Midsummer Tablescape and More CSA Fun

 

Happy Tuesday, My Lovelies!

Today I want to share with you highlights from our Week 8 Community Supported Agriculture subscription box and a midsummer tablescape.

Week eight's box included garden carrots, onions, cherry tomatoes, naturally grown blueberries, herbs (oregano and basil), rainbow eggs, heirloom tomatoes, peaches, pink eyed peas, sweet potatoes, eggplant, ciabatta bread, and fresh burrata from Lioni (New Jersey).

The highlights were definitely the peaches (it's been a great summer for Alabama Chilton County peaches), the heirloom tomatoes, and the fresh burrata.  Burrata is a cheese shaped into a ball that's packaged in water, and when you cut into it or tear it, it's a bit runny.  Burrata means butter in Italian, and it is a yummy and buttery cheese.

We used the burrata in the big hit of the week:  

Tomato Peach Burrata Salad (above).  Here is the LINK. 

My daughter's favorite recipe of the week also included the burrata cheese.  Click here and check out the Peach Burrata Parmesan Crostini With Hot Honey.

Other favorite recipes from week eight include:

Black Eyed Pea Summer Salad

Honey Mustard Chicken

Farfalle With Eggplant and Yogurt Sauce

We received some of the most beautiful heirloom tomatoes that I've ever seen.  Carole from the From My Carolina Home  blog recently posted a recipe for Tomato Pie.  I thought I'd give it a try!  It was a hit in our home, and she really gives some great tips on how to cook one.  Click on this LINK for her post featuring this recipe.

This afternoon we will receive week nine's box, and I can't wait!

We have several July birthdays in our family.  Mr. Bookish loves the beach, lake, and fishing, so when I saw these darling fish plates on sale at Anthropologie, I thought they'd be fun for a birthday luncheon tablescape.  I think the fish (or whale?) has a funny little face, and I also like the pale blue and white stripes on the plates.  

I started with a navy and white tablecloth.  Then I layered placemats with a beach umbrella pattern.  Next I added MacKenzie-Childs plates as chargers, and I chose patterns that match the placemats.  The red and white striped napkins are a nod to beach huts, and I thought they would emphasize the red writing on the fish plates.

The yellow roses are meant to compliment the chartreuse on the placemats.  If you look closely, you can see that the napkins are trimmed in chartreuse, too.

Have you notices that scallops are in style right now?  I do have elements of them on the flower frog and the tablecloth.  If you keep things long enough they come back in style!

There is nothing new on the table other than the glasses and the plates, and I purchased them recently at Anthropologie.

In case you missed it....

I posted a small Bastille Day Vignette HERE.

You can read two romance and a classic book review HERE.

What I'm currently working on...

Since it's the All Stars break this week, I might try to do a couple of projects.  One that I'm wanting to try is a summertime cloche.  I'll also have more time to paint this week!

What have you been up to lately?

Until next time...

Blessings!
Ricki Jill