Friday food

[magid]

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...

Comments

[hauntmeister.livejournal.com]

"Enough?" "ENOUGH?!!"

You made twice as much food as we could eat! Did we even get into the roasted vegetables, or fruit salad?? And we barely nibbled at the second pan of chicken. Delicious, every morsel of it, and I'm looking forward to the leftovers I have stashed in my fridge!

I think we would have enough even without the crackers and pinjur. Thanks! ;-)

[magid.livejournal.com]

Somehow, in my head, I have to cook as if everyone is a ravenous undergraduate male, and is likely to bring a friend as well. Or I cook to the size of the pots rather than the number of people. Or I'm so lazy that I don't want to cook much during the week. Or something :-).

Glad you liked it :-).

[zebraartist.livejournal.com]

MMMmmm, this sounds WONDERFUL!!!
my mouth is watering!!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Thanks :-).