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Food porn time!
I spent, oh... let's see: out of the past six weeks, I've been away from home for about four weeks. So I didn't do a lot of cooking and shopping in between, because it didn't seem worthwhile to buy a lot of food in order to watch it go bad while I was away.
Also, the last time the boy and I were at the liquor store was in preparation for the 2008 election night party, so it'd been a while.
So yesterday, we went to the liquor store. I now have enough kahlua and Irish cream to make legions of froofy coffee drinks, which is good, because we probably won't make it back to the liquor store until another year passes. ;)
And today, we went to the farmer's market! I am particularly pleased with the spoils of that quest.
In terms of meat, we got a chicken (which will be roasted for dinner), plus chicken feet and necks for stock; sweet Italian sausage (for a potato, sausage and onion fry-up sometime next week); and a keta salmon fillet, which I may glaze and grill or I may sous vide.
Veg was, of course, the largest haul: purple kale and curly green kale (one of which will be turned onto udon soup with kale); brussels sprouts (for warm shredded sprout salad); a mixed bag of root vegetables for braising or roasting (looks like a mix of carrots, potatoes, turnips, beets, and rutabagas); a huge bag of carrots; and a small bag of assorted mixed potatoes. Also, a bag each of dried chanterelle and lobster mushrooms, which I will combine with the fresh crimini mushrooms I have on hand to make a mushroom risotto.
We also got dried field peas (which I'm thinking of using in peas and rice, or possibly in soup); dried cranberry beans (definitely for beans and rice); and fresh wheat flour, by which I mean milled just last week. The wheat flour will be used to try to make a classic baguette, and I'm also using it to reboot my sourdough starter, which got a bit grim-looking after a few months of neglect.
Finally, a few treats: a gallon of Honeycrisp cider, a box of very gingery molasses-ginger caramels, a small round of camembert-style cheese.
Dinner tonight: roast chicken and vegetables, with an apple salad on the side. Tomorrow: vegetable-chicken soup with the leftover chicken, and fresh baguette. I'm also going to experiment with planning out a week's worth of meals, so we'll see how that goes.
Mmm. Now to clean the kitchen so I have room to put this all away....
I spent, oh... let's see: out of the past six weeks, I've been away from home for about four weeks. So I didn't do a lot of cooking and shopping in between, because it didn't seem worthwhile to buy a lot of food in order to watch it go bad while I was away.
Also, the last time the boy and I were at the liquor store was in preparation for the 2008 election night party, so it'd been a while.
So yesterday, we went to the liquor store. I now have enough kahlua and Irish cream to make legions of froofy coffee drinks, which is good, because we probably won't make it back to the liquor store until another year passes. ;)
And today, we went to the farmer's market! I am particularly pleased with the spoils of that quest.
In terms of meat, we got a chicken (which will be roasted for dinner), plus chicken feet and necks for stock; sweet Italian sausage (for a potato, sausage and onion fry-up sometime next week); and a keta salmon fillet, which I may glaze and grill or I may sous vide.
Veg was, of course, the largest haul: purple kale and curly green kale (one of which will be turned onto udon soup with kale); brussels sprouts (for warm shredded sprout salad); a mixed bag of root vegetables for braising or roasting (looks like a mix of carrots, potatoes, turnips, beets, and rutabagas); a huge bag of carrots; and a small bag of assorted mixed potatoes. Also, a bag each of dried chanterelle and lobster mushrooms, which I will combine with the fresh crimini mushrooms I have on hand to make a mushroom risotto.
We also got dried field peas (which I'm thinking of using in peas and rice, or possibly in soup); dried cranberry beans (definitely for beans and rice); and fresh wheat flour, by which I mean milled just last week. The wheat flour will be used to try to make a classic baguette, and I'm also using it to reboot my sourdough starter, which got a bit grim-looking after a few months of neglect.
Finally, a few treats: a gallon of Honeycrisp cider, a box of very gingery molasses-ginger caramels, a small round of camembert-style cheese.
Dinner tonight: roast chicken and vegetables, with an apple salad on the side. Tomorrow: vegetable-chicken soup with the leftover chicken, and fresh baguette. I'm also going to experiment with planning out a week's worth of meals, so we'll see how that goes.
Mmm. Now to clean the kitchen so I have room to put this all away....
