Shabbat dinner

In the end, we were six, the most people for Shabbat dinner in far too long. I spent most of Friday afternoon cooking, with brief bouts of straightening, laundry, and trying to fiddle with the computer (it looks like the keyboard is indeed the source of the problem; I should try to get a new one today if I want to be able to type as well as use the mouse when at home).

What we had for dinner:

• ( wine and challah )
  
  
• ( hummus and za'atar )
  
  
• ( potato-leek soup )
  
  
• ( roasted beets and carrots )
  
  
• ( tomato salad )
  
  
• ( greens strudel )
  
  
• dill pickles
  
• ( polenta with vegetables )
  
  
• ( banana-applesauce cake )
  
  
• chocolate lentils
  
• dried cherries
  
• crystallized ginger
  
• almonds

It made me happy to host :-)

And thanks to Queue for letting me borrow a cup of Internet.

Which means what?

I got some almond butter at Trader Joe's. There were many options; I chose raw, creamy, unsalted, for no particular reason. Then I looked at the ingredient: "raw roasted almonds." Say what?


And picked up a new keyboard, so I'm back online at home. Now what's saving my wrists is that Wannagame.com was hacked and is down, so no online C&K for me.