Zucchini blossom omelet
Yes, zucchini blossoms are better fried. But I can’t sit around frying things all day. And, I need more than “Fried Zucchini Blossoms” to populate the “Zucchini Blossoms” category on Local Foods. So zucchini blossom omelet it is. And you know what? It was pretty damn good, especially considering that it was so hot out that all I wanted was a nice big bowl of ice for dinner.
Plus, Ernie chopped the zucchini blossoms. He did not, however, care much for the omelet. What he liked were the Italian sausages I bought from Boccalone* and cooked up to put in his lunch. He liked those a lot. He actually sat on the kitchen floor near the stove to just be there and smell them cooking. And that is how he understood and described his own actions. “Mama,” he said, “I just want to sit here and smell this delicious smell.”
Fair enough.
*Boccalone has a salami CSA, which is pretty awesome. But you know what is really awesome? They sell “salumi cones” at Ferry Plaza–large slices of mortadella and pate formed into a cone and filled with slices of salami. Um, yeah. I thought so too: That’s genius.
