a recipe blog focused on seasonal ingredients
i wish i had some fun story for you to go along with this sautéed spinach with tomatoes. however, this is just one of those “dinner needs to be now and it should probably have vegetables” type of situations. sometimes (ok, a lot of the time on weeknights), i don’t want to cook something fancy and hard and time-consuming. i want to be already eating (NOW!) and i want to be not still cleaning dishes in an hour.
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i first made this open sandwich last summer as a way to throw lunch together quickly and use up some leftovers at the same time. when i had finished assembling the quick sandwich made up of almond pesto, white beans, and feta, i noted that it looked pretty and grabbed my iphone to snap a close-up photo of it. i was pleased with the way both the sandwich and the photo turned out but didn’t think much of either for the next 10 or so months. occasionally as i was searching through photos on my computer, i would see the quick snapshot i’d taken the summer before. it struck me as a nice photo and i enjoyed taking it buuuut… that was it. (spoiler alert: one of the photos on this page is said photo from last summer.)
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so, here’s a way in which i am a bit funny: i don’t particularly care for pesto on pasta but i really love pesto on bread, sandwiches, and pizza. totally makes sense, i know. my very scientific working theory is that it has to do with how much “dry stuff” (that’s a scientific term) there is to soak up all of the oil in the pesto and balance it out. pasta is not terribly “bready”, obviously, so the outsides get coated in pesto and there isn’t really anything to counterbalance it. bread/pizza on the other hand, has a lot more “dry stuff” going on, so the oil soaks in and makes everything taste good, rather than slip and slide around in my stomach.
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ok, so, i know i was recently opining on how figs are just a little bit weird. and they are. but just a little bit. and sometimes a little bit weird is good, right? right.
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(what feels like) a million years ago (read: in 2007), a friend of mine was recording an album and enlisted several other friends to record, produce, and play on it. i even got to play tambourine on one of the tracks! the whole experience was a grand old time and i was fortunate to be there for many of the sessions.
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