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This summer has been amazing. Still grilling all the time and eating salads all the time. It feels like forever since I’ve cooked something on the stove.

Oh I noticed that Feedly doesn’t show the captions of pictures? How annoying. So if you’re reading in Feedly and want to read the picture descriptions you’ll have to click over to my actual blog.

july 28th, 2013 – salad with Trader Joe’s cilantro salad dressing

july 29th, 2013 – corn tortillas with roasted pork, avocado, serrano salsa

july 30th, 2013 – grilled stuff (pork, mushrooms, peppers, zucchini)

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For once I actually feel like I ate enough vegetables to not worry that people will think I don’t eat enough vegetables. Ha. By the way I eat bananas, strawberries, carrots at work almost every day. Anyway this is a pretty good collection of food this time!

We’ve been buying a head of lettuce and a head of spinach and washing and cutting it up right away. It keeps well in the fridge and that plus a few more vegetables and some grilled protein makes a very nutritious and quick dinner. I’ve really been enjoying our salad dinners out on the patio the past couple weeks.

july 14th, 2013 – prawns with citrus risotto at Dark Table

Har har har. Still funny. If you missed it, you can read about our dinner at Dark Table here.

july 15th, 2013 – mango, avocado and grilled shrimp salad with peanut dressing

july 16th, 2013 – steak salad

Rare enough for you?? I accidentally spent $15 on steak that day. Oops steaks are way heavier than I expected. We ate well that night, that’s for sure!!

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A day late!! Oops!! I swear the past few days haven’t had 24 hours in them…

This is a pretty weird collection of food. It pretty much covers the entire time that Scott was in Australia. I always have very little motivation to cook when I’m only cooking for me. But actually doing these daily dinners post did motivate me to eat real things for dinner instead of chips, so that’s good. Prepare yourself for a lot of cheddar smokeys.

june 30th, 2013 – party leftovers: bbq chicken, sriracha hummus

july 1st, 2013 – party leftovers: cheddar smokeys, corn, sriracha hummus, garlic bread

july 2nd, 2013 – more party leftovers: 7 layer dip, chicken skewers

july 3rd, 2013 – pupusas from the latin restaurant across the street

I only realized yesterday that I was supposed to put that baggie of veggies on top of the pupusa. That probably would have made it a little less dry, oops.

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Half way through the year!

We got our new (to us) bbq running and it is great. I’m really loving grilled eggplant at the moment. The grilled corn I made at our housewarming was really nice too, and it’s a good thing because I’ve got about 8 more ears of corn to eat this week!!

june 16th, 2013 – goat cheese stuffed zucchini flowers, tempura broccoli, cheese nip crusted chicken

Mmm nutrition. We found the zucchini flowers at the farmers market and just had to try them. They’re one of those foods that they are constantly using on Masterchef and we’ve never really tried them. They were tasty. Other similar Masterchef things: verjuice and figs (although we have tried plenty of figs now). Oh yeah deep frying is terrifying. I think once every 2 years is about as often as I want to try that.

june 17th, 2013 – garlic and chili pasta with scallops and peas

june 18th, 2013 – perogies, cucumber and tomatoes

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I’m not going to say too much here because… PORK. Speaks for itself.

june 2nd, 2013 – porchetta sandwiches with salsa verde

In all the excitement of having a delicious smelling crackling covered piece of pork in front of me I forgot to take a picture of my actual sandwiches. I am so so so happy with how this pork turned out, omg. We sliced the pork into thin pieces and put it on rolls with a bit of salsa verde. The crackling was crunchy and salty and the meat was super moist. It was definitely channelling Vancouver’s Meat & Bread. This porchetta turned out so well I think it deserves its own post. Coming soon.

june 3rd, 2013 – vegetarian green curry

june 4th, 2013 – maple dijon chicken with sweet potato and green beans

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