[skordamou]

I wanted to start off with  a simple and delicious dessert using the ripe produce of RIGHT NOW! But as I started writing down a recipe out of my head I realized....hmmmmm...maybe I should go home and make that first! So I will be back! Meanwhile, if you are reading this....post something! What do you love to cook and eat? Or what do you fantasize about cooking or eating? I am about to leave the library now, I am checking out Anthony Bourdain's, "The Nasty Bits." I think I will sit by the side of the lake and read for the rest of the day! maybe with a raspberry UFO or perhaps a glass of dry riesling...

[Sven2]

Is there a hardcore food porn? ???

My recipes evolve depending on the herbs that I have growing,  (in pots only), no veggies in my garden, not enough sun. Only salads of four kinds that I pity to eat, the leaves are too beautiful.  I start my day like a dog - sniffing rows of flower fragrances and sweet or pungent smells on the deck.
I can post a couple of "ethnic" recipes, if I can find anything at all, as I am addicted to cookbooks. Had to swear off of buying them! (grammar?)

Something with blueberries, please? Hey, you don't have make it yourself first, experiment is the key.

[Sven2]

What happened to imam? "biyaldi"?  ::) Will I have to go through some weird sites if I google it?  :D

[skordamou]

I got waylaid as I was walking out of the library. I happened to look in the freebox and found and old Caribbean Islands cookbook. Yum! I can only be online for a moment now, but I will return tomorrow and share something very good.
I checked out the Imam Byaldi recipes online and they all are about the same. The key is to use your imagination and lots of olive oil!!!
Also, the dish goes well with yogurt or tzatziki. Here's a link, but not enough spices in this recipe...add more!!!:

http://greekgourmand.blogspot.com/2008/04/imam-bayildi-fainting-cleric.html

[Sven2]

 :D :D :D :D :D, Captain, you've filled my daily quota of humor, thanks! "Getting laid at the library" deserves a song or a scene in a campy teenagers movie, or something like that! Wait, it's a good name for a band!

Skor, what did you make last night at the end? Was it a "Chinese UFO?" (I suspect it's a cocktail, right?) However the photos of a real UFO circulating on the Net are fantastic, especially a teardrop shaped balloon of light slowly moving across the sky.

[Sven2]

Thanks for the hysterical imam recipe, wouldn't too much olive oil  turn it mushy? It's similar to a Moldavian "Lecho", I'd make it, but our local tomatoes are not ripe enough.
My favorite recipes come mostly from Williams-Sonoma cookbook series. Here is the link to their online collection. Hope you like it.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/recipe/?cm_type=gnav

Oh, I saw in my sleep that someone feeds me a slice of a flaky croissant with strawberry preserve, poor me, that was food porn, as  I do not eat carbs! :D

[skordamou]

I only have a half hour here at the library today ...and I am looking around wondering if Capt's idea were to happen, who would it be? The afternoon library users do not quite seem the type to be easily lured behind the stacks.....hmmmmmmmm.....

I must say I am impressed with your discipline Sven, to not eat carbs. I cannot yet muster the wherewithall to deny myself entire categories of food, but I realize that the day  when I must take action is coming sooner than I would wish, as I seem to be growing larger in a rather unflattering way,  something I do not like one bit. But I will wait until after Labor Day. It is easy to eat simply here, last night we just had Greek tuna salad, but in a couple of weeks I will be heading to California  and intend to enjoy every moment and every morsel.

There are so many ripe blueberries hanging on the bushes outside the house that I picked a quart in about 5 minutes. But they were so delicious by themselves that I did nothing other then eat them plain. I can't help thinking about blueberry pancakes with maple syrup. A carbfest. Perhaps for dinner tonight? Who says breakfast must be eaten in the morning, anyhow?

[skordamou]

Jeez Capt...all those barbecues, now I want to go back and see if there is actually chewing and eating! Ramon was always cooking something delicious, I have not watched JFC in so long I dare not comment.

I confess, Taki usually makes the tuna salad, but what makes it Greek is lots of lemon juice as well as oregano and garlic. Olive oil and just a bit of mayo. Finely chopped scallions, or as Taki calls them- rareripes. Capers! Capers are essential! Kalamata olives if you like them, lots of black pepper, (when I make it I add a little fresh tarragon) and it must be served with tomatoes and cucumbers.

I just deleted my comment to the other info you shared in your post...hahaha, give yourself more credit than that!
But you did get me checking out everyone who comes into my little room at the library!

[laurel]

Yeah, I do that everytime I check into the library ;D Okay so whats for dinner...LOL :D

[skordamou]

I broke up with my last library, found a new one, hahaha. No, not really, just headed north for a change of scenery. This one is set back off of the green at Craftsbury Common. Tiny, lovely town, setting for early Hitchcock film, "The Trouble With Harry". Anyone remember that one? It gave Shirley McLaine her start. I have been trying to get set up with the preliminaries for going back to work, but I have forgotten my work password... so far from my mind and now I am locked out. Oh well............

[Sven2]

Plenty of time to get ready for September, Skor, don't jinx your August.

Hey, a superhero in a "mortal battle with carbs" I am not. :D  I'm sneaking carbs in my recipes, or rather pick sometimes ones that got a sweet touch, like yesterday "Flemish Chicken". Laurel, that's what was for dinner. Unseasonal, I know, but it required a glass of white and half a cup of brandy, I love cooking with wine. Lots of thyme, it was wild and needed snipping. To honor Skor - wilted baby spinach salad with kalamata olives.

Cod goes for $10 a pound, so I just look at it in a display case.
I read that the most troubling threat to the environment is the disappearance of species, it's already crossed the recovery point.  Ruins the appetite, sorry.

Passwords! Torture, to top it, now there're case sensitive security questions and some more bull to sort through. You save it all on a flash, then can't find the folder, yes!

Skor, food porn is PICTURES of food. We need them! 8)

[skordamou]

http://eatjax.com/?p=1561

[Sven2]

Interesting. Where are the pictures? Do them oysters look real ugly? :D

[Sven2]

"Who's hungry, in the courtyard and room 45?"

[foxrox]

wow....that food looks delicious....that's why I like recipe books....I can browse the yummy food but it's nowhere close for me to eat  :)