What we Ate 6/14-6/20

On Monday I made Spaghetti and Meatballs and after eating it I couldn't stop sweating and wanting to have a tantrum. The heat trying to escape my body in whatever way it could. Instant regret. For me, spaghetti and meatballs is a comfort dish, but usually I want it to comfort me in fall or the dead of winter. Yesterday it was hot and, like I've mentioned before, we don't have air conditioning. Needless to say it made me re-evaluate my cooking plans for the rest of the week. I think we have officially entered into our summer cooking phase. The days where I make food early in the morning before the house gets hot. Food we can eat cold or at room temperature. I have a special spot in my heart for these kinds of meals because growing up in NY that's all we ate in the summer. 

I started making dinner on Tuesday sometime early in the morning, trying to keep that summer cooking idea in mind. I made a couscous salad, a recipe from memory when I was a singleton living in a basement apartment at the bottom of a mountain. I also made a lentil salad I adapted from a Moosewood cookbook. Then I tried out this Tzatziki potato salad from the NY Times.  That was my favorite. Lighter than other potato salads, I'll definitely make it again. To please the boys there was also a package of sausage. This time I didn't start sweating after dinner and that is most definitely a win in my books. 

As the week goes on, somehow I lose sense of time or somehow time slips away and we don't have as much as we did earlier in the week. Once again, I'm sitting here trying to think of what we ate for the rest of the week. 

I do remember that on Wednesday we had to go to a bike meeting with Watts at one of the local breweries. I made easy burritos that everyone who came over and said hi to us asked about. "Where'd you get those?" Um...my kitchen. It seems like the Mac and Cheese food truck wasn't doing it for everyone. On the spur of the moment, we also decided to celebrate Father's Day with Watts early since it was the only day that all four of us would be together for a while. To honor him, we made a Minion cake. It's kind of a joke since one day while watching bakeoff he said that if he had to make a showstopper he would make a minion cake. It was too hot in our un-air conditioned house to be baking a four layer iced cake, but we did out best. 

We most definitely ate the following few days, but I'm not sure what it was. One day I did make our favorite Beet and Feta burgers from Gatherings and on the actual Father's Day we ate tacos at a food truck that were some of the best food truck tacos we've had in a while. We also made some parsnip and coconut cakes from Gatherings for Nuala's dad for Father's Day. They were delicious. 

I'm writing this and it's already the next week. I better start writing down what we're eating and no leaving it to the last minute because somehow I always lose it.