustard and lemon pepper seasoning because she accidentally bought more than she could handle. She's the best!
Focaccia, pesto, tomato, feta, pepper.
I could eat like 14,000 of these, but 2 is probably enough for tonight.
Rice crackers, smoked gouda Cheez-Its, okra chips, ranch, dijon mustard, barbecue sauce
I'm not normally an afternoon snacker, but I really needed a little something today...this hit the spot!
I had some Indian takeout leftovers that needed to get finished up today...but I was also craving tomato sandwiches, and I had a couple of nice ripe tomatoes. So...this happened.
Garlic naan, paneer tikka masala, swai pakora, tomato
Peshwari naan, peanut butter, tomato
Toasted plain bagel, Thai peanut sauce, tomato, guacamole, garlic cheddar cheese curds, black pepper
I wanted to finish off the last of the smoked tofu from a recipe I made a couple days ago, and I had a nice ripe tomato ready to rip...so I made another new variety of tomato sandwich.
Toasted white bread, mayo, barbecue sauce, pickles, tofu, tomatoes
SUCCULENT!!!
My desire for tomato sandwiches will never die!
Tonight's menu:
Focaccia, pesto, lettuce, tuna, avocado, tomato, fresh mozzarella, dill, lime juice, black pepper
Bagel, cream cheese, spinach, tuna, avocado, tomato, fresh mozzarella, dill, lime juice, black pepper
Sesame seed focaccia, baby lettuce/greens, pickled red onions (from my last jar...gotta make more soon!), cottage cheese, cucumbers, black pepper, dill
Sunflower multigrain bread, spinach, cucumbers, chicken salad (the last of my leftovers from a couple days ago), tomatoes, black pepper, dill
I swear to gourd, I'm gonna get through my stash of frozen discount breads and my recent excessive score of fresh farmers market dill if it's the last thing I ever do.
My teenager started his first paying job today, a summer internship. I am very very proud of him!
I was going to order his favorite pizza or fancy sandwich or something to celebrate when he got home, but I don't have a huge budget right now...so I decided to do the fiscally responsibile thing and slap together a lil snacky plate with stuff I already have on hand.
Clockwise from the top: salami, Club crackers, Twizzlers, colby jack cheese, Babybel cheese, pretzel crackers, pepperoni wrapped string cheese, shredded rotisserie chicken breast.
In the middle: lemon and lime wedges (he likes to suck the juice out of sour citrus straight up).
Not pictured: huge bottle of ice water because it is wicked hot here.
Sunflower bread, tzatziki, tomato, dill, mozzarella, pepper
Sandwich 1: sunflower multigrain bread (toasted), tuna salad (canned tuna, mayo, pickled red onion, celery), pico de gallo
Sandwich 2: bagel (plain, toasted), cream cheese (also plain), pico de gallo
Side dish: tuna salad, cottage cheese, sesame spinach, pico de gallo