Boston Organics, Shabbat menu, weather

[magid]

Next week, back to Wednesdays, thank goodness. Small box, some fruit.

• a smallish bunch of spinach
  
• a bag of green beans
  
• five zucchinis
  
• a small head of cauliflower
  
• two stalks of broccoli
  
• three heads of garlic
  
• eight medium yams (three pounds?)
  
• a bunch of scallions
  
• two navel oranges

And a dozen eggs. None of the onions I assumed I'd get, so didn't buy. Argh! I'm almost out of onions! I didn't want to have to implement onion rationing! (OK, after finishing the Shabbat cooking, I'm totally out of onions, so onion rationing isn't an issue :-) On the plus side, lots of green stuff, which is good.

• grape product, wheat product
  
• mezze: hummus, a variety of olives, roasted garlic
  
• spicy turkey meatloaf
  
• baked sweet potato slices
  
• roasted beets
  
• caramelized alliums: red onions, leeks, and shallots
  
• green salad
  
• fruit salad
  
• rugelach from Angel's (I couldn't resist: I lived within smell range of that place for a year)

For lunch, leftovers, plus turkey thighs baked over whole-wheat bread bits, onion, dried woodear (it's an experiment), walnuts, currants, and sage.

I walked home from the T in my T-shirt (heh), wishing I had sandals on, and saw a dandelion blooming. It pleasant, all right, but it's disturbing. This is not normal for January in Boston! Possibly even more disturbing was that the people I said that to today all reacted the same way: "Yeah, but this weather is nice." That is not the point! Earth's cycles not to be messed with lightly.

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[magid.livejournal.com]

The olives included (green) Manzanillas, (black) Nicoises, and (black) Calabresis with hot peppers. I think I like the Nicoise best for snacking, though the Calabresis are nice.

The green salad had red leaf lettuce, arugula, Nicoise olives, red cabbage, scallions, and walnuts with an orange-Balsamic vinaigrette. It needed more than that, though. I wish I'd remembered to grind some pepper before Shabbat. Also, I assumed that the olives would provide enough salt, and they didn't.

The fruit salad had pineapple, orange, a bit of pink grapefruit, and the honeydew, which was fabulously sweet.

The rugelach was better nostalgia-fodder than pastry, unfortunately. (Which didn't keep me from eating too many of them, though.)

[(Anonymous)]

If the pepper situation tends to happen more than you'd like, perhaps grind a small amount into a jar and stick it in the freezer to have on hand?

[magid.livejournal.com]

I hadn't thought of that. The question is whether I'd remember I had some in the freezer, which I might not. Usually I do remember the pepper, though.