Friday food

Despite having less-than-optimal amounts of time Friday afternoon, I managed to make a fair bit of food.

• a low-key chicken soup
  
• apricot (jam)-mustard chicken, baked (at low heat) over onion, almond, and dried apricots
  
• sliced roasted beets
  
• green salad (greens mostly from my plants, supplemented a bit with red leaf lettuce) with pine nuts and balsamic dressing
  
• brown and wild rices, cooked with bits of dried onion and dried cranberries
  
• baby artichokes
  
• strawberries and rhubarb cooked with dumplings (thanks to Hauntmeister for the last-minute egg run)
  
• a tray of roasted potatoes, onions, and sweet potatoes
  
• fruit salad (mostly melon)

Happily, the food was enough, perhaps because I also put out seeded crackers and pinjur along with the soup, and it turned out reasonably well.

I was surprised to find that the arugula on the porch is starting to flower. It's been chilly and overcast, and it's already flowering? I don't know if it's one of the types of plants where I should keep it from flowering to keep the leaves tasting good. I suppose I should go look that up...