The great thing about summer and all the vegetables available is that you don’t really have to do anything complicated or labor-intensive to have a great meal. I suppose the most work in this whole dinner was slicing the vegetables… Even the cooking took less than about 10 minutes!
Menu
Tomato*, mozzarella and basil* salad
Green salad of lettuce° and cucumber*
Grown-up additions to salad: baby chard*, beet*, turnip* and arugula* greens
Yellow squash* and onions°
Corn on the cob°
The first salad is a classic combination, but with tomatoes and basil fresh from the garden it is sublime!
When I was a kid, we used to have zucchini quite often in the summer and we always had it the same way, sliced into rounds and sauteed with onions, then topped with melted American cheese. I made this version without cheese and loved pairing the yellow squash with the red onion.
The corn on the cob was a disappointment. I got it at the farmer’s market so it was pretty fresh, but it is not the Jersey sweet corn we enjoyed back home. Still, it wasn’t bad and I think the leftover corn will make great fritters! And we got to use our special corn on the cob boats with cob holders. Last summer when they saw these for the first time in the US, the girls thought these were the neatest things they’d ever seen. So we brought a set back with us!
Oh, the green salad was not photo-worthy. Just salad and cut up cucumbers. I ate the additional grown-up greens too fast to photograph them!
Hope you enjoyed your dinner tonight!
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