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Confessions of a culinary whore.....
Jun. 21st, 2008 12:53 amAn ice cream freezer and fresh mango; it's a good thing.
Guests are here, and so I'm channeling my inner Martha Stewart. My parents raised me with the notion that when guests are in your home, you pull out good food and put it on the good china. Well the good china gets hand washed, and the everyday ironstone is a matching service for 16 with all the bells and whistles for serving pieces. The food I make from scratch, at least mostly.
I find most or what gets passed of as American Cuisine rather boring. I was raised ethnic and that's how I cook. Not always my ethnic, but someone's. This weekend's fare includes Mexican, Greek, Italian, Romanian and Southwest influences.
And ICE CREAM. Mango. Low fat. No added sugar. Lactose free! Woot!
One of the guys coming for this weekend's meeting/retreat hails originally from Honolulu, and after the joy of perfect mango sweetness in Maui some weeks back, home made Mango ice cream just sounded so incredibly good.
Folks tonight seemed to be in agreement. We did in a Qt. of the stuff and half a pan of the Oaxican Brownies
The committee is a bit 'light' this weekend. We were supposed to be a committee of 9, although 2 people resigned early in the year. Unfortunately, Naming Committee has been unable to replace them. Two others were supposed to be here this weekend, one due to other commitments (perhaps I should say overcommitments) and the other for health reasons. The latter Friend feels called to resign as well. This all leaves a 9 member committee going into Yearly Meeting this year, needing Naming to find not 3 Friends for our committee, but 6. They are bloody well going to have their work cut out for them. However, this is not the rant for the moment of this post. No rant needed here, at least not now.
As I write I have the Spanish rice in simmering away. Finished the tomato sauce for the Rellenos a little bit ago. One Spanikopita has been baked, the second is ready to, chilling in the fridge under saran until its clear I need it. I bi-passed baking a brea, as well as making a third dessert. The peaches will be great to eat out of hand, rather than turned into strudel. Likely we'll breakfast on the Rellenos in the morning, Given our reduced numbers, we can afford to have them rather than the standard b'fast fare I'd planned.
The lasagna was a major hit tonight, and even still we only polished off a third. NO matter what, I suspect there will still be left-overs after Friends depart, mid-day Sunday.
Rice is done. Time for bed.
Guests are here, and so I'm channeling my inner Martha Stewart. My parents raised me with the notion that when guests are in your home, you pull out good food and put it on the good china. Well the good china gets hand washed, and the everyday ironstone is a matching service for 16 with all the bells and whistles for serving pieces. The food I make from scratch, at least mostly.
I find most or what gets passed of as American Cuisine rather boring. I was raised ethnic and that's how I cook. Not always my ethnic, but someone's. This weekend's fare includes Mexican, Greek, Italian, Romanian and Southwest influences.
And ICE CREAM. Mango. Low fat. No added sugar. Lactose free! Woot!
One of the guys coming for this weekend's meeting/retreat hails originally from Honolulu, and after the joy of perfect mango sweetness in Maui some weeks back, home made Mango ice cream just sounded so incredibly good.
Folks tonight seemed to be in agreement. We did in a Qt. of the stuff and half a pan of the Oaxican Brownies
The committee is a bit 'light' this weekend. We were supposed to be a committee of 9, although 2 people resigned early in the year. Unfortunately, Naming Committee has been unable to replace them. Two others were supposed to be here this weekend, one due to other commitments (perhaps I should say overcommitments) and the other for health reasons. The latter Friend feels called to resign as well. This all leaves a 9 member committee going into Yearly Meeting this year, needing Naming to find not 3 Friends for our committee, but 6. They are bloody well going to have their work cut out for them. However, this is not the rant for the moment of this post. No rant needed here, at least not now.
As I write I have the Spanish rice in simmering away. Finished the tomato sauce for the Rellenos a little bit ago. One Spanikopita has been baked, the second is ready to, chilling in the fridge under saran until its clear I need it. I bi-passed baking a brea, as well as making a third dessert. The peaches will be great to eat out of hand, rather than turned into strudel. Likely we'll breakfast on the Rellenos in the morning, Given our reduced numbers, we can afford to have them rather than the standard b'fast fare I'd planned.
The lasagna was a major hit tonight, and even still we only polished off a third. NO matter what, I suspect there will still be left-overs after Friends depart, mid-day Sunday.
Rice is done. Time for bed.
