A Summer Meal
Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 9:38PM
Klutz in the Kitchen in Cedar plank grilled Char, Char recipe, Cooking Tips, Entertaining Advice, Lavender marinis, Main Course, baby artichoke recipe, cocktail recipes, sangria, sides

When I was single, I used to go grocery shopping almost every day.  It was wonderful to cook whatever looked appealing, but its amazing how much extra money not to mention time you spend going to the grocery store several times a week.  I've gotten much better at doing my grocery shopping once a week, except this week.  It was a hot night, and I didn't really feel like cooking meat (the only thing we had in our fridge), so a trip to the market was necessary.  I walked to our local Whole Foods without really knowing what we would have for dinner.  The Char (a pink fleshed but mild flavored  semi-oily fish that holds up nicely on the grill) looked fabulous and they also had one of my favorite vegetables...fresh baby artichokes!  Dinner was solved.  I had some leftover sangria in the fridge, which I thought would make a nice sauce for the char.  To wash everything down we had lavender scented (with lavender from my herb garden) pink martinis.  By the way, you can find all of these recipes by clicking the link or on the "recipe" page.

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