Food, Father's Day and Fiascos

I joined a CSA so I could be like all my friends...and now in Casa Bernasconi we're eating a tremendous amount of vegetables every week. Maybe it just seems like more since the veggies don't come prewashed, precooked in little frozen plastic baggies. Lotsa prep work. I'm coming around to it though...the freshness is a definite advantage. Last week, we got beets and I could actually cook the tops, they were so fresh.

My dinner sandwich: manchego cheese, mayo, and sauteed beet greens with yellow squash and mojo sauce. The mojo sauce is from a Rachael Ray cookbook: 1 med onion, 10 cloves garlic, 1 cup olive oil, juice and zest of one lemon, and cumin....blend all ingredients in cuisinart. That sauce helps vegetables of all kinds. I'm not crazy about kale, but cook it with a couple of spoons of mojo, and the kale isn't bitter and yucky anymore.


Salad greens and mushrooms from the CSA. I put the mushrooms on a pizza (from scratch). This here picture is the last meal I cooked in our functioning oven.




Happy Father's Day! I tried to make a cheesy potato dish with my CSA potatoes, but the oven is BROKEN! Arg! Cheese wasted. Milk wasted. Time wasted. We tried cooking the potatoes on the stovetop. Nope. Not cooked. We finally put them in the microwave after we had finished eating the steak and green beans.




Thank goodness we decided to use the grill to cook the meat. Steak in the microwave? As Amedeo might say, "NA NA NA NA!!!"




And, darling child is being a poophead about eating again. He's getting more molars, so I guess that's his problem. Here is Poppy trying to feed him...and he's got the fork in his mouth. Not helpful at all. Poor Pietro, this was not a restful Father's Day. Teething child + broken oven + raw potatoes = angry Brenna.


There's always next year, right?!? I made a repair appointment for the oven with Sears online. They can't come until Thursday and we have a party on Sunday. I really really hope that the oven isn't too difficult to fix. Otherwise I am up a creek. Keep your fingers crossed for me!