Today is Monday, and that generally means domesticity in the Brecki household. Mike is working on his radio show, and I am working on a not-at-all-elaborate-meal-that-I-somehow-managed-to-make-complicated. Salad with greens and parsley from the garden (the first time the arugula plants have enough leaves that I feel comfortable snipping them!) with a mustard dressing (with a sampling from my 5 tubes of European mustard!), roasted potatoes from Katie and Larry’s farm, homemade bread that I am still hoping will rise (fingers crossed), and a riff on feisty green beans. These beans are called Dragon’s Tongue, and we got them – you guessed it – at Katie and Larry’s farm. Pre-cooking, they were yellow with purple bands. Beautiful. I blanched them – mostly following the recipe, sans ew-y ew-y raisins – then cooked up garlic with a bunch of super aromatic spices.
