food, glorious food!
I love no-event weekends. This weekend's goal was to clean out my freezer of the random accumulation of ingredients and find the kitchen after several weeks of events in a row. I think I very nearly succeeded in making a cheese soufflé. This one actually looked like a souffle, unlike my previous attempt which looked like a child's science project on the topic of Mars. I also discovered that 6-7 pounds of onions will just fit in my crock pot, and after 24 hours will result in apx 4 cups of caramelized onions; can't decide if it was worth the effort of not.
I found 3/4s of a jar of almond butter in the cupboard. I didn't like the cookies made with it, and seem disinclined to eat it, so it's free to a good home at Coronet.
Friday night I made chicken mole for lunches and a variant on porkchops in mustard crumbs for our Gourmet Magazine Memorial Dinner. Saturday was cornbread for breakfast, pork buns for lunch, and cheese souffle with salad and smoked lamb ribs for dinner. Four ginger tarts went into the freezer. Sunday breakfast of bacon and potato knishes. First snack of mushroom pasties, second snack of tomato and basil bruscetta, then GM made braised short ribs for dinner. A mac-n-cheese casserole went into the freezer.
My next free weeekend, I want to roast a practice goose. Hopefully that will happen 1Nov09. I also think I'm starting to get lasagne withdrawl.