A paper plate full of whatever-is-in-the-fridge plus some hummus my friend picked up at Costco (really good!). Consumed poolside. Blueberries, sharp cheddar, water crackers, ripe avocado with salt, cambazola.

Dates stuffed with Basque blue and capped with Serrano dusted with panko and deep fried, hmm hot fruit and cheese. My salt cod fritters were not nearly as good, but both were meant as an experiment.

A slice of Fudgie the Whale...it's a whale of a cake for a whale of a dad.

A bowl of sweet, beautiful Yamagata cherries.

Mango mini Kit Kat balls. Tasty, but I wouldn't mind a bit more mango flavor.

PB&J sandwich.

Am consuming a blueberry Skyr parfait with strawberries and granola. Super delicious. As a high-protein, fat-free dairy dessert this is aces. Even better is the vanilla Skyr with granola and blueberries available at Whole Foods. A little pricey at $2, but a lot cheaper and healthier than most desserts.

Tuna salad on a potato roll with a slice of provolone

frozen chocolate chip cookie dough.

A fluffernutella!

Leftover beef/broccoli/shiitake stir-fry with brown rice.

Tangysweet green tea flavor w/ mango topping. Either I'm crazy or the flavors of the mango and green tea work really well.

Roasted chioggia beets atop sauteed beet greens (from my garden), with a squeeze of lemon, s&p, and shaved Locatelli pecorino.

My kid wanted some kind of puffy cracker she saw at the store that was literally a bite of air, and the box cost $4.99. So right now we are eating some really fabulous home made "everything" crackers with a really nummy warm brie and grapes.

Happiness is choosing between Ray's the Burger and Ray's the Steak for a late night snack.

Toscanini's burnt caramel ice cream.

pâte á choux, with cinnamon-sugar butter. and a hint of star anise. The warm golden puff gets violated with vanilla ice cream, and poof! it is gone.

The first batch of the summer of homemade salsa made in 5 minutes in the middle of the night.

Red chile beef jerky from Red Rock Beef Jerky in Gallup, NM (Thanks, Mom!). My gums are tingling now.

Periodic McVitie's Update: Mini Orange Digestive Biscuits. Orange cream sandwiched between teeny-tiny chocolate cookies. Second in awesome only to the Cocoa and Caramel ones, which appear to be gone forever.

Leftover breakfast goodies from Balthazar. Mmm, raisin walnut bread.

Total 0% yogurt with Trader Joe's lowfat granola in mixed berry. I'm planning ahead for a Ben's Half Smoke at the ballgame tonight.

leftover chicken tacos with curtido

A seemingly bottomless bowl of pasta with tomato sauce. I'm HUNGRY

The last piece of a blueberry crumble I made for a family get-together Sunday. Cook's Illustrated recipe---so good my Mom asked for the recipe and even had seconds! (She rarely eats any dessert at all so this was quite the compliment )

Turkey jerky (from PA)... New York Style Cinnamon Raisin Bagel Crisps... Sunkist lemon flavored prunes... Woodbridge Sauvignon Blanc

Late night dining (when you miss two trains and one bus) at its best.

Todays lunch was Keebler Chips Deluxe soft n chewy cookies and a diet coke.

Do gummy worms count?

Only if they've been well-educated.

I had left over chips, cheese and herbs to use up so I came up with a riff on nachos:
chips topped with provolone, garlic scapes, basil, parsley, and quartered sungold tomatoes. Stuck the whole thing in the microwave until the cheese melted. Needs to be played with a bit but still pretty damn good.

Ma po paneer. Really.

First Cherokee Purple tomato of the season, from the Dupont Market. With olive oil, balsamic and Maldon salt. 'nuff said.

Baked potato with lowfat sour cream and chives; coarse sea salt and pepper.

Rancho Gordo crimson popcorn with melted Plugra, coarse Balinese sea salt and Kraft Parmesan from the green container .

This is what you get when you chew gum on an airplane's final descent.

Sauteed Swiss chard with chopped tomato (both from my garden), lemon olive oil, s&p, and a few shavings of parmesan.

A healthy Cali Vegout Bite wrap from Organic to go, which was cancelled out with the Coke I'm drinking with it.

Oven roasted mini-roma tomato quarters topped with a sprinkle of lemon and maldon salt. Have I mentioned I love summer?

Salad of:
Raddichio, romaine mix
Jicama
Steamed brussel sprouts
Roasted red pepper
Tomato
Red onion
Cauliflower
Nova smeared with low fat cream cheese
Trader Joe's Pear/Gorgonzola dressing
Big cup of Good Earth tea
Exactly what I wanted.

Yes, dear.

Bellinis. Bellinii?

Local white peach and Red Havens driven back from Ohio. Golden raspberries swollen with prosecco and peach and sugar and lemon fished out of the bottom of the glass: one of the best things this year. All the windows cranked open, including skylight, light breeze and insect femurs rubbing madly in the dark.

Purple tomato and mozzarella (salt and olive oil)
Boiled corn on the cob (salt and Kerry Gold butter)
Nectarine
...all produce from Penn Quarter farmers' market.

After months of laziness in the kitchen and processed crap, I think I may have finally had my come-to-Jesus moment. Yay summer! (Though I sure could use one of those bellinii... )

Blueberries picked this morning and brought to campus by the very considerate farmers who show up at the market just to make us happy!

Salad of garden tomatoes, tarragon, Sorrento lemon olive oil, balsamic vinegar, s&p; wedge of Monocacy Silver cheese.

From the Del Ray market;
Toigo "super sweet" yellow corn...sure tastes like the mirai they had this time last year. This corn is sweet, yet 'corn-y'. The ears have a very large volume of plump kernals. I don't think anyone else is growing this corn, and I hope Toigo never stops.
Toigo peach.
I'm stuffed.

Blueberry whole grain pancakes
Fresh plum
Costa Rican coffee
Chicken, poblano, onion and cheddar frittata

tuna salad sandwich on brioche with lettuce and yellow tomato

Blueberry pancakes with blueberry syrup. I took some help fro Bisquick and added a handful of cornmeal to the batter, along with macerated blueberries from yesterday's Del Ray market. The best part was cooking them up on my new Le Creuset 11 3/4" cast iron enamel skillet from the outlet in Leesburg . If you have not cooked with one of these--I highly recommend them. Just a brush of oil here and there and it's better than teflon.

Chai and snickerdoodles [read tea and sympathy].

I usually get see antipathy...

McVitie's Kabocha Digestive Biscuits.