my boyfriend cooks for me: thursday is apparently sandwich & corn night

Thursday, July 29, 2010

thursday is apparently sandwich & corn night

This trend has slowly been emerging for a while: on Thursday nights, we eat sandwiches for dinner. As I said in the last post, we're all about variations on a theme - last Thursday we even had corn with our sandwich, though served in a different style.

What's nice about tonight's supper is how simple everything is. There was very little preparation involved here: it was all about creating fantastic flavor combinations just by putting the right ingredients - as they are - together. The one surprise was the mozzarella cheese (the real stuff, people!) in the corn salad. Mozzarella is a very mild cheese, so this really added something texturally - something softer amid all the crunch - rather than flavor.

Italian "Burgers": pork sausage patties, mozzarella cheese, tomato, basil and mayo on a hamburger bun

Corn & Cucumber salad: corn, cucumber, cilantro, mozzarella cheese and white wine vinegar

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AlisaJuly 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM
Now this is something I can whip up today :) I saw your blog from tastespotting and I love what you have here.If you won't mind I'd love to guide Foodista readers to this post.Just add the foodista widget to the end of this post and it's all set, Thanks!
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My boyfriend loves to cook and is very creative in the kitchen. Although the internet is often consulted, he doesn't use recipes. He does most (ok, just about all) of the "heavy lifting" documented here. He also happens to be an amazing artist - which may contribute to his excellent food plating and presentation - so check out his art store on Etsy (and see some samples at the bottom of the page).

I perform important tasks (mainly peeling and chopping onions) and provide ideas gleaned from hours of reading food blogs, recipes and menus online, as well as gentle suggestions (i.e. "Isn't the [ingredient] going to go bad soon? Maybe we should use [ingredient] tonight..."). I am also Head Photographer and Blogmaster.

About Our Blog

In an article in the New York Times Michael Pollan said that we spend more time watching "sport" cooking shows than we do actually cooking. And he said this like it is a bad thing. We hope that this blog proves that these shows, while not explicitly instructive, can be a wonderful inspiration.

Of course no one has the time or resources to cook like an Iron Chef all the time. Sometimes we decide to be adventurous and try more elaborate dishes, but generally we want to show that it isn't difficult to put together interesting, creative, and healthy meals any night of the week. We don't make a weekly plan, we don't decide what to make and then go get ingredients. We buy random fun and interesting things that catch our eye at the grocery store, and then figure out how we can use them.

So don't look here for recipes (for the most part the description of what we ate is all there is to it - "mashed turnip with horseradish" is mashed turnip with horseradish!), look here for everyday ideas and inspiration.

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Thursday, July 29, 2010

thursday is apparently sandwich & corn night

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