I fried the last 2 slabs of the tofu I had marinated in buttermilk. I cut the slabs into cubes and made a spicy peanut butter sauce. Use chunky peanut butter, soy sauce, ginger, cayenne, and browned some onion. When the sauce was ready, I put some of the tofu cubes in and topped with some frozen celery. Lots of flavor, all kinds of crunch.

I had it with white rice and noodles and veggies from the soup I made yesterday.

Frozen blueberries and a piece of dark chocolate for dessert.

Grilled tomahawk lamb chops marinated in olive oil, Balsamic vinegar, salt & pepper and served with grilled potato wedges and grilled asparagus.

I love cooking outside!

for the Grapefruit Ponzu... Can't wait...

This will be a great addition to my Americana cookbooks...

BTW... My grandfather was once upon a time the lighthouse keeper for the Cape May light...

I love to visit the lighthouses and think about what it must have been like, especially back in the 1800s.

New Jersey was always an adventure in eating + the food was indescribably delicious -- world cuisine in a nutshell...

Looking at my cookbooks, I'm well on the way to collecting one from every state...Which gives me an idea
for celebrating America's 250th birthday... With 52 weeks in a year + 50 states + 14 territories... I may try
sampling a week's worth of dishes from each state + Washington, DC + / or Puerto Rico, American Samoa,
Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands + the US Virgin Islands.

The Food Network has "The United Plates of America". Their list of America's iconic foods is found here:
https://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurants/packages/best-food-in-america/photos/most-iconic-food-united-states

The website Taste of Home has this list:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/collection/the-official-food-of-every-state/

This will be fun (while the luxury of eating remains affordable)...

First grill-out of the season!

To a pound of ground local lamb I’ve added some cumin, turmeric, ras al hanout, chopped cilantro, a big clove of grated garlic, an egg and some bread crumbs. Smushed it all around and formed 5 oblong burgers, which have been chilling in the fridge.
Also grilling up some eggplant rounds. All served with a fresh-mint and lemon yogurt sauce, white rice, and a tomato/cucumber/basil salad. Pinot noir, also.
Later, a brownie beneath some coffee ice cream while we watch a show….

Peanut butter pie later.

Good Evening

Got a couple Quorn roasts (a mushroom-based seitan-type thingie) on the cheap and had a proper Sunday dinner-type meal tonight—roasted with tatties and carrots and with a nice brown gravy.

Pretty respectable for something that took hardly any effort.

A, as you say, “proper” dinner!

Ive had those Quorn cutlets before. Really liked them.