Aug. 7 dinner (with Sevin Koont)
Bob's special borscht (beets, potatoes, herbs, brown sugar, lemon juice, yogurt. Scallions and cucumber added after it's cooked. Hard-cooked egg slices and more yogurt (Greek-style) at the table.
Also kasha and kasha varniskes (the second being kasha and bowtie noodles); Bob wanted to make both. Then perfect Ranier cherries that Sevin brought (with lovely pale-yellow flesh) and watermelon that passed muster with Sevin, who is Turkish and thinks watermelon should taste as good as it did in Turkey.
There was a time when I didn't work evenings. When I could come home and cook. I made everything from scratch. Cooking was easy and ideas were fresh (like the produce) and everything tasted good. My daughter Maggie was still living at home and her sister Lyza was in town, as was my mother, Pearl. I started with the shorthand food diaries I had kept in the late 1990s. Then I kept finding things to say about food.
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