and buckets of peonies!
Lots of yummy things to eat too...
If I had a cat, I would have bought some catnip. Is there such a thing as pugnip?
What I did come home with was a bagfull of morel mushrooms. I've never cooked with morels before and I felt like being adventurous. As my friend noted, they look like pieces of coral.
Here they are prior to being sauteed. I did what the woman at the farmers' market instructed, which was to quickly dunk them and swirl them in a bowl of water, to get the dirt out. And then I trimmed the ends.
And here they are in the pan. I followed Alice Water's recommendation and heated a pan, swirled a little olive oil around, popped the mushrooms in and added a tiny bit of salt.
To go with the morels, I made Betty Crocker's recipe for noodles romanoff. Basically, egg noodles in a sour cream/parmesan cheese/garlic sauce. I omitted about half the sour cream from that recipe and it was just about right. I might omit a little more next time.
Verdict: Morels=delicious!
For dessert, I made pumpkin spice bars (also from BC). Technically, I made these long before we had dinner.
It's always a pleasure to make cream cheese frosting.
While the bars were cooking, Pug and I ran outside to enjoy the sun that had magically come out. We snuggled on the hammock. I could tell Pug was immensely content watching over his yard.
Normally I don't make Fall/Winter foods in summer, but the weather's been so strange that it almost feels like Fall. The pumpkin bars were yummy.
