Leftovers with Lauren

Friday 5 September

Holt brought Lauren home for dinner, and she generously helped us finish off most of the Labor day leftovers.

We started with white wine, whetting our appetites with pickled daikon, olives, and roasted peppers on crackers.  Then we came to the table for a mixed bag of everything. 

For example, we had some leftover crabcake makings, the kernels of an ear of corn, and two boiled potatoes - so we mashed it all together, made patties, breaded them in panko, and fried them crisp and brown.

With the leftover tonnato sauce, we made macaroni salad: tossed the sauce with 8 oz. of cooked and cooled elbow macaroni and half a chopped red pepper, plus a chopped scallion or two.

We also mashed up a mess of whitefish salad, to pile on Holt's Italian bran bread.

Even easier was a platter of ripe tomatoes anointed with basil oil, which went nicely with white anchovies from Dean's.

We ended with the last of Saturday's blueberries and nectarines, topped with Graeter's peach ice cream, and enlivened with sips of Lauren's fine gift of Jefferson "ridiculously small-batch" bourbon.  Thanks, Lauren - and next time, we hope that Zac can come too.