What's cookin', good lookin'? Part II

[seela]

And a fishy taco situation for dinner. Still no ice cream, though.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Yummiest late lunch out yesterday - pickled beets and carrots, greens, hummus, dried cranberries and mustard dressing and honey roasted nuts:

Equally yummy dinner at home yesterday:

Lunch at home, inspired by yesterdays restaurant lunch - beets, goat cheese and honey roasted nuts:

 

[IrisAlthea]

Not risking anything this time!
I’m making two three layer cakes.

 

[Trubbycat]

Nothing, making a salad tonight

 

[seela]

View attachment 2358232View attachment 2358233Not risking anything this time!
I’m making two three layer cakes.

I have similar plans for today!

Rhubarb jam is bubbling away as I write. That, cream, strawberries and a touch of white chocolate will go into the cake. Three or four layers, not sure which just yet.

 

[seela]

Four layers it was.

Rhubarb jam, white chocolate ganache, quark-whipped cream mixture and sliced strawberries in each of the layer. Whipped cream and strawberries on top. The sponge was drizzled/bathed with rhubarb juice Will do piping on the sides later on, before the cake is served.

I will also clean the plate and pray to all deities that the cake won’t collapse like on the two previous midsummers. I guess if it does collapse again, I’ve officially created a new midsummer tradition.

Happy midsummer!

 

[IrisAlthea]

Oh, that looks great!
I filled mine with mascarpone and cream flavoured with Triple Sec and strawberries and decorated with with mascarpone and cream and more strawberries.

It was a great midsummer, all guest but the one who will sleep over just left.
Hope you had a great time too!

Midsummer breakfast:

 

[BiBunny]

I love all the food posts in this thread, but the dessert ones are undoubtedly the best ones!

 

[seela]

The cake didn’t collapse, so no new tradition. It was one of the better cakes I’ve made, I think, but I forgot to take pics of the finished cake.

I kept the rhubarb really tart and it was very tasty with the white chocolate and cream.

All in all a very lovely midsummer. Sauna, sunny weather, chilling in the backyard, good food and drinks, then we went to a midsummer dance which was lots of fun.

The city is almost eerily quiet, I think we are the only people in this building. No cars in the parking lot, haven’t seen or heard anybody in the stairwell either, no lights in windows in our building or the neighboring building.

Midsummer in the city is…something else.

 

[IrisAlthea]

The cake didn’t collapse, so no new tradition. It was one of the better cakes I’ve made, I think, but I forgot to take pics of the finished cake.

I kept the rhubarb really tart and it was very tasty with the white chocolate and cream.

All in all a very lovely midsummer. Sauna, sunny weather, chilling in the backyard, good food and drinks, then we went to a midsummer dance which was lots of fun.

The city is almost eerily quiet, I think we are the only people in this building. No cars in the parking lot, haven’t seen or heard anybody in the stairwell either, no lights in windows in our building or the neighboring building.

Midsummer in the city is…something else.

Towns do get very quiet at midsummer.

We had a picnic late lunch at a midsummer celebration and then a midsummer dinner at our place.
We thought the kids would celebrate with friends but several of their friends had taken extra work shifts because of the extra money involved so there were extra leftover kids instead and an extra couple of grown up friends too.

 

[seela]

Steamed baby potatoes and carrots with sage-butter sauce, perch fillets, tomato salad, pangrattato.

 

[twister947]

I had to look up midsummer...Wikipedia: festivals, bonfires, feasting, singing, Maypole dancing. Fucking is conspicuously absent.

 

[IrisAlthea]

I had to look up midsummer...Wikipedia: festivals, bonfires, feasting, singing, Maypole dancing. Fucking is conspicuously absent.

Noone remembers with all the traditional drinking.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Great dinner yesterday

Turned into left overs today

 

[IrisAlthea]

Yesterdays lamb and feta cheese soup:


Turned into lamb fricassee today:

Yes, that should be dill, but you can’t always get what you want, as the great poets sang.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Love summer food!

 

[seela]

I didn’t cook this myself, but I sure will!

Grilled veggies, hummus, feta, toasted chickpeas. Oh drool, just thinking about it makes me hungry again.

 

[seela]

I got a ton of cherries, so yesterday I made cherry compote, cherry juice, cherry syrup and cherry cake.

Lunch today is salad with chicken and cherry-balsamic dressing.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Fried peaches, that I also poured some Kirschwasser on and set on fire because I am a bit of a pyromaniac, served with on turkish yoghurt with mozzarella, bresaola and salami.

 

[seela]

Watermelon lime sorbet.

 

[IrisAlthea]

Watermelon lime sorbet.

Ooooh! Yummy!

I couldn’t choose between tuna-cream cheese-sriracha spread and fried abricots with feta, so I didn’t:

 

[seela]

Quiche and salad. Cavolo nero, tomatoes, bell pepper, red onion.

 

[sallysparrow23]

https://imgur.com/a/tfPofbM

Sourdough thin crust pizza was a hit tonight. This was my first time making it. I think next time I'll brush the crust with olive oil and cook it a bit longer, but overall it was tasty!

 

[zysmith]

I did homemade pizza as well. Sausage, pepper and onion

 

[seela]

I’ve had a jar of grilled eggplant slices for a long time and I’ve wondered what to use them in.

I used them to make nigvziani badrijani, Georgian walnut filled eggplant rolls and they were so amazingly good. Been a long time since I’ve cooked anything Georgian, but Georgia is definitely back on my cooking agenda now.