the mock-up.

I went on another cooking tear recently. It all started a couple of weeks ago when I found myself having a string of hypersocial days; Summer Club frisbee started, and Sugi was in town for a reading, and Tim was in town just being Tim, and so on. The upshot of all this out-and-about-ness was that I ate dinner out SIX nights in a row. And at least three of those dinners were burgers. Ugh.

Anyway, I immediately bought a bunch of vegetables and made a stir-fry, but (eyes being perpetually bigger than stomach) I had a good handful of produce left over. Enter vegetable soups. The soups required me to pick up more random ingredients I don't usually have on hand, and I was soon left with the task of using those up.

That's why I'm currently eating chilled zucchini-sesame soup with white bean hummus spread on toasted homemade white bread. Oh yes. Life is good.

Speaking of the white bean spread, one of those random ingredients was a largeish jar of tahini from Market Basket, so I urge you to prepare yourselves for the Summer of Homemade Hummus. It seems like an appropriate follow-up to the Spring of DIY Greek Yogurt and the Winter of Frantic Baking.