My college-age daughter, Abby, was on her personal working in Chicago for a lot of the summer season, so when she got here dwelling to New York for the briefest of home windows earlier than heading again to high school, I requested her an necessary query: What do it is advisable to eat when you’re right here?
Because the final time she was dwelling, a brand new bagel spot in our neighborhood has been blowing up the household group chat, so I assumed she’d wish to see what all of the fuss was about. I additionally figured she’d wish 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 wish to eat at dwelling.”
What she missed most, it turned out, was home-cooked meals, particularly the meals she related to summer season. 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.
Evidently, working our method by the Final Gasp Summer time Guidelines was an project I might get behind, and we managed to sit down right down to variety of them earlier than sending her off to high school earlier this week.
What’s in your last-gasp summer season guidelines? What do you continue to hope to squeeze in earlier than Labor Day?
P.S. Coming dwelling dinners and 5 issues to do with corn, tomatoes, or each.
