Salmon burgers, poached tuna salad dinner

Have I mentioned that it is sometimes quite nice to have an afternoon babysitter? I picked J up from theater, went to the gym and made a batch of salmon burgers and a beautiful dinner (unfortunately prettier than it was flavorful but ah well); hell, I even showered and did my hair. What a day! First, the salmon burgers. Is this freshly ground salmon not gorgeous? And the spinach! You can just see the healthfulness oozing everywhere. I didn't have plain feta, but I did have the Mediterranean feta salsa I sometimes rave about. So why not? Into the mix it went, and I made 5 regular-sized burgers and 1 mini one.

Concurrently, I got to work on this very simple dinner salad from food52. As y'all might know, I love tuna and white bean salads so thought this would be a nice variation on the one I usually make.

You cook these little potatoes and white beans, blanch the green beans and poach the tuna in olive oil, thyme and garlic. Then you toss everything together (and I added tomatoes) and serve with some sherry vinegar. I bought a gorgeous loaf of harvest bread and that + goat cheese was a lovely accompaniment to the salad.

Ultimately, truth be told, the salad I make is more flavorful than was this one, but ah well. Always nice to try new methods and recipes, and this salad is much prettier than mine.

DST is such a bust

O up at 5 yelling for MOMMY- he thinks it's 6 so I can't be mad; but I can be really bummed and further loathe daylight savings.

Mystery reader and mini-muffins

Don't y'all think there is something satisfying about mini-muffins? They are cute, a nice snack, perky. I like them and made these for Jack's class. Today I am the Mystery Reader which means I dress up in a costume (y'all know how I feel about costumes -I don't- so this is really a show of love) of sorts, knock three times on their classroom door and then enter. They get to try and guess who you are, and then you read to them. I love it, can't wait! I wanted to read The Amazing Bone but there is a scene with robbers who have pistols and knives and I really didn't feel that a Quaker school would groove on that (understandable). So, I continued on the Wm Steig route and chose Dr. DeSoto. My secondary book is Till The Cows Come Home, a new cowboy book of Jack's. Anyway, I really didn't know quite where to go with the costume thing (my big costume in college was Night- I dressed in black and drew a star on my face. Have you ever heard of anything so lame? My guy friends dressed as cheerleaders from Chabad House which was absolutely hysterical and really put me to shame.) so asked my sitter who's coming to watch Ol if she had a funny hat. She said she had a big, pink, floppy one so I'm going to pair that with large sunglasses and an enormous pink pashmina. I'm just wearing jeans and a denim shirt so nothing is too identifying and will try to pull off The Pink Lady with gusto.

I'm not sure anyone will be fooled. Those little 5 year olds are smart!