Shabbat dinner

[magid]

• wine/grape juice, challah (with multigrain flakes and flaxseed meal
  
• chipotle hummus, olives
  
• steamed broccoli
  
• roasted cauliflower and two colors of zucchini (green and gold)
  
• mint cucumber salad with feta and lemon zest
  
• green salad with red leaf lettuce, mesclun, chives, marigolds, hearts of palm, slivered almonds, and garlic croutons
  
• vaguely Indian-style greens with paneer (I sauteed garlic scapes and some baby red onions with their scallions in olive oil with curry powder, cumin powder, cayenne pepper, and ginger powder, then added lacinato kale and spinach. Once they'd cooked, I crumbled in the paneer, and now they're getting friendly.)
  
• lemon meringue ice cream with strawberry sauce

All that's left for me to do is assemble the green salad, set the table, and shower (not necessarily in that order), plus chuck things that are out of place somewhere out of sight before people arrive.

Shabbat shalom, all.

And next week Shabbat starts getting earlier, a whole two minutes earlier than this week's 8:07.

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notes

[magid.livejournal.com]

Don't put the olive jar in the recycling until it's confirmed that the olives are done.

The minted cucumber salad with lemon and feta was wonderful. Repeat this. Lots. Especially when it's hot out.

The "Indian" greens with paneer were quite good, too.

Guests brought not only a bottle of wine (Terroso Carmenere 2003, a Chilean wine I'd drink again), but a faintly lemony blueberry cake that was the perfect complement to the strawberry sauce and the lemony ice cream (red, white, and blue!).

[(Anonymous)]

What a refreshing dinner that seems to have been.

Looks like you found something nice to do with the paneer.

Do you make your own hummus?

[magid.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I do not yet make my own hummus.

[(Anonymous)]

Where do you find chipotle hummus?

[magid.livejournal.com]

The almighty Trader Joe's :-).

[(Anonymous)]

Aha! I should have known. Thank you!

And thank you as well for the smile-inducing phrasing.

(Did you walk to work today as usual even while fasting?)

[magid.livejournal.com]

I didn't walk to work today, since I'm out in California working at a vendor's rather than in my usual office.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm trying to imagine the 4th of July in California and I just can't do it!

[magid.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure what it is supposed to be like, but I'll be working much of the day, so hopefully this isn't typical....

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you get to see some fireworks!