Shabbat dinner

Friday night I was lucky enough to have the company of ButRachel and Wildraven for dinner. I'd been somewhat worn out by trying to do too much this week, so it was a relatively simple meal: challah rolls, kalamata olive hummus, chicken cooked with rice and chickpeas, and a green salad (featuring mizuna, purslane, basil, red and green leaf lettuces), followed by baked peaches and plums, and mango-tangerine sorbet. Unfortunately, I'd forgotten the need to avoid anything onion. Feh. It annoys me when I don't remember things like that, especially with something as ubiquitous as onion... However, everyone was gracious about it :-), and I was able to let it go after a bit, and concentrate on interesting conversation instead, about relationships, and the end of camp, and changing lives.

Productive morning

• caught up on dishes
  
• watered the plants
  
• made double chocolate bread pudding
  
• canned 2 pints of mostly-plum jam
  
• made caramelized onion-chive-oregano bread pudding

On the other hand, I now am completely out of a couple of reasonably useful things, like soy milk, eggs, and onions.