Shabbat, last days of Pesach

[magid]

I'm hosting two meals: Shabbat dinner and eighth day lunch. For the latter, I can cook, so the menu is not set in stone (as if any of it were).

Shabbat dinner

• wine, matza
  
• roasted garlic, eggplant dip
  
• ratatouille
  
• turkey meatloaf
  
• baked kabocha squash
  
• broccoli and water chestnuts with garlic and ginger
  
• cranberry-orange compote with apples and honey
  
• boozy fruit 'tart' with ground hazelnut 'crust'
  
• spiced walnuts (ginger, cayenne, black pepper, cinnamon, sugar), dried fruit, pistachios

Last Pesach lunch

• grape liquid, matza
  
• roasted garlic, other eggplant dip, olives, possibly cheese
  
• ratatouille
  
• matza brei (likely)
  
• baked sweet potatoes
  
• green salad: mesclun, mache, mandarin oranges, scallions, and whatever else appeals
  
• boozy fruit 'tart' with ground hazelnut crust (if it turned out well and there's enough left), and/or fruit compote
  
• spiced walnuts, dried fruit, pistachios
  
• milk chocolate

At this point, everything's done except for putting the meatloaf in the oven, and the matza brei and salad for lunch.

The Butcherie was interestingly understocked, out of lots of stuff. Not so much that I couldn't get the essentials I wanted, but there were a few things I thought I'd get more of that just weren't there.

Comments

[bitty.livejournal.com]

"boozy tart"


huh.huh.huhuhuhuhuhuh.heh.huhuhuhuhuhuh.

[magid.livejournal.com]

*grin*

notes

[magid.livejournal.com]

It was grape juice for both meals.

The spiced walnuts came out well.

The fruit compote worked great with honey.

The fruit tart didn't hold together at all, really; perhaps using some of the ground nuts as a topping would work better? Also, the booze didn't cook out of the fruit at all: it was quite intense.

For lunch, I made matza brei, also a quick soup (because it was overcast, and seemed like soup weather) with onions, ginger, lemongrass, and the rest of the kabocha squash. It needed a bit of salt, but came out fairly well.

I didn't remember the chocolate for lunch, but it didn't seem necessary.