Wednesday, June 10, 2026

A Few Good Meals

 

Upper left: cold chicken platter. Upper right: the chicken on the grill.
Lower photos: the fully cooked chicken being carved.

Spaghetti all'assassina (Assassin's Spaghetti) is a famous pasta dish from Bari, Italy. Instead of boiling the pasta, you cook it in a frying pan with successive additions of olive oil, garlic, chili, water and tomato paste. The pasta becomes charred and (we thought) quite delicious. The origin of the name is disputed — maybe the cook is trying to kill you with the hot chili peppers! Len didn’t use an excess of hot pepper, and we enjoyed the result.

Breakfast: A muffin from Trader Joe’s


Grilling pork chops…

The pork chops, beautifully seared and cooked. It’s definitely grilling season!

AND Swans

This pair of trumpeter swans at a pond outside of town have quite a little brood of cygnets!


Photos © 2026 mae sander

4 comments:

  1. Ohhhh I'm so hungry now. All of these food photos are excellent. Awe baby swans. Otherwise known a cygnets LOL

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  2. Is that muffin for the entire family? Or is it a normal muffin simply expanded when printing the photo?

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  3. Lots of good food here Mae. That chicken looks delicious.
    sherry

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  4. Now I want more than breakfast. The food looks great Mae. And those cygnets are so cute!

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