Summer's here

After what feels like weeks of rain, we finally got some blue sky today (before the late afternoon thunder and clouds arrived). This dinner felt like summer: sauteed garlic scapes and homemade seitan sausage, broccoli, and a Greek salad with lemon oregano feta.
For dessert, we had strawberries and dumplings, topped with some mimiccreme. This recipe is originally from Gourmet, but I went with the smitten kitchen version. With the cakey dumplings and warm strawberry sauce, this was very much like what around here we call "Australian style pudding" (as opposed to "American style pudding"). (The very best Australian style pudding is of course The Magic Pudding. Apparently Norman Lindsay wrote the book to settle an argument -- he was defending his claim that children would rather read about food than fairies.)