Changes

There is one thing I can say about this blog.  It is constantly evolving.

A lot of things that have happened since the holidays last year.  The biggest change has been that my dear sweet sister Molly has moved back to NC.  She got an awesome job opportunity there and would have been insane not to take it.  So now instead of cooking with me (Emily) she gets to cook with Mom.  She has a new CSA, which is structured a little different than the one she had here, but she is still cooking.  I don't know if she will continue to post stuff.  I hope she does because she was making some crazy good things, and I know I will definitely miss her cooking.

Anyways- I've been finding myself cooking less and less.  I had lost my sense of taste and when I did cook, things just weren't coming out how I wanted too.  This was not a good thing.  But after a while even take out tastes bad.  Sometime definitely needs to change.

So recently I decided that I need get myself slowly back into the cooking cycle.  So in that effort I have decided that on Sundays I will cook or bake at least 1 thing that I will eat on that day.  I know that doesn't sound like much - but its a start.  While technically I am not cooking with my sister, I feel like I am doing this in the spirit of her - so I'm going to continue calling it Sister Sunday Supper.  And these things may not necessarily even be for Supper.

Since I started this, there have been two Sundays.

On Sunday 1 - I had gone to this farm stand with my mom on our way back from vacation and I had gotten a bunch of beaches and blueberries.  My intention was to make a peach gelato with a blueberry swirl.  Of course once I read my gelato recipe I realized that I didn't have enough peaches.  So the fruit hung out in the fridge for a week.  Knowing that it would go bad, I decided instead that I would make a peach pie and blueberry gelato instead.  Two very simple things.  Yes, gelato is really easy to make if you have a ice cream mixer attachment for your Kitchen Aide stand mixer.  In fact, I've found that I've been mostly making gelato on the mixer lately.  Anyways - the gelato actually had to be made over two days (gelato batter must chill in the fridge before you mix it - and the longer you chill it the better it is).  But the pie was delicious.  It was nice having such a simple dessert throughout the week.

On Sunday 2 - At the same farmstand where I got the peaches and blueberries I also got a zuchinni and tomato.  Remarkably even two weeks later they hadn't gone bad - but I didn't want to push it.  So I used the zuchinni, tomato, an onion, and some chopped rotisserie chicken to make a fritata.  I had a bunch of egg whites leftover from when I made the gelato batter so I just used those and a few more eggs and some half and half for the egg base.  To add a little flavor, I picked some basil and parsley from my herb garden.  BTW, my herb garden has gone insane with cilantro this year thanks to the relatively mild weather we have had this summer.

So those are my first two entries for my sisterless Sister Sunday Supper.