after enlightenment, the dishes

Summer rain showers that scent the air first, then drench everything, sending us running to close the windows — but only after we’re sure that it’s raining in. When they let up soon afterward, the temperature has gone down ten degrees, and everything smells wet and green and soft.

Macaroni shells cooked a little past al dente, onion and garlic red sauce, homemade garlic bread, with the last of a glass of lemonade to drink.

For dessert, homemade iced mocha and a little schadenfreude via Chopped. (First course: beef shoulder, fish sauce, and canned pumpkin! Yeah, that sounds like my cupboards.) And the windows are open again.

I love iced coffee, and there’s going to be a lot of it at my place this summer … especially because I’m not using anything special, or large quantities of anything expensive, to make it. Simple, easy, cool, delicious, comforting.

That’s the theme of tonight.