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Well, not frenzy, exactly. More like relaxed puttering, and I'm loving
it. On the stove is a pot of brown rice simmering in fresh chicken stock, on which to serve the tofu curry I'll make in a few minutes. In the oven are a couple of eggplants for the baba ganouj I'm making for tomorrow's open house. Also gonna make the garlic fondue (with a sweet batard and some rustic rye to cube and dip, along with some fuji and granny smith apples), a veggie tray, and some guacamole. Guy's partner is putting out chips, salsa, soup, cold cuts, drinks, and who knows what all else -- she usually goes overboard, and who doesn't love that? What are y'all cooking tonight? serene |
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"serene" > wrote in message ... > Well, not frenzy, exactly. More like relaxed puttering, and I'm loving > it. Yeah, that's fun! > > On the stove is a pot of brown rice simmering in fresh chicken stock, > on which to serve the tofu curry I'll make in a few minutes. In the > oven are a couple of eggplants for the baba ganouj I'm making for > tomorrow's open house. Also gonna make the garlic fondue (with a > sweet batard and some rustic rye to cube and dip, along with some fuji > and granny smith apples), a veggie tray, and some guacamole. Guy's > partner is putting out chips, salsa, soup, cold cuts, drinks, and who > knows what all else -- she usually goes overboard, and who doesn't > love that? > > What are y'all cooking tonight? > We had a pretty simple supper, since we were going out later. We had a salad of cooked, chilled rock shrimp, sliced avocado, and sectioned ruby grapefruit atop a mix of baby arugula and baby spinach. The dressing was simply olive oil, lemon juice, and chopped shallot. We heated up a baguette to accompany it. Very tasty and light. Later, at our friends' house, we ordered pizza and noshed on Doritos, Funyons, and assorted chocolates (I brought along the last of Carol's peanut butter thingies -- the Wheat Thins and PB drenched in chocolate, plus some sparkling wine and sparkling grape juice). It was a pretty low-key night by adult standards (though the kids were thrilled...they got to stay up past midnight, and do the whole horns-hats-streamers-confetti-SillyString routine). I should be plotting a great breakfast for hubby and I tomorrow....I'm counting on the little ones sleeping til at least 11 a.m. Chris |
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In article <tdNtf.3083$0c.2373@trnddc07>, Chris > wrote:
> >"serene" > wrote in message .. . >> Well, not frenzy, exactly. More like relaxed puttering, and I'm loving >> it. > >Yeah, that's fun! Yesterday I did nothing much - went to a party. I had made Christmas cake weeks before so the cooking effort was minimal - I haven't felt well lately. Today at church coffee hour I saw the cranberry-orange bread and peppermint bark I dropped off on Christmas eve after the Dec 23 cooking frenzy. The bread has held up pretty well wrapped and did not taste like it had been sitting around for a week. (recipe for Orange-Nut bread on my blog sidebar , no nuts, half a bag of cranberries chopped up in the FP per loaf ... although I think it would be better with nuts I left them out for public consumption.) Today I will be cooking lentil soup - since I have some slab bacon around, I'm probably going to use it in the soup instead of doing my regular curried lentil - and starting to make lemon curd out of all the Meyer lemons I got given by Miss Tammy. It's wet and windy, so I don't want to go out AT ALL. Relaxed puttering is the order of the day. Charlotte http://loveandcooking.blogspot.com -- |
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:42:19 -0800, serene >
wrote: >Don't forget you can always raid my partner's tree if you need more >lemons. Are they Meyer lemons? If so, could I raid the tree for lemons, to make limoncello? Christine |
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Christine Dabney > wrote: >On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:42:19 -0800, serene > >wrote: > >>Don't forget you can always raid my partner's tree if you need more >>lemons. woohoo! >Are they Meyer lemons? If so, could I raid the tree for lemons, to >make limoncello? Got a preferred recipe? I have the lemons ;-) Charlotte -- |
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:16:48 -0800, Christine Dabney
