Food for Shabbat (mostly local)

[magid]

It's been very hot, unpleasantly so for cooking in a non-air-conditioned space. Unfortunately, I didn't time things particularly well, so I've got the oven on now anyway.

This morning I roasted an eggplant with some summer squash and onion. , assuming it would be for Shabbat. I forgot to have lunch, though, and since they let us leave a couple of hours early today (still not sure why; it's not the Friday before a long weekend or anything), I came home and at them in lieu of lunch. Oops.

The other thing I made this morning (that I'd intended to make last night; ah, well) was an experimental soup. I sauteed onions, added the kernels and "milk" from three ears of corn, then submerged them to boil the cod carcass and head, along with a bunch of ginger. I juiced the sad-looking limes I still had hanging around, getting as much still-pretty zest as of it as I could, and once the bag of fish came out, that went in. The original plan was to use coconut milk, but I didn't have any, and the one supermarket I remembered to check had none with a hechsher. Once the fish had cooled some, I separated the fish from the bones, and put the flesh back into the soup. It chilled today, and since I needed the soup pot, I decanted it into three quart jars and another smaller container. I think bits of fresh basil would be good in this, too.

This afternoon I stopped at a farmers' market, getting three huge onions in a bunch, and two hot peppers (which are likely going to end up paired with the tomatillos, in salsa or some sort of pickle). The first onion was paired with the farm share potatoes, and put in to roast. The second one was sauteed with the second eggplant (diced reasonably small), and ground turkey with Szechuan spicy sauce. I added some of the green beans, those that didn't fit into the quart jar of dilly beans I attempted.

And that's all I'm going to cook. Last night I'd cooked two chicken breasts with onions, garlic, and eggplant-garlic spread, using one in a huge salad. The other is likely to have a similar fate, using red-leaf lettuce, cucumber, grape tomatoes, and the option of green peppers, rainbow carrots, radicchio, and/or red cabbage.

I couldn't be bothered to make dessert. I have frozen fruit bars, anyway.

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[breedingimperf.livejournal.com]

oh, yum!