{"id":434,"date":"2009-07-11T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T14:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconwrappedlife.com\/archives\/434"},"modified":"2009-07-11T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-11T14:46:16","slug":"summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/?p=434","title":{"rendered":"Summer!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wildly delinquent in posting because we have been enjoying lots of sunshine and just generally staying pretty busy.&#160; I have a few really yummy recipes to post.&#160; Today, just a couple quickies.&#160; For 4th of July lunch, we grilled up some bbq chicken on our stovetop grill pan and got some wonderful char marks! <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0513Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0513 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0513 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0513Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>We had this with thin-sliced grilled potatoes and grilled corn succotash.&#160; The succotash was really simple and delicious with our chicken and potatoes.&#160; I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a huge fan of the leftovers, but I made a ton of it, so I ate it a couple more times for lunch and snack. <\/p>\n<p><u><font color=\"#008000\" size=\"4\"><strong>Grilled Corn and Edamame Succotash<\/strong><\/font><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 ears shucked corn<\/li>\n<li>1 cup frozen edamame <\/li>\n<li>2 cups green beans, washed and trimmed<\/li>\n<li>1 cup chopped onion<\/li>\n<li>1 clove minced garlic<\/li>\n<li>1.5 Tb butter<\/li>\n<li>1 cup cherry tomatoes<\/li>\n<li>1.5 Tb lemon juice<\/li>\n<li>1 Tb balsamic vinegar<\/li>\n<li>Salt &amp; Vinegar<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Grill corn for about 10 minutes, turning often to get lots of grill marks all the way around. <\/li>\n<li>Boil 4 cups water and cook edamame and beans for about 3 minutes to par cook.<\/li>\n<li>Drain and rinse with cold water to stop the cooking process.<\/li>\n<li>Melt butter in a pan and saut\u00c3\u00a9 onion and garlic until lightly brown. <\/li>\n<li>Add the corn and cook for a couple minutes.&#160; Add bean\/edamame mixture and cook for another couple minutes.<\/li>\n<li>Remove from the pan to a large bowl and add tomatoes, lemon juice, balsamic, salt and pepper.&#160;&#160; <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Super easy and really fresh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0519Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0519 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0519 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0519Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"593\" height=\"446\" \/><\/a>&#160; <\/p>\n<p>Matt and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t eat a lot of fresh fruit as snacks, so when our CSA box comes with new fruits that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not used to eating out of hand, I try to come up with somewhat healthy ways to use them and get as much fruit into our diet as possible.&#160; <\/p>\n<p>This past week I made another pie.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/archives\/426\" target=\"_blank\">The last pie I made<\/a> was a bit fancier, much prettier, and probably quite a bit healthier.&#160; This pie, however, was amazingly wonderful and we finished it by Thursday night.&#160; I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get many pictures of the actual pie-making process, and the slice of pie that I have a picture of is a mushy mess, but this is what made it so delicious.&#160; <\/p>\n<p><u><font color=\"#800040\" size=\"4\"><strong>Cherry Pluot Custard Pie Heaven<\/strong><\/font><\/u><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 pie crust (Pillsbury for this one)<\/li>\n<li>1 box Jell-O Pudding custard mix (I should have used two\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6it was a pretty thin layer of custard.&#160; And the next time I make a pie like this, my plan is to actually make the custard.)<\/li>\n<li>~1 cup fresh cherries, pitted and cut in quarters (I never liked fresh cherries when I was growing up, but now that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m in Seattle, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m finding that fresh cherries in Washington\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhich they offer up as samples while you walk around farmer\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s markets\u00e2\u20ac\u201dare a really wonderful summer snack)<\/li>\n<li>4 pluots, peeled, pitted and chopped <\/li>\n<li>Cool whip galore<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ol>\n<li>Prepare custard according to directions for thick pie filling.<\/li>\n<li>Cook fruit over medium heat until it gets nice and juicy and wonderful.&#160; I added a tiny bit of sugar to the mix.<\/li>\n<li>Line pie plate with pie and blind bake until it is nice and brown.&#160; You\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll notice in one of my pictures there is a big glob of white chocolate in one slice of pie\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6this is where I poked a hole in the baked crust.&#160; I mended it with white chocolate chips melted into the space to prevent the custard filling from oozing out.&#160; Matt did not object to a giant piece of white chocolate with his pie.<\/li>\n<li>After the fruit has cooked down quite a bit, strain mostly solid parts from the liquid sweetness.&#160; Save this! (I drizzled a bit over our first piece of pie, and the rest I shook up with some limeade for a sweet summer drink)<\/li>\n<li>Mix the strained solids with the prepared custard (after it has rested like the package says). <\/li>\n<li>Spread the custard mix evenly in the pie crust and top with cool whip.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Is there any question that this was delicious??? The tangy tart bite of the fruit mixed spectacularly with the thick rich custard, and a giant serving of whipped cream never made anything worse.&#160; So satisfying! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0530Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0530 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0530 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0530Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0529Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0529 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0529 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0529Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"298\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0528Small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"IMG_0528 (Small)\" border=\"0\" alt=\"IMG_0528 (Small)\" src=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/images\/anotherfruitpie_F2F5\/IMG_0528Small_thumb.jpg\" width=\"602\" height=\"453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been wildly delinquent in posting because we have been enjoying lots of sunshine and just generally staying pretty busy.&#160; I have a few really yummy recipes to post.&#160; Today, just a couple quickies.&#160; For 4th of July lunch, we grilled up some bbq chicken on our stovetop grill pan and got some wonderful [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,22,11,23,30,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holidays","category-leftovers","category-matthew","category-non-baking","category-seattle","category-yum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}