> wrote: >On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 13:42:19 -0800, serene > >wrote: > >>Don't forget you can always raid my partner's tree if you need more >>lemons. > >Are they Meyer lemons? If so, could I raid the tree for lemons, to >make limoncello? > They are, and yes. I can pick some up at the open house tonight. You can either pick them up tonight at the party (in San Leandro -- details in email if you like), or you can come by my place or the Bowl later in the week. Let me know. serene |
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:40:56 -0800, serene >
wrote: >On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:16:48 -0800, Christine Dabney >>Are they Meyer lemons? If so, could I raid the tree for lemons, to >>make limoncello? >> > >They are, and yes. I can pick some up at the open house tonight. You >can either pick them up tonight at the party (in San Leandro -- >details in email if you like), or you can come by my place or the Bowl >later in the week. Let me know. > >serene It will have to be later in the week. I am heading down to southern California tomorrow morning, for a few days. I need about 12 lemons. ;) Thanks so very much! Christine |
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:45:01 -0800, Christine Dabney
> wrote: > >It will have to be later in the week. I am heading down to southern >California tomorrow morning, for a few days. I need about 12 lemons. >;) If the tree has a dozen or so to give up, I'll grab 'em for you. Send me an email and we can figure out a time to meet. serene, who made such yummy jelly with them last year |
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(Charlotte L. Blackmer) wrote: > In article <tdNtf.3083$0c.2373@trnddc07>, Chris > > wrote: > > > >"serene" > wrote in message > .. . > >> Well, not frenzy, exactly. More like relaxed puttering, and I'm loving > >> it. > > > >Yeah, that's fun! > > Yesterday I did nothing much - went to a party. I had made Christmas cake > weeks before so the cooking effort was minimal - I haven't felt well > lately. > > > Today I will be cooking lentil soup - since I have some slab bacon > Charlotte > http://loveandcooking.blogspot.com > -- Charlotte, dahling! Happy New Year to you and I hope you're feeling better. What do you do for that lentil soup? I love lentils - I made a vat of 15-bean soup from Beck's Christmas ham bone and added a cup of lentils towards the end of the cook time. Rob's actually been eating the soup on his own (as opposed to being subtly coerced) - he's loving it. I'm thinking about another pot of soup - just lentils this time, and would like to know how you do yours. I'll be winging mine and will soon decide what sort of pork I'll use for some meaty flavor. When Niece Jo and I were in the Vysoky Tatry in Slovakia in 1990 we spent a night in a mountain cabin with my Cousin The Sonofabitch and his son, and prepared a lentil concoction over rice for our evening meal. It was pretty good. My recollection of it is that involved some smoked sausage, onion, tomatoes, and lentils cooked to a thick stew consistency (I think the lentils retained their shape) for service over white rice. Good stuff. Take care of you. -Barb -- http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 1-1-2006, Sam I Am! and Hello! |
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On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:45:01 -0800, Christine Dabney
> wrote: >On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:40:56 -0800, serene > >wrote: > >>On Sun, 01 Jan 2006 14:16:48 -0800, Christine Dabney > >>>Are they Meyer lemons? If so, could I raid the tree for lemons, to >>>make limoncello? >>> >> >>They are, and yes. I can pick some up at the open house tonight. You >>can either pick them up tonight at the party (in San Leandro -- >>details in email if you like), or you can come by my place or the Bowl >>later in the week. Let me know. >> >>serene > >It will have to be later in the week. I am heading down to southern >California tomorrow morning, for a few days. I need about 12 lemons. >;) > >Thanks so very much! I probably have 15 times that many on the tree still!! If I drink all those Delilahs, there's going to be trouble I tell you, trouble with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for .... ahem. If you want to meet me in Davis later in the week (Thursday or Friday) I can give them to you. Or next week even. We could do lunch at that wonderful Afghani restaurant that I love so much. TammyM (posted and emailed) |
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