Pre-Season Thanksgiving

If you can have Christmas in July, then why not Thanksgiving in August?

We had some chickens that had to be processed this past week and they did a turkey too. My thought was that I would do something fun & novel with the turkey. Maybe throw it on the grill or break it down and do different, untried-before dishes with the different parts. Apparently, I was the only one who didn’t immediately think Thanksgiving Dinner.

So, as we watch a preseason Cowboys game, we’ll eat preseason Thanksgiving leftovers.

And turn on the air conditioning!

The Delishesness of Summer

Boy oh Boy was this ever good! This was one of those meals that happens when all the stars line up right. I had the leftover Julia Child Sauteed chicken, tomatoes that were right on the edge of starting to get mushy, and a handful of basil that needed a place to show off. And it found it, tucked among a mound of farfalle pasta. The recipe was super-easy…chop the tomatoes and a little bit of onion. Squeeze in 1/2 a lemon, a few glugs of olive oil, some of those little fresh mozzarella balls if you’ve got ‘em and some salt and pepper. Then cook the pasta…whatever kind you like. Once the pasta’s done, drain it, mix it with the tomatoes, some chopped up basil and Parmesan cheese. If you want to make it a meal, dump in a bunch of shredded chicken. Without the chicken, it’s the perfect side dish to take to a BBQ.

And really, how can you possibly go wrong if you show at a BBQ with this kind of tomato-ey, basil-y goodness. After all, doesn’t the combination just SCREAM summer?