Who am I kidding? I’m not really relaxed. Are you feeling what I’m feeling? Where do we go from here? Ice cream?
A lot of it? Eat it right out of the container. Strawberry is my favorite but I’ll settle on vanilla. The sugar high will be incredible. And then there’s a crash. But I don’t care.
ICECREAM - mint chocolate chip, strawberry, vanilla, chocolate, coffee, sweet cream chocolate chip, almond toasted coconut, yes, from Arethusa!
But let’s get real. We can’t live on ice cream alone. Can we? We cannot. Well, first the main course, the healthy stuff, then desert.
POULTRY- chicken, ginny hen, pheasant, duck breast, Cornish game hen, boneless turkey breast… pick one, try a different breed every week.
WINTER SQUASH- Butternut & acorn squash, delicata squash, kombocha squash or the little honey nut squash. All can be made in so many different ways. Roasted, steamed, sautéed, puréed. A puréed squash underneath roasted chicken breast? Divine.
MEAT - New York strip, ribeye, tenderloin, butterflied leg of lamb, pork tenderloin, pork chop, rack of lamb, lamb loin chop, veal. Yes, raised humanely. And there’s more. Calves liver, skirt steak, hanger, bacon and sausages.
POTATOES - sweet potato varieties, fingerlings, new potatoes & yukons, russet & peewee.
ONIONS - scallions, leeks, shallots, sweet onion or Spanish, red onion.
NUTS & SEEDS - cashew, almond, pecan, walnut, hazel nuts, pistachios, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sunflower seeds.
SALAD GREENS - gem lettuce, baby spinach, romaine hearts, arugula, frisé, endive, maché and still, so many varieties of radicchio from Italy.
I really feel like having a salad. It’s been a while. I need to get back to where I once belonged.
Listen. You and I, we’re pretty lucky. Others need help. We buy & give large amounts of fresh produce to the Connecticut Chapter of Salvation Army every week. If you want to get involved, let me know.