Today's farmer's market inspired me to the point that I came home & cooked until I was exhausted. I started by marinating some deer for the grill & wrapping up some potatoes for baking. While doing that I realized that I had some sweet potatoes left from a few months ago & I should bake one of those. Then I looked at the huge candy onions sitting on my counter from today's market - with the sweet potatoes now beside them & remembered the "sassy sweet potato salad" that we fell in love with last fall.
So, I started that process....chunking up the sweet potatoes & onions - opening up a can of pineapple tidbits & then tossing all of that with some balsamic vinegar & brown sugar. Here's how that looked before roasting in the oven.
These never became "Sassy Sweet Potato Salad" because they were so wonderful just roasted straight out of the oven that we ate them up! They were, in mine & Tony's opinion, the best thing on the plate.
I also took these eggs, from today's farmer's market:
And this basil, from a friend's garden (thanks Dana!):
...and made an amazing frittata. I wasn't really planning on us eating that much of the frittata for supper, but I was thinking more about going ahead & baking it with the potatoes & then having it for breakfast in the morning, since we are all leaving early for the ballpark. But, as they say about all best laid plans, they don't always work out - there's only about a quarter of the frittata left now.
Truth is, I loved every minute of cooking tonight. Our son worked with me for quite awhile in the kitchen & that is always the greatest time! I hope he grows up & cooks with his kids too...especially when the great summer vegetables start coming in.
