holly

@hollysue

mainly cats. and food. with a side of library (ebooks/comics/games)

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holly@hollysue· 17d

Tried a new bbq spot: Lil Pig Lil Pig. Very porky. Pulled pork was excellent, moist & flavorful. Bummed they took the porchetta off the menu before I could try it. Tallow fries were just fries. Nothing amazing. Will definitely be back. 🍜🍽️

A sheet pan with a pile of pulled pork drizzled with a mustardy bbq sauce, a paper basket of thick cut fries, a small cup of ranch, pickles, pickled onions, sliced jalapenos (maybe pickled, I dunno, I didn’t try one) and a sliced of bread. Above it is a stemless margarita glass with a frozen drink called the Pucker Up: lemonade, blood orange vodka, and simple syrup.

holly@hollysue· 18d

I really can’t be trusted unsupervised at the farmers market this time of year.

A bunch of fruits & veggies on a green towel. 3 ears of corn, 3 red tropea onions, 4 apricots, 2 tomatoes, a pints worth of red & orange cherry tomatoes, 4 dapple dandy pluots, a pints worth of blackberries, a pints with if dark cherries, 3 peaches, and a bundle of basil.

holly@hollysue· 21d

Last night’s salad: lettuce, cucumber, red plums, halloumi croutons, a honey-lime vinaigrette with red onions. Planned to throw some fresh herbs on but forgot. Didn’t need them! 🍽️🍜

Chopped mixed lettuce leaves, diced red plums, diced cucumber, finely diced red onion, halloumi croutons (made in the oven). Vinaigrette was just a bunch of lime juice, olive oil, honey, and salt & pepper (the red onions were added to the vinaigrette to take some of the bite out).

holly@hollysue· 21d

How it started/how it’s going, garden style, June 3—>July 21 cherry tomatoes gone wild!

A long metal raised bed with 2 small eggplant plants, 2 small pepper plants, and 2 small cherry tomatoes plants.

The same raised bed with 2 medium sized eggplant & pepper plants and 2 giant cherry tomato plants that are just once huge mass of branches about 5 ft tall(ish) and reaching out over all sides.

holly@hollysue· 23d

Fried eggplant pizza! Made with eggplants from my garden. 🍽️🍜

A pizza sitting on a pizza peel. It’s topped with a tomato sauce, mozzarella, small fried golden brown eggplant rounds (panko-crusted). Grated parentheses & basil leaves (both green and purple basil) added after taken out of the oven.

holly@hollysue· 24d

Went to our favorite Italian place this weekend. Carbonara, Neapolitan pizza, angioletti, and cannolo. They never disappoint. 🍜🍽️

A white plate with carbonara made with rigatoni pasta, topped nicely browned guanciale, dusted with grated Parmesan

A Neapolitan style pizza with ricotta, buffalo mozzarella, smoked mozzarella, preserved lemons, and yellow cherry tomatoes.

Closest is a blue and white striped plate with angioletti, fried pillows of pizza dough dusted with cinnamon sugar, the Nutella drizzled over the top and a sprinkle of powdered sugar. At the top is a brightly colored plate with a cannolo with mini chocolate chips on one end and chopped pistachios on the other.

holly@hollysue· 28d

My cute little eggplants are starting to ripen! Thinking of making a fried eggplant pizza with this one. 🍜🍽️

A small purple and white striped Annina Italian eggplant.

holly@hollysue· 28d

It’s BLT season, in both sandwich & salad formats. Lettuce from my garden/CSA share, tomatoes from farmers market because mine aren’t ripe yet. 🍽️🍜

A bacon lettuce & tomato sandwich on square milk bead, cut in half diagonally, on a yellow plate. The bacon is crispy so there s a couple shattered pieces that have fallen out. The tomato is orange.

Salad made with red romaine, chopped orange tomatoes, bacon pieces , torn basil, and bacon fat croutons. Dressing was a red wine vinaigrette with mayo.

holly@hollysue· Jul 1

This salad was kind of amazeballs. Lettuce from my garden, strawberries from the farmers market, snap peas & radishes from my CSA share, quinoa, and pecan-crusted goat cheese. With a vinaigrette made from strawberry rhubarb jam also from the farmers market. Peak spring/summer eating. 🍽️🍜

A green bowl plate holding a salad consisting of torn lettuce, halved strawberries, thin sliced radish, sliced sugar snap peas, quinoa, and balls of goat cheese rolled in toasted chopped pecans.

holly@hollysue· Jun 28

The many shades of orange. I was happy that they posed from lightest to darkest.

Three kittens staring out a white gate. From left to right, a flame point Siamese, a lighter orange shorthair, and a dark orange/caramel guy with white socks. You can kind of see the black cat they are staring at through the bars of the gate.

holly@hollysue· Jun 28

This week’s arancino was the mafalda (mortadella, pistachio, mozzarella). Delicious. 🍜🍽️

A ball of rice stuffed with a gooey melty mixture of chopped mortadella & pistachios and mozzarella, breaded and deep-fried. A couple bites have been taken so you can see the inside. It’s in a white paper bag.

holly@hollysue· Jun 26

Had some cherries, ricotta, and buttermilk in the fridge that all needed to be used, so I had no choice but to make cherry ricotta scones. 🍽️🍜

A baking tray with brown parchment paper and 7 large round scones. They have both dried & fresh cherries and are sprinkled with sparkling sugar on top.

holly@hollysue· Jun 26

Y’all the faces on the Kangas are so expressive and delightful. I love them so much! Kudos to Yancey Labat.

