Sunday Dinner

Yesterday was a fabulously warm Sunday. After an entire day of cleaning, dusting, and laundry washing, dinner needed to be hearty, filling, and no-nonsensibly good. Warm weather = grilling! I can't wait until the longer days allow for grilling and dining outside for hours to come.

We had sweet italian sausage and beef hamburgers with thickly-sliced, toasted bread. Grilled tomatoes, asparagus, and shrimp were perfect accompaniments.

Dessert was grilled pears with candied pistachios and Ben and Jerry's pistachio ice cream. Yum!

Let's hope there is a lot more warm weather to come!

Yakitori Night

After reading this NYTimes article on chicken yakitori, the hubby and I were inspired to create our own yakitori meal this weekend. We stumbled upon these beautiful cherrystone clams at our local asian market and proceeded to buy several other seafood items to throw on the grill.



We decided to try "porgy fish," which appeared to be the freshest of the fish selection. However, it was pretty unanimous that this fish (at least when grilled) tends to be rubbery and flavorless in taste and texture. It was a nice contrast to the (slightly too salty) yakitori marinade though.



We used the yakitori marinade recipe from the NYTimes article, but realized after the fact that it was indeed too salty. I think we'll stick with our own homemade marinade next time.

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What was left of the spread:



Close up of the cherrystone clam glazed with garlic butter sauce... so delicious!