Cornbread, Corn, and Rainbow Trout

Friday August 8

Our old friend Don, who introduced us to Sole di Sicilia, lives just across the border in Buffalo, and he brought his daughter Frances over here to row in the 126th Royal Canadian Henley Regatta. Later, while she was out with her BFFs, Don came over for dinner with us. We had the two first courses out on the patio, looking over the garden, and the rest in the comfy kitchen.

We hadn't started baking yet, but luckily one of our new neighbors, Leonora, had come by that morning with a beautiful yellow cornbread loaf, hot from the oven. We cut it into little cubes and had it lavished with butter, as a lush appetizer.

Then something we'd bought that afternoon, at the Brock courtyard farmer's market: "three-minute corn," fresh out of the fields. Sugar and cream kernels, it really only took three minutes to boil, and even less time to slather with aforesaid butter and to salt and eat.

We went indoors to keep an eye on, and then to eat, the main course: two plump rainbow trout with pink flesh, which we sprinkled with dried rosemary and oregano and roasted in a hot hot oven (500º, that's Fahrenheit, we'll make the transition to centigrade . . . well, probably never).
On the side, leafy greens (again from the farmers at Brock). And a very nice wine, Peninsula Ridge 2007 Inox chardonnay, to accompany everything.

Dessert was more tasty pastry from the neighbors - it has to get eaten eventually, doesn't it?