Julie's Kitchen

I went to this relatively new kosher take-out place in Newton Center yesterday afternoon.

It's not just take-out: there are 10 little square tables for 2 that can be moved around in the front of the store, which is pretty nice, in a blond-wood-and-tile sort of way.

There's a case in the middle with a non-self-serve salad bar on one side, and fresh fish on another. Then there are two sort of diagonal cases heading towards the back: one side is fleishig (meat and things cooked in meat pots), the other pareve (neutral). On their holiday menu, they list milchig (dairy) stuff, and a woman told me that they have a milchig kitchen for catering and advance orders, but not in the shop.

So, the food in both cases looked nummy, and, as my friend had mentioned, rather pricey. In the end, I couldn't convince myself to get anything, since I was going to potluck, and away for the weekend. Oh, the pareve side includes a bakery section, and there's a brick oven behind it.

The food I happen to remember included a snow pea dish, salmon with hoisin and greens, salmon burgers, some grain salads, a variety of chicken dishes, meat and turkey loaves, ribs. They also had fresh mango chutney, onion jam, soup, some extremely fattening-looking desserts (fattener), also some breads, interesting wraps.

I think I'll end up there again, probably to get one or two things that I'll complement with stuff of my own.
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Productivity

Much of the stuff spinning through my head yesterday got done.

Last night I made a pasta salad (pasta, leftover tomato feta salad, chives (some over a foot long), olives, the rest of the green and red lettuces) for potluck (everyone else brought pasta or chocolate, too, though no two pasta dishes had the same shape pasta, or the same flavors). I also canned honeyed figs (with a splash of balsamic vinegar). Not sure what I'll do with them yet. I also started a load of laundry.

This morning, I got up early. I got a lot done:
* finished the load of laundry, did 2 more
* stripped the beds, remade with clean sheets
* labeled canned goods (plum and blueberry jams; honeyed figs)
* put away the Pesach dishes
* replaced the bulb in the kitchen light
* straightened every room in the house, getting many more things away than I usually manage
* packed


Scary thought of the day: some people are designing "Shakespeare's World," a theme park. Stratford-on-Avon rejected having it there, so it's going to be somewhere in PA instead.
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