Shabbat

I had a visitor from Worcester staying for Shabbat, so there was more impetus than had I been alone to get a bunch of stuff cooked. The dinner menu: challah, grape juice, roasted eggplant and red and yellow tomatoes, delicata squash baked with maple syrup, tomato salad, beets, and turkey thighs baked with rice and turnip greens (another tray had beet greens, but we didn't get there). Sorbet to follow. All the veggies came from the farm: I was pleased that I managed to get almost to the end of this week's share (though there is a bit left. I suppose I'll cook that tonight.) before the next wave of veggies arrives.

Shabbat morning I went to shul, for the first time in far too long. ( the eruv )

We davened across the courtyard from our usual space, due to a bat mitzvah in another minyan. It was crowded by the end. I found out about people moving, people having babies, people's engagements, a flood of social information. I started thinking about meals for the upcoming holidays, too.

I had lunch out at friends' (and had contributed challah, a yellow watermelon, three kinds of sorbet, and a rice-chickpea-pine nut dish that turned out a bit strangely colored since I'd added za'atar and a bit too much sumak... think of magenta rice, without a hint of beet nearby... I think people were slightly freaked by the color....), which ended up being an afternoon of chatting and (later) some games. A round of Guillotine followed by my first two games of Up for Grabs, a word-forming game using hexagonal letter pieces, making words grow through anagrams. I am not particularly good at this, but it was fun.