i was busy all day yesterday getting ready to have our friends tony and jeanette over this afternoon. we had a fun time catching up on each other's news and just being together. i was thankful they made the hot trek in to visit, as it's quite sticky and steamy outside and the walks on either end of the train journey are not comfortable to make. and, of course, on the way home they had to transfer to a bus as the f wasn't running and the d train doesn't take them to their neighborhood. there's usually a snafu somewhere.
i ended up making a greek grilled chicken salad that i found on a cooking website. it was very good, but i didn't like the marinade for the chicken as much as i thought i would, and it was too much work for not enough flavor; just cooking the chicken without the fuss of the marinade would have been fine. the salad dressing was very good (just the juice of two lemons with oregano, salt, pepper and then add the olive oil slowly while beating vigorously). the salad itself was comprised of a green pepper, lettuce, frisee, panisse, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, thinly sliced shallot, kalamata olives and goat cheese.
and jeanette helped me put together a caprese salad.
for dessert i made a vanilla panna cotta from the around the world cookbook, by abigail johnson dodge (morgana met her a number of years ago for an interview with the meet me at the corner episodes - virtual field trips for kids . . i don't have a post for the cooking episode, unfortunately, and the series is no longer being made, but you can see an interview morgan did with a fashion designer in nyc's garment district at this link.)
