Friday morning Shabbat prep and commute

[magid]

I got home too late last night, too tired to face even starting challah dough. Shabbat's getting earlier at an amazing rate, though, so I needed to cook something before work. I partly steamed broccoli, then finished it cooking with sauteed onions, garlic, and ginger (not fresh, some of the somewhat sweetened stuff I made earlier; I balanced the sweetness by adding a bunch of black pepper). I roasted a tray of cubed beets and sweet potatoes, and made spicy almond noodles (less spicy than last week, 'cause there wasn't as much spicy sauce left as I'd thought). And I started challah dough, a small batch, since I'll be baking again on Sunday.

The plan for the afternoon includes baking challah (the second rise will likely be shorter than I'd choose), perhaps a gingerbread with honey (an advance trial for a R"H dessert, since the honeycake I've had has been too dry and too unrelievedly sweet, without anything to balance it), and a pot of butternut squash with sausage and spinach (and garlic and onions, of course). I'd like to make another vegetable of some sort, not sure what.

Plus one or two errands. It feels ambitious; it feels like the chagim are here and one million things must be done to have it all work right....


So I headed to work a bit later than I'd wanted. And it's never a good sign when you go into the T station and there's smoke. The inbound train was just sitting there, doors open, while the smoke slowly spread along the lower (inbound) platform. Eventually they had everyone get off the train, which practically filled the platform. There was no way everyone would fit on the next train, or possibly even the second. The silver lining to this was that I ran into an old acquaintance, a dancer, and we caught up with each other on the platform and the ride in.

Random interesting link: radical cartography, which has a bunch about Boston transportation, among other places, and thoughts about public transport in general. I haven't poked around the site much (the configuration was non-intuitive for me), but it looks interesting.

Comments

[fetteredwolf.livejournal.com]

and a pot of butternut squash with sausage and spinach (and garlic and onions, of course)

Mmm. You are giving me ideas! Rock ON!

[magid.livejournal.com]

Well, good :-).( If it's not spicy enough from the sausage, I'll add some cayenne, too. )

(It's really a function of must-use-up-vegetables and haven't-defrosted-meat working together; I haven't made this permutation of meat and veg before either.)

what I ended up doing

[magid.livejournal.com]

Sauteed an onion and a large leek (I ran out of garlic), added three spicy sausages, and a largish butternut squash, cubed. Let that cook down a while. Added half a pound of spinach. Added black pepper, fresh sage, a dash of hot sauce.

All gone now.