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Buttermilk Maple Gin Flip

via www.seriouseats.com

This sounds like the most delicious use of extra buttermilk that I could possibly imagine! I'm developing a plan for the weekend: buttermilk waffles for the morning, buttermilk maple gin flips for the evening.

Tonight's cocktail: Remember the Maine.

Via this Serious Eats article about Heaven's Dog, the "Remember the Maine" cocktail: rye whiskey, cherry heering, sweet vermouth, absinthe.

I'm making one of these, tonight!

I made a scramble.

It has kale, kabocha squash, bacon, and eggs. I've made it twice, now. It's great when you have leftover kabocha squash, or maybe some kale, or both (and everyone has eggs and bacon, right?).

First, I chop some peeled kabocha squash into small cubes (1/2 inch cubes or so), toss them in olive oil, salt, pepper, and fresh thyme, and roast them until they're tender.

Then, I prepare a bunch of lacinato kale/cavolo nero like so (ala Lucques): half an onion, sliced, cooked in 4 tbsp olive oil until soft and just colored; a clove of garlic, minced, cooked with the onion for a minute; then the kale, stripped of ribs and roughly chopped, sauteed until done, alternating the heat between very low (most of the time) and very high (for brief periods), until it's dark green/black and kinda crispy. Season, of course.

And then: chop up some bacon into lardon-size pieces and saute them until crispy, then melt some butter, then add some eggs (I add 4, beaten) and scramble them. When they're done, mix in the kale and squash. We like it!

The Throwdown Cocktail

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This sounds delicious (as does the Frisco cocktail)!

Avocado sandwich with red onion, ricotta, preserved lemons, sliced tomatoes

via www.amateurgourmet.com

I made this, and it was delicious!

Sunday dinner

Apricots, originally uploaded by La Grande Farmers' Market

Lovely dinner, tonight:

• lemony halibut skewers with charmoula, with a mint-yogurt sauce
• summer squash gratin (from Lucques)
• apricot crisp with vanilla ice cream

I also made pizza dough and some tomato sauce for tomorrow night's dinner. All together? A very nice day in the kitchen!

Pizza!

Can we call this national make-pizza-at-home week?  That would make me really happy.  Why?  Because pizza at home is so good, so easy, and so so affordable. 

via ruhlman.com

YES. I've been making lots of pizza, lately: a shaved asparagus pizza, a radicchio and gremolota pizza, a roasted fennel and Italian sausage pizza, &c.

Here's what I do: the day before I want to make the pizza, I make the dough [1]. I let it rise for around three hours, then I put it in the refrigerator to sit, overnight. The next night, I make the pizza, and we eat it. The (delicious) end.

Drinking is always appropriate.

From Zane Lamprey's letter to the Travel Channel about Three Sheets:

That's the great thing about drinking.  Win or lose, it's appropriate.

Best line of the day, so far.

Time for a mint julep.

via www.seriouseats.com, photo from ReeseCLloyd

Yum. I'll be having one of these this weekend.

I'm such a sucker for superlatives.

via www.boston.com

Above: the world's largest bowl of tabbouleh.

(See also: the biggest dog in the world.)