i haven't posted about food in a while!

This weekend I made a puffed apple pancake for Sunday brunch, which was quite good, and then this pasta salad, which was absolutely amazing, holy crap. I actually didn't have as much basil and green onion than the recipe called for and I was too lazy to toast the pine nuts, so I can only imagine it's even better if you actually follow the recipe more exactly. Seriously, though, I could have eaten that entire recipe by myself. Also I can't remember if I posted here about the big dinner I made for my cousin's last day at home with us, but that was quite good, too, a very filling Indian dish with black-eyed peas and coconut milk and tomatoes and lots and lots of spices.

Tomorrow I think I am going to get to work on a recipe I have for some sweet buns stuffed with almond paste and cream, and also chicken paprikash which I've never made before, and maybe try a goat cheese and tomato tart later in the week. And we have bags upon bags of blueberries in the freezer, and unfortunately nobody in my family actually likes blueberries, except my dad, who is rarely home, so I think this weekend might be my first foray into trying jam-making.

ALSO the fresh corn should be getting cheap soon finally, I think, so I can make my mother buy lots of that so I can try grilled corn and creamed corn and corn pudding and corn fritters and plain old classic buttered and boiled. Om nom nom nom summer.

(The point of this entry is not actually to bribe certain people into coming out so I can cook for them, but IF IT WORKS.)