My college-age daughter, Abby, was on her personal working in Chicago for many of the summer season, so when she got here residence to New York for the briefest of home windows earlier than heading again to highschool, I requested her an necessary query: What do it’s essential to eat whilst you’re right here?
Because the final time she was residence, 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 residence.”
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 cook 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 manner by means of the Final Gasp Summer season Guidelines was an task I may get behind, and we managed to take a seat right down to a superb variety of them earlier than sending her off to highschool 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 residence dinners and 5 issues to do with corn, tomatoes, or each.
