My college-age daughter, Abby, was on her personal working in Chicago for a lot of the summer time, so when she got here house to New York for the briefest of home windows earlier than heading again to highschool, I requested her an essential query: What do it’s essential eat whilst you’re right here?
For the reason that final time she was house, a brand new bagel spot in our neighborhood has been blowing up the household group chat, so I assumed she’d need to see what all of the fuss was about. I additionally figured she’d need to beeline for steamed rice rolls at Joe’s or make a pilgrimage to Sal & Carmine’s for her favourite New York slice. However her reply — and I swear I didn’t pay her to say this — was, “I need to eat at house.”
What she missed most, it turned out, was home-cooked meals, particularly the meals she related to summer time. Tomato sandwiches. Blueberry pancakes. Grilled salmon salad. Veggie burgers. Oklahoma-style burgers that prepare dinner over steamed onions.
Sliced tomato salads with feta. The potato salad we make with dill. Corn on the cob dripping with butter. S’mores.
For sure, working our means via the Final Gasp Summer season Guidelines was an project I may get behind, and we managed to take a seat right down to a great variety of them earlier than sending her off to highschool earlier this week.
What’s in your last-gasp summer time guidelines? What do you continue to hope to squeeze in earlier than Labor Day?
P.S. Coming house dinners and 5 issues to do with corn, tomatoes, or each.
