Side by Side
On summer weekends, we cook side by side. There’s more elbow room and the ocean breeze asks us to linger.
The city can wait.
He juices a watermelon and then infuses it with tequila and lime. I stuff little buds grown in Uncle Jay’s garden until they’re flowering—bursting with fresh mozzarella. We light the grill, sear the sirloin burgers, char the greens.
One last sunset and a picture before we resign ourselves to the roundtrip portion of our ticket. (Does it really have to end?)
The food we cooked this weekend was simple, satisfying–everything that a summer meal, or moment, should be.
Banana Pepper Poppers
(homegrown banana peppers stuffed with monterrey jack, cheddar, smoked paprika, coriander)
Fiori Fritti
(zucchini flowers stuffed with fresh mozzarella, anchovies)
Fancy Fabulous Burgers
(ground sirloin, pine nuts, sundried tomatoes, fresh basil)
Charred Swiss Chard Stems
(Aunt Mary Jo’s Tip: Treat the leaves like lettuce, the stems like asparagus)
Watermelon Margaritas
(fresh watermelon juice, tequila, triple sec, fresh lime juice)
July 29th, 2008 at 5:51 am
And here I thought the blueberry pie was visually appealing…
July 29th, 2008 at 7:39 am
Kind of makes you want to run away to the beach and open a t-shirt shack, doesn’t it? (Or, I suppose in y’alls cases, a burger shack!) What is it about the sea and sand?!
July 29th, 2008 at 6:27 pm
Are you getting married yet???
July 30th, 2008 at 4:20 am
The Million Dollar question!
July 30th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Funny — I was thinking the same thing … when are you two getting married? I hear Palmetto Bluff is gorgeous in the fall!
July 31st, 2008 at 6:16 am
LOL. I hope he’s a millionaire
August 5th, 2008 at 5:53 am
The Million Dollar question!
Boy better stop dragging his feet…the Belle Index is on the uptick.
August 6th, 2008 at 6:05 pm
I miss the cooking blog you two had. I CANNOT WAIT till you publish a cookbook!! Till then, I’ll make do w/the recipes in your upcoming debut (which, by the way, congratulations! I remember your blog early on before the book deal and you have come a LONG way since then!!). More recipes on the site too, please, if possible? Also, I have no idea how you stay so fit with all that food in your life. Wish I could say the same for my own self . . .