Fancy Footwork in the Kitchen
Hey everyone! Dennis and I have taken an interest in riding our bikes to the farmer's market recently, which as inspired me to do lots of cooking. I adore the fruits and veggies that are in season right now, so even though it gets really hot in here when I turn on the stove, it's so worth it! A while ago I made the first in a series of awesome dinners, and I got to use some of my favorite kitchen gadgets in the process. I made a salad with some organic baby greens and edible flowers topped with herbed goat cheese and sliced strawberries. My mom got me this nifty little tool a while back: It's like an oversized pair of tweezers and it makes it really easy to remove the strawberry stems before cutting them up. I served this with basil turkey burgers on focaccia and some sweet potato french fries. Yeah, it was awesome. For desert I made an open-face plum cake with the red and yellow dwarf plums from the trees in our yard. Lots of people have these trees and let all the wonderf