Monday/10-Sep-18: Disappointing dinner. We had Easy Green Curry with Pork (Rains, p138). Used some of our little white eggplants from the potager, which have a really bitter taste. Don't need to make it again. Over basmati rice. Peaches and cream for dessert.
Tuesday/11-Sep-18: This morning we were sitting at breakfast when I saw a motion out of my eye. Thought is was a cat, come a-begging for a yogurt jar, but it turned out to be a tiny mouse dragging a dust bunny from its tail. It was barely moving. I threw a hand towel over it and we put it in a bucket outside. Unfortunately we left the bucket on the ground. After a bit we found the bucket empty and we suspect one of the cats had itself a little treat. The mouse was fully furred but its eyes were barely open. Don't know if it was sickly or a big baby. Feel a bit sad, except for the damage one (or two?) is doing in the pantry shelves.
Dinner was an oldie, half of Spicy Chicken Strips (CL90, 170). Pretty good stuff, even though it takes way more corn chips than asked to get a nice crispy coating. Served with guacamole, some "Spanish" rice, and some mixed veggies (broccoli, canned corn, canned roast pepper strips). A made-up dessert: I defrosted two squares of pâte feuilletée I found in the freezer. Mixed up the last of the mascarpone (about half of a 500g bakje) with an egg, some ground almonds, some lemon juice, a slog of amaretto. Lined a small casserole with the pastry and covered the bottom with frozen, pitted cherries, then topped with the mascarpone mixture. After baking it a while, I realized that I'd forgotten to add sugar, so I sprinkled some brown sugar on the top. It baked about 20min at 400F and another bit at about 350F. Still a bit runny, but tasty. I'm full.
Yogurt on overnight.
Wednesday/12-Sep-18: Shopping today.
Dinner was a halfish recipe of Roasted Salmon & Butternut Squash Salad (EW/sep-oct15, web), with tuna instead of salmon. And that was barbecued, rather than cooked in the oven with the squash. The salad was excellent and a good foil for the fish. Chocolate-covered madeleines for dessert.
Thursday/13-Sep-18: Dinner was (sort of) Fideos with Pasilla Chiles, Avocado, and Crema (VegSups, p61). My pasillas were moldy, and so were my guajillos, so I used anchos (and now need to get more of them all). The two of us ate the whole recipe, meant of four. Tasty stuff. Forgot to prep the avocado, which I'd saved, and forgot to serve the Pickled Onions (VegSups, p169) that I'd made up as garnish. Oh well. We ate well anyhow.
Friday/14-Sep-18: Just before I came down to cook dinner, an ex-colleague from Uniface days showed up on the doorstep. He and his wife are camping in the area and used our old blog to find the place. They're thinking of moving to the area.
Dinner started with insalata caprese, with one store-bought tomatoes and several small ones from the potager. This year's tomatoes are all small instead of the 500g monsters we've had in the past. Maybe from the dry spell we had while we were away in June. Then we had Lemon Orzo with Avocado and Herbs (web). I think this recipe is meant as a side dish A double recipe was a nice dinner for two. And a pretty bare salad for after.
Yogurt on overnight.
Saturday/15-Sep-18: Off to Île de Ré today. Nothing happened in the kitchen.
Sunday/16-Sep-18: Nothing happened in the kitchen.
Progress on goals
This week: #1 BACKLOG: no; #2 VEG/FISH: 3; #3 COOKBOOK: yes
Cookbooks of the month: Vegetarian Suppers
This month: #4 PASTA: no; #5 BREAD: no; #6 GUESTS: no
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Monday, September 10, 2018
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