A photo of the cover of Kanga U Lost in a Labyrinth by Sholly Fischer and Yancey Labat. There are 5 warrior kangaroos of Themyscira wearing their armor and all have various expressions of surprise/shock.; one is holding a torch. A young Diana is there also, looking surprised. They are standing in the archway of a stone building. The inside is dark and there’s an ominous face barely showing in the shadows behind them.

holly@hollysue· Jun 23

no one told me that jellies were back?!?! www.amazon.com/dp/B0GYQ8JMF...

a pair of jellies - plastic shoes! clear PVS in a woven ballet flat style.

holly@hollysue· Jun 19

My first lettuce harvest!!!!

A bunch of leaves of lettuces, various varieties of, laying on a towel.

holly@hollysue· Jun 16

Chicken souvlaki & snap pea salad with buttermilk dressing. Set off the smoke detectors, but it was worth it. 😆 🍽️🍜

2 skewers of broiled chicken pieces, marinated in olive oil, basil, and garlic. There is a snap pea salad made of thinly sliced snap peas (mostly green, but a couple yellow & 1 purple), lemon zest, olive oil, salt & lots of pepper. It’s sitting on a dressing made from buttermilk, Greek yogurt, garlic, salt & pepper.

holly@hollysue· Jun 12

The October Girl is totally one of my new favorites. I was already a fan of @matthewdowsmith.bsky.social of course, so I am not surprised. Absolutely loved this page in particular. And now the book is on its way to a library shelf for someone else to discover!

A picture of the cover of The October Girl Book Two by Matthew Dow Smith.

An interior page from The October Girl Book Two.

holly@hollysue· Jun 11

Happy times, my daisies have started blooming!! 😍

A stand of white Shasta daisies with bright yellow centers.

holly@hollysue· Jun 8

Beans are just too good. I sautéed some bacon & chopped white onion, added the cranberry beans along with smoked paprika, a bit of cayenne, a bay leaf, and water and cooked in the Instant Pot for 30 minutes. Made the cornmeal biscuits while the beans cooked. Perfect meal. 🍜🍽️

A green bowl with cooked cranberry beans and some cooking liquid, topped with a sprinkle of cotija cheese.

8 cornmeal drop biscuits laying on a piece of brown parchment paper on a baking rack.

holly@hollysue· Jun 5

So much blood was shed for this toast with radish butter. 🍽️🍜

4 pieces of toast slathered with radish butter (finely chopped radishes mixed with butter & some horseradish). 1 is a thick cut slice of Danish Rugbrod bread, 2 are thin-sliced pumpernickel.

holly@hollysue· Jun 4

I finally made this yesterday, and it’s simple & outstanding. I ended up not having time to cook the beans I’d planned to use, so threw in a can of cannellini. Croutons were overall kinda soft so I may toast them a bit first next time for the cronch factor. And there will be a next time! 🍜🍽️

Green bowl plate with sautéed asparagus, Spanish chorizo coins, croutons, and cannellini beans.

holly@hollysue· Jun 3

Vanilla ice cream with warm balsamic strawberry rhubarb sauce. So incredibly good and I hadn’t made it in a while. Sauce is great on its own too, but the ice cream takes it to another level. Also great without the strawberries. 🍜🍽️

A deep yellow bowl with 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream topped with a bright red sauce made from strawberries, rhubarb, sugar, and balsamic vinegar.

holly@hollysue· Jun 2

My go-to BLT salad. Lettuce from the farm and soon we’ll have the good tomatoes too. The key is you make the croutons in the bacon fat. 🍽️🍜

Black salad bowl with a BLT Salad made from Little Gem lettuce, crumbled bacon, halved grape tomatoes, bacon fat croutons made from a French batard. Dressed in a red wine vinaigrette.

holly@hollysue· Jun 1

Copper River salmon season is here! 🎉 this is a warm rice salad with sockeye salmon & red mizuna. Salmon was broiled with Dijon. Punchy dressing with lemon juice, shallot, capers, dill, dijon. Happy belly. 😀🍜🍽️

Dark green bowl plate with jasmine rice, wilted red mizuna, and chunks of broiled salmon in a lemon-dill dressing.

holly@hollysue· May 30

Y’all. There’s a booth at the farmers market with a Sicilian nonna selling arancino and cannoli and holy cats SO GOOD. 🍽️🍜

A partially eaten arancino -a rice ball stuffed with bolognese, mozzarella, and peas, covered in bread crumbs and deep-fried.

holly@hollysue· May 27

Picked my first batch of rhubarb and turned it into these rhubarb crumble bars. 🍜🍽️

A square of rhubarb crumble bars cut into 16 squares. You can see the dark red rhubarb jam between the crumbles on the top.

A single rhubarb crumble bars sitting on a copper wire rack. Perspective is from the side so you can see the layers of cookie base, rhubarb jam, and crumble on top. There are stray crumbs underneath and in the rack.

holly@hollysue· May 26

My roses are pretty happy this year.

Two light pink rose blooms, a variety named Bonica.

A big red rose (with a slight orange tint to it) plus a smaller rosebud just starting to open red.

Three bright yellow miniature rose blooms.

holly@hollysue· May 26

Yesterday’s short rib carnitas with a cabbage slaw (because I don’t do cilantro & not a big fan of raw white onion). 🍽️🍜

3 tacos in a triangle shape on a plate. They were made with golden tortillas (flour-corn blend), pulled beef shirt rib meat, and a slaw made from purple cabbage, shredded carrots, sliced green onion, lime juice, a small bit of mayo, a couple dashes of cholula hot sauce).

holly@hollysue· May 20

Broiled miso-chile asparagus & tofu on soba noodles. 🍜🍽️

An orange bowl plate with soba noodles, broiled asparagus & tofu cubes, topped with a miso-chile glaze/sauce and chopped green onions.

holly@hollysue· May 13

Look at these library book buddies! Good reading times ahead for me! @planetx.bsky.social @ryehickman.bsky.social @brandontsnider.bsky.social @comickergirl.bsky.social