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Shabbat food
Oct. 17th, 2004 12:08 amThere have been almost-daily meetings at work from 1-3 in the afternoon (interesting ones, not drone drone doodle doodle sorts). I have to talk to the boss about my schedule, now that Shabbat is really getting early, with the time shift still to come. This week, however, I was running the meeting, so I knew I'd have to be there. And unlike the previous couple of days, this one ran the full time. I was out at the play Thursday night, and there hadn't been enough time to start cooking, in addition to getting groceries. So I started cooking an hour and a half before Shabbat. Luckily, I'd bought some bread, and started marinating chicken breasts (all that Trader Joe's had for kosher chicken) in the morning.
I heated the oven, and started chopping vegetables (I think 90% of the time I spend cooking is cutting and otherwise preparing produce). It wasn't too long until I had a tray of potatoes and onions roasting, next to a tray of halved winter squashes (carnival, delicata, and acorn; I had one of each from the farm). I thought about making rice, but didn't have any to make (*mental note for future shopping list*).
I started sauteeing onions, knowing I wanted another vegetable dish, but not sure what it should be, since I hadn't made it to the farmer's market after all. Hm. The onions were red, and I remembered I also had red cabbage. Cool, a magenta dish that didn't include beets :-) (Not that beets are bad, but I think of them as the expected magenta vegetable.). I shredded cabbage, added a diced apple, and let that cook down while I turned my attention to the chicken.
I heated the wok, and sauteed the chicken breast in the marinating sauce (a pineapple-y teriyaki). I poured some cider vinegar in with the cabbage, then when the chicken was done, diced it, and reserved it with the marinade. Next into the wok: onions, frozen chopped spinach, then white ground turkey (the grade that is so low in fat I avoid using it; it lacks flavor. But Trader Joe's had no other options this time. Feh.). I diced up some preserved lemon, and later added some hot sauce.
The only thing left to do was finish the salad prep. I washed lettuce, sliced hearts of palm, added mesclun and arugula. Just before dinner, I added the diced chicken, with the marinade as a dressing. Particularly pleasing: except for some of the greens (and the hearts of palm), all the veggies were from the farm :-).
I heated the oven, and started chopping vegetables (I think 90% of the time I spend cooking is cutting and otherwise preparing produce). It wasn't too long until I had a tray of potatoes and onions roasting, next to a tray of halved winter squashes (carnival, delicata, and acorn; I had one of each from the farm). I thought about making rice, but didn't have any to make (*mental note for future shopping list*).
I started sauteeing onions, knowing I wanted another vegetable dish, but not sure what it should be, since I hadn't made it to the farmer's market after all. Hm. The onions were red, and I remembered I also had red cabbage. Cool, a magenta dish that didn't include beets :-) (Not that beets are bad, but I think of them as the expected magenta vegetable.). I shredded cabbage, added a diced apple, and let that cook down while I turned my attention to the chicken.
I heated the wok, and sauteed the chicken breast in the marinating sauce (a pineapple-y teriyaki). I poured some cider vinegar in with the cabbage, then when the chicken was done, diced it, and reserved it with the marinade. Next into the wok: onions, frozen chopped spinach, then white ground turkey (the grade that is so low in fat I avoid using it; it lacks flavor. But Trader Joe's had no other options this time. Feh.). I diced up some preserved lemon, and later added some hot sauce.
The only thing left to do was finish the salad prep. I washed lettuce, sliced hearts of palm, added mesclun and arugula. Just before dinner, I added the diced chicken, with the marinade as a dressing. Particularly pleasing: except for some of the greens (and the hearts of palm), all the veggies were from the farm :-).