Seasonal Eating Gone Awry

I'm not sure why I'm posting this. It feels like crossing the line between food blog (which should be heavy on the food porn and recipes) and diary. But you'll have to excuse me this once because danggit, i just tried so hard.

The summer menu was garlic scape pesto served with a strawberry dressing topped salad. The strawberry dressing was me trying to live up to my salad dressing challenge. It was a no go. The embarrassing part? I made five of them. Five strawberry salad dressings, all a little different, displayed on the table as some sort of fun taste test. And they all failed. Maybe it was the combination that did me in--the garlic scape pesto a bit on the thick side, paired with a heavier dressing. Whatever it was, the links to these dressings are now lurking in my bookmarks, waiting to be stumbled upon, the debacle relived (you're allowed to be melodramatic in your diary, right?). A lesson in trying too hard, i guess (note the parsley).


Er, maybe a different angle would help? No, no it did not.