Another warm night
Jul. 2nd, 2002 05:31 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidQueue gave me a ride from work to pick up my car, which was waiting for me at the car place, already done by mid-afternoon.
[shameless plug] Ideal Engine is a very good car place. I was pleased that not only did they fix my car, but they were nice about it, too. They gave me estimates that were accurate, and they were pleasant to talk to when I went to pick it up. I am impressed, and very likely to return when I next need car stuff done (though I hope that won't be for quite some time...)[/shameless plug]
I stopped off at Star Market on the way home, intending to get two things for dinner. Of course, this turned out to be impossible when I found not only blueberries but cherries and grape tomatoes on sale. Unfortunately, they no longer have loose mesclun at that store.
Finally home (some days it's so nice just to come home, even if it is really hot in my apartment), I started cooking.
I turned the leftover turkey from Shabbat into turkey soup, adding also carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, and kale (because it was there, and I wanted to use it somehow.... I rather wish the farm director liked kale just a little bit less....). Now I'm thinking of it as Thanksgiving soup, since it has turkey, sweet potatoes, and cranberries (since the turkey had been cooked with cranberries). It's too hot for soup, but it was time to do something with that stuff; I can freeze it later.
I experimented with chocolate chocolate bread pudding, using both chocolate chips and cocoa powder (and sugar) mixed in with the eggs and soy milk. Also some allspice and vanilla, and some of the challah that had such nice texture this week. I am pleased to report that this experiment got a definitive thumbs up, and will likely be repeated. (Ended up not bringing out the fruit, since this was so appreciated...)
I reheated the sauteed veggies from Shabbat (onion, yellow summer squash, red pepper, turnip greens), added a minced garlic scape, made a frittata with added farmer cheese and black pepper.
And I assembled a salad: more minced garlic scape, minced chives, halved grape tomatoes, pine nuts, 2 kinds of lettuce from the farm, some basil, some radiccio, with some fresh pepper grated over before some balsamic vinegar and some olive oil drizzled over.
Queue, Hrafn, and Cthulhia came over for dinner, and we decided to eat on the porch (facilitated by Hrafn rearranging the stuff I have scattered out there... Thanks.), since outside was more breezeful, despite the fans inside. And it was a comfortable time talking and eating; I'm glad people came over. It's been far too long since I've had a non-Shabbat open-ended dinner.
Current Mood: contented, also tiredly Luddite, having been woken up by the downstairs neighbors' noisy window air conditioner..
[shameless plug] Ideal Engine is a very good car place. I was pleased that not only did they fix my car, but they were nice about it, too. They gave me estimates that were accurate, and they were pleasant to talk to when I went to pick it up. I am impressed, and very likely to return when I next need car stuff done (though I hope that won't be for quite some time...)[/shameless plug]
I stopped off at Star Market on the way home, intending to get two things for dinner. Of course, this turned out to be impossible when I found not only blueberries but cherries and grape tomatoes on sale. Unfortunately, they no longer have loose mesclun at that store.
Finally home (some days it's so nice just to come home, even if it is really hot in my apartment), I started cooking.
I turned the leftover turkey from Shabbat into turkey soup, adding also carrots, onions, sweet potatoes, and kale (because it was there, and I wanted to use it somehow.... I rather wish the farm director liked kale just a little bit less....). Now I'm thinking of it as Thanksgiving soup, since it has turkey, sweet potatoes, and cranberries (since the turkey had been cooked with cranberries). It's too hot for soup, but it was time to do something with that stuff; I can freeze it later.
I experimented with chocolate chocolate bread pudding, using both chocolate chips and cocoa powder (and sugar) mixed in with the eggs and soy milk. Also some allspice and vanilla, and some of the challah that had such nice texture this week. I am pleased to report that this experiment got a definitive thumbs up, and will likely be repeated. (Ended up not bringing out the fruit, since this was so appreciated...)
I reheated the sauteed veggies from Shabbat (onion, yellow summer squash, red pepper, turnip greens), added a minced garlic scape, made a frittata with added farmer cheese and black pepper.
And I assembled a salad: more minced garlic scape, minced chives, halved grape tomatoes, pine nuts, 2 kinds of lettuce from the farm, some basil, some radiccio, with some fresh pepper grated over before some balsamic vinegar and some olive oil drizzled over.
Queue, Hrafn, and Cthulhia came over for dinner, and we decided to eat on the porch (facilitated by Hrafn rearranging the stuff I have scattered out there... Thanks.), since outside was more breezeful, despite the fans inside. And it was a comfortable time talking and eating; I'm glad people came over. It's been far too long since I've had a non-Shabbat open-ended dinner.
Current Mood: contented, also tiredly Luddite, having been woken up by the downstairs neighbors' noisy window air conditioner..