CHEZ CHLOE

Eating by candle light... alone?

Once again driving home I thought about what's for dinner. Pour Chloe gets so tired of hearing about what I want to eat, cook or try. This conversation was with me, myself and I.
I stopped at the farmer's market this morning and picked up some green onions, small, tender green beans, a blushed head of bibb lettuce, rose finn potatoes, shitake mushrooms and blueberries. This is when the conversation actually began and continued through the day when I had a moment to myself. After work, I picked up a couple of bone in pork ribs, garlic sourdough bread and a jar of oysters. In the car I was thinking about the plums on the property finally ripening and how easy galettes really are to make.

I walked in the door thinking about the order of my evening meal. As I was starved I thought I better start with a very small bowl of potato chips. Here's where it went from there......

Cooking Solo- Grilled steak sandwich

Hey it's Tuesday et je suis toute seule. Except for my photographer who dropped in.
Steak sandwich with balsamic peppercorn glaze and garlic mayo .

Cooking solo- Salmon dinner

Seared Salmon with cider bbq glaze, aspargus and shitakes, cucumbers....

Eating by yourself is a task in it self at times. Unless it's chewing while you work, clean, read or space out with some anonymous item being transferred orally from mouth to hand. Cooking for yourself is the hurdle to jump. I definitely have to be in the mood. Friday nights I'm often found deciding on real ice cream or something with a little less fat for dinner- like Stoneyfield's lowfat frozen yogurt, Dulce de Leche. This is often followed by pop corn with butter and maybe a little flax oil cut in to make me feel healthy- and a little nutritional yeast. But yesterday morning before leaving the house for the day, I pulled from the freezer a filet of wild salmon. Two days ago, I had company and grilled chicken in a cider bbq marinade, grilled asparagus and threw together strawberry rhubarb crisps . Having company now and then can be helpful in cooking for yourself as entertaining often yields leftovers and provides a good base from which to start. Driving home from work I decided to cook as it's only Tuesday and two nights of ice cream and popcorn is a bit much (for me). Here's what I did in about 20 minutes.....and I'm worth it! Oh how cliché......

And lest we forget my guest....