Shabbat dinner

[magid]

• wine/grape juice, rolls (dinner rolls from When Pigs Fly)
  
• vegetable soup: onions, a head of garlic, a large sweet potato, an apple, a ripped-up sheet of nori, some ripped-up kombu, an apple, barley, salt and pepper
  
• chicken thighs baked with onions, carrots, garlic, boozy apricots, and pistachios
  
• Persian rice
  
• roasted beets and potatoes
  
• small green salad with (the last of the farm share) lettuce, cucumber, and radish
  
• apple pie (should've supported the pie plate from beneath; it collapsed as I took it out of the oven, so there's apple bits and crust bits... *sigh* (at least I didn't injure myself))

Also, later (Shabbat starts so early these days), there's the possibility of leftover gingery chocolate cake, which is a riff on the usual vegan chocolate cake recipe, using powdered milk (one person I was planning for originally doesn't consume soy, and I had no other milk substitutes around, nor any live milk (as it were), but in baking, the powder went in with all the other dries, and seemed to work fine) and some of the Trader Joe's ginger spread (which they no longer carry, but I still have an open jar of, which needs to be used by Pesach (or given away, but I'd rather use it myself!)).

Shabbat shalom, happy 2009.

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Notes

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The soup thickened a lot from the previous night, which was nice, though it needs more salt.

The chicken went over very well, though I think I should have grated in some of the ginger I was contemplating after all, to balance the sweetness (the garlic wasn't enough counterweight).

I screwed up the rice, so there was no tadeg on the bottom :-(. Otherwise, it tasted fine. But it wasn't what I'd wanted. Will have to try again.

The roasted veggies vanished, even with one person not consuming beets.

The radish in the green salad was a watermelon radish, which surprised everyone with the color inside.

Deconstructed apple pie tasted ok, but I'm still disappointed in making such a big mess out of it all.