Shabbat and Shavuot food
May. 25th, 2012 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidMade today:
also around:
* a couple of kinds of rolls
* grape juice and wine
* green salad things: mesclun, an heirloom tomato, kohlrabi, a variety of pickles (radish is open, carrot is another likely contender), a variety of flavored vinegars (strawberry balsamic, shiso rice, chive blossom rice)
* fruity yogurt (lemon or blood orange)
* red globe grapes and canary melons (I'm excited to try them, it's a first for me)
And a quart (or so) of rhubarb liqueur got started today too, with the other two pounds of rhubarb I got at Wednesday's farmer's market chopped up and frozen. (Note to self: Kappy's Liquor reliably carries the 1.75 L bottles of Smirnoff 100-proof vodka.)
Also, as I drove around in search of the last ingredients I needed, I saw two parking things I hadn't noticed before. First, the Porter Square field o' parking now has two spots reserved for electric cars, with what I assumed were recharging stations. Second, a block or two of Bow St. (the Somerville one in Union Square, not the Cambridge one in Harvard Square) has lost a lane of traffic to diagonal parking spaces. It's a one-way street, so you might think that the parking would angle so you could just drive in, but you would be wrong: the striping is angled such that you have to pass an open spot and back in (and there are many signs telling people to park nose out, as well). It's an interesting choice, and I assume there's a good reason for it, but I can't quite figure out what, in that the car's going to have to back up in one direction, and in heavy traffic, it's not so easy to back into a space because someone's on your tailpipe already.
- sauteed eggplant, red pepper, Vidalia onion, scallions, and fresh oregano (possible later add-ins: spicy green olives, tuna)
- roasted garlic
- baked sweet potato slices with cinnamon and cayenne
- spicy peanut noodles
- sauteed Vidalia onion, white mushrooms, tiny shiitake mushrooms, Chinese broccoli, and pressed tofu with Szechuan spicy sauce
- baked ricotta with pumpkin, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and a touch of honey
- sauteed kale with roasted garlic, sweet potato, and spicy ground turkey
also around:
* a couple of kinds of rolls
* grape juice and wine
* green salad things: mesclun, an heirloom tomato, kohlrabi, a variety of pickles (radish is open, carrot is another likely contender), a variety of flavored vinegars (strawberry balsamic, shiso rice, chive blossom rice)
* fruity yogurt (lemon or blood orange)
* red globe grapes and canary melons (I'm excited to try them, it's a first for me)
And a quart (or so) of rhubarb liqueur got started today too, with the other two pounds of rhubarb I got at Wednesday's farmer's market chopped up and frozen. (Note to self: Kappy's Liquor reliably carries the 1.75 L bottles of Smirnoff 100-proof vodka.)
Also, as I drove around in search of the last ingredients I needed, I saw two parking things I hadn't noticed before. First, the Porter Square field o' parking now has two spots reserved for electric cars, with what I assumed were recharging stations. Second, a block or two of Bow St. (the Somerville one in Union Square, not the Cambridge one in Harvard Square) has lost a lane of traffic to diagonal parking spaces. It's a one-way street, so you might think that the parking would angle so you could just drive in, but you would be wrong: the striping is angled such that you have to pass an open spot and back in (and there are many signs telling people to park nose out, as well). It's an interesting choice, and I assume there's a good reason for it, but I can't quite figure out what, in that the car's going to have to back up in one direction, and in heavy traffic, it's not so easy to back into a space because someone's on your tailpipe already.