Chicken and turkeys
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magidThe plan: drop off beautiful vegetables at home. Go to Trader Joe's, acquire massive quantities of ground turkey, and come home to make meatloaves aplenty for yom tov, and sauteed turkey with spinach and preserved lemon for dinner tonight.
But.
Trader Joe's had no kosher ground turkey, in either grade. Nor did they have any kosher chicken, which was my next choice in the possible menu-go-round. Grrr. There were a couple of employees stocking the cases, so I asked, and found out that because there were a couple of holidays recently, they hadn't gotten a shipment. They're getting in a shipment on Thursday, though. I couldn't help but point out that another one of those pesky holidays was starting then...
OK, be calm, all is good. I've got people coming for dinner in the sukkah in half an hour and no dinner to serve them. Traffic was slightly lousy, so there was time on the drive home to figure out the alternate plan. The menu became: bread with toppings (butter, mango-nectarine chutney, whipped honey), mushroom-barley soup (I think what's now left might possibly fit in a smaller container!), green salad with olives and feta, orechiette with spinach-chickpea-preserved lemon stuff, and hen of the woods sauteed in butter, plus TJ's cookies for dessert.
And the evening turned around. The guests arrived, and were happy to chat while I finished the cooking. The food turned out well (must get fancy mushrooms more often), the conversation was excellent and wide-ranging, and my books were appreciated :-). I love having evenings where the conversation overflows the available time.
Plus I was excited to find a present on my computer chair.
I haven't cooked anything for the holiday yet (and will likely have to make a Butcherie run tomorrow morning before work), but life is good.
And the remaining small visitors are very well behaved, too.
But.
Trader Joe's had no kosher ground turkey, in either grade. Nor did they have any kosher chicken, which was my next choice in the possible menu-go-round. Grrr. There were a couple of employees stocking the cases, so I asked, and found out that because there were a couple of holidays recently, they hadn't gotten a shipment. They're getting in a shipment on Thursday, though. I couldn't help but point out that another one of those pesky holidays was starting then...
OK, be calm, all is good. I've got people coming for dinner in the sukkah in half an hour and no dinner to serve them. Traffic was slightly lousy, so there was time on the drive home to figure out the alternate plan. The menu became: bread with toppings (butter, mango-nectarine chutney, whipped honey), mushroom-barley soup (I think what's now left might possibly fit in a smaller container!), green salad with olives and feta, orechiette with spinach-chickpea-preserved lemon stuff, and hen of the woods sauteed in butter, plus TJ's cookies for dessert.
And the evening turned around. The guests arrived, and were happy to chat while I finished the cooking. The food turned out well (must get fancy mushrooms more often), the conversation was excellent and wide-ranging, and my books were appreciated :-). I love having evenings where the conversation overflows the available time.
Plus I was excited to find a present on my computer chair.
I haven't cooked anything for the holiday yet (and will likely have to make a Butcherie run tomorrow morning before work), but life is good.
And the remaining small visitors are very well behaved, too.
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