New recipe, August 4, 2022

Grilled Watermelon Salad with Lime Mango Dressing and Cornbread Croutons from Epicurious. This is an interesting salad with a variety of flavors. I used a cornbread mix that is fairly sweet. I think this would have been better with a savory, unsweetened cornbread, but still fun. It gets a 4.

New recipe, August2, 2023

Joyce's Vietnamese Chicken Meatballs in Lettuce Wraps from the June 2006 Food and Wine. Great melange of flavors, this gets a 5!

New recipe, August 1, 2022

Eggplant Ravaiya from NYT Cooking. This is a delicious eggplant stuffed with a spiced peanut sauce. This gets an enthusiastic 5!

New recipe, July 31, 2022

Watermelon Gazpacho with Feta Crema from Epicurious. Gazpacho seems like a simple concept, but there are so many interesting variations. This one is delicious and worth making. It gets a 5.

New recipes, July 30, 2022

Two Yotam Ottolenghi recipes from NYT Cooking. Grilled Cucumbers with Tomato Cardamom Dressing and Mozzarella, served with Jerusalem Lamb Shawarma. Ottolenghi is a master of combining flavors and preparing food in unexpected ways. The cucumber dish is incredible and gets a 5. The flavors of the lamb are also amazing, but parts of it came out rather dry. Our leg didn't have much fat on it, and the oven is a convection oven—wondering if one of those is why it came out dry. Loved the flavor, wish it was moister, so it gets a 4.

New recipe, July 29, 2022

The Say Anything cocktail from Epicurious. Kind of like a mojito, a Margarita and a watermelon has a baby together. It is really excellent, it gets a 5.

New recipe, July 28, 2022

Zucchini Curry from Mrishtanna.com. A simple and very satisfying vegetable curry. This gets a 4.