Life has conspired to keep me from writing much this week, but given that it’s too hot to do much else today [insert pathetic whine about broken AC here], I’m going to make up for lost time. Just a little bit about what we ate this week:

1. Lunches consisted of a very nice chicken salad — mostly poached chicken, a bit of sliced celery, and some mayonnaise and homemade pesto. I’m really looking forward to my basil plant getting on the ball so I can use my own for a change. I served the salad on a bed of arugula and surrounded it with some nice plum tomatoes, sliced in half lengthwise.

2. Made my first turkey burgers this week. They were good, but I learned that ground turkey by itself is fairly bland and depends largely on what you cook it with for flavor. I added some lightly cooked chopped onion to the burgers, along with a handful of chopped parsley. I cooked them on the grill and served them on buns, layered with arugula, sliced tomatoes, and topped with a very tasty chipotle mayonnaise that I made by mixing a bit of mayo with some finely chopped chipotle in adobo. Yum.

3. A really good potato salad made its way to the table Thursday night to accompany some grilled swordfish. I basically made an uncooked version of my fave puttanesca sauce and mixed it with potatoes. More on this later, as I think I’ll post the recipe.

4. There’s much news from the garden, and I’ll post some pics in a bit.

There. I haven’t actually fallen off the earth, I’ve just been busy. And tired.