This week's farmers market 10-person dinner party menu + recipes — 2nd week of July

Every year, my friends and I book a long weekend in a Catskills Airbnb.

As such, every year, I moonlight as a private chef, cooking breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner for 10 people for 4 days (it’s about as stressful and logistically complicated as you might expect).

I’m on vacation too, so I try to make these meals as streamlined, easy, and quick to cook as possible. So, here’s night one: a Greek-inspired grillout.

My haul breaks down to 8 courses for 10 people — $24.96 per person. The cheapest was my $3.50 fairytale eggplants, while the priciest was my $81 pasture-raised chicken thighs (I got almost 6 pounds).

• fig leaves

• fairytale eggplants

• Japanese eggplants

• fava beans

• shishito peppers

• yellow romano beans

• sweet peppers

• yellow + lita squashes

• new red + Yukon gold potatoes

• Kirby cucumbers

• young red onions

• 2 feta blocks

• 4 pasture-raised pork chops

• grass-fed Greek yogurt (32 oz)

• 2 whole flounder (~2 lbs)

• grass-fed Halloumi (~1.5 lbs)

• pasture-raised chicken thighs (~6 lbs)

Subscribe to see my meal plan, which stretches this haul into a seven-course dinner party. I also provide recipes.