Oven Roasted Rataouille

If you don't feel like sauteing all those veggies - toss em on a sheet pan with garlic and olive oil,kosher salt and fresh grnd pepper and roast til caramelized/colored, around 45 mins at 400ish. The flavors are really really nice. Toss it with pasta, then, or just eat it, or make a pressed sandwich (stick rat in some french bread with some pesto slapped on and weight it down with a brick overnight) and take it to a picnic.
(Here I used 2 tomatoes (plunge into boiling water for 1 minute, peel off skin, chop into chunks before roasting), 1 zucchini, 1 eggplant, chopped, 1 sweet onion, chopped, 1 green pepper, chopped,(for traditional ratatouille) but any combo of veg you like I'm sure would be delicious. Oh and fresh basil! Rip some bits and toss them along with everything.

Ruth's garden picked sweetest Strawberry Gelato

Rose and Raspberry Truffles

not much cooking going down here

The kitchen redo is looking beautiful. Chalkboard wall, done!

Recipe for chalk paint: 3 T paint to 1 T acrylic glaze to 1 t powdered grout.

Christened w buddha today. We need some kitchen buddha-luck. Or little kitchen buddha helper people. Little Buddhas to carry all the floor tile upstairs (3 flights) would be dandy.