I want to jump right in with these
grilled flatiron steaks with tomatoes and tapenade, but I'm having a hard time figuring out which BA# it is. (Also, this is boring housekeeping to assure myself that I'm not cheating on this project, so feel free to skip. ANNA SURPRISES AHEAD.) Continuing from the last post, it would be #28, but this weekend as I was
whining about thoughtfully contemplating aloud the fact that I wasn't even halfway through the 60 SUMMER RECIPES yet, Dan asked if I had actually counted to make sure there were 60, and I said "....." And then I tried to count. And based on my original recipe-classifying strategy, only came up with 54.
Remember when
I decided that multi-part recipes should only count as one? That's not going to work, because the only way I could get to 60 was to break out things like 1) grilled flatiron steak with 2) tomatoes and 3) tapenade. That means I get to add two BA points to my total for
chickens/peppers and corn/pistachio salsa, putting me at BA#30 grilled flatiron steak with BA#31 tomatoes and BA#32 tapenade.
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| I sure hope there are a couple of new readers today, because this is FASCINATING FOR EVERYONE. |
Anyway, the steaks were pretty good, and I love anything made of chopped olives. Anna and Hopper were concerned that the grill session needed more vegetation.
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| Good looking out, guys. |
I also threw these BA#33
Vanilla-roasted rhubarb and strawberry pouches on the grill. I think this was my first rhubarb, so I give BA props for forcing me to try something that I wasn't afraid of but just hadn't gotten around to yet. I would say these smelled better than they tasted, which was slightly bland. Dan said the rhubarb was "woody," so...there you go.
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| This is where I'm going to hide my confession that I only worked out 21/30 days in June. That's less failure than I expected! |
BA#34:
Cucumber salsa. My original vision for this pile of salsa, chicken, red peppers, guacamole and bread was "sandwich," as you can see.
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| A classic one-hander. |
We spent Saturday evening with lovely internet ladies
Natalie,
Jennie, and
Regan, and their lovely internet children. I considered only posting this picture of Anna in the pool:
But, as she is hatless, you can already see that something is amiss, so I may as well come clean and admit that she had a really good time playing in the water.
Like, a really good time.
And I think she was pretty impressed by Kyle's flexibility.
Don't worry, the giant swing snapped her back to normal.
Ivy says only suckers need a swimming pool to get soaked.
In other news, we are still wary of rain.
And asparagus.
