I just found a salsa that was so bad, I threw it out after the second use. And it takes a lot for me to give up on food.
So if you happen across Old el Paso Pineapple – avoid!
It was bitter and had a strong overtone of celery. I can make a much better pineapple salsa.
I just found a salsa that was so bad, I threw it out after the second use. And it takes a lot for me to give up on food.
So if you happen across Old el Paso Pineapple – avoid!
It was bitter and had a strong overtone of celery. I can make a much better pineapple salsa.
Okay, so here’s a tentative list of dishes I could make for the Roman Cooking Workshop I’m hosting on October 25.
All recipes are from the Flower and Rosenbaum translation of Apicius.
boil the boar in sea-water* with sprigs of laurel until it is tender. Take off the skin. Serve with salt, mustard, and vinegar.
*Cato (De Agricultura, 106) gives
directions for the treatment of sea-water: “Take 6 gallons of sea-water from the deep sea, where no fresh-water comes in. Pound 1.5 lb of salt, put it in, and stir with a stick until a boiled hen’s egg will float on it, then stop mixing. Add 12 pints old wine,
So I’ve made carnitas, but I’ve never brined a pork roast. I have had great success with using pork loins in carnitas even though they have less fat than the recommended recipe. But, if I’m going to cook off most of the water for maximum flavor and shred-ability, I probably want to cut back on the salt and just make a mild saline solution to put the bay leaves in. Since I already have a pork loin in my freezer, this recipe will definitely be made.
Chop the stalks, place in a new shallow pan, having added pepper, lovage, and a little honey. Blend with liquamen, add a little oil. [Cook.]
For those just turning in, liquamen is a salty fermented fish sauce.
I’d need to buy mushrooms, and since I have nothing planned for the caps, we might as well make this out of whole mushrooms.
Put in the saucepan oil, liquamen, wine, chop in dry shallot, add diced shoulder of pork cooked previously. When all this is cooked pound pepper, cumin, dried mint, and dill, moisten with honey, liquamen, passum, a little vinegar, and some of the cooking-liquor; mix well. Add the stoned apricots. Bring to the boil, and let it boil until done. Crumble pastry to bind. Sprinkle with pepper and serve.
I’d use dried apricots, but all of the wet cooking should do well by them. And I just happen to have diced shoulder of pork cooked previously already sitting in my freezer. I’ll have to see if there is any mint left growing. I do not think I have dill.
stew quinces with leeks in honey, liquamen, oil, and defrutum and serve; or boil with [just a little water and then very slowly in] honey.
If I can find quinces at the farmers’ market this weekend, I am totally trying this.
toast pine kernels and chopped nuts, pound with honey, pepper, liquamen, milk, and eggs. [cook in] a little oil
I have a lot of pine nuts in my freezer. And I have pecans and almonds (and maybe some walnuts). I’d have to buy milk.
fried carrots – serve with a mixture of wine and liquamen
another method – [serve raw?] with salt, pure oil, and vinegar
I’d need to buy fresh carrots, and since none of the recipes in the section mentioned pasnips specifically, I could probably use a mixture of the two for the cooked one. For the second one, I’m thinking of shredding the raw carrots.
Boil and halve the cabbages, mince the tender parts of the leaves with coriander, onion, cumin, pepper, passum or caroenum, and a little oil
Since you are boiling it whole, I’m thinking more like blanching would be best.
had the opportunity to go is more likely to have been the walking type, but otherwise I’m stuck trusting random reviews from internet sites.
Actually, a good link for comparative tour reviews would also be helpful.
Food I Have
Produce
1 onion
dried tomatoes
2 apples
1 roasted sweet potato
tomatoes (red, green, and in between)
moldy carrots
kale
ginger
roasted garlic
5 small-medium zucchini
brussel sprouts
apple cider
orange juice
Meat and the like
1 jar of vegetable stock
2 oz chicken breast, cut up
carnitas
bacon
5 eggs
a whole bunch of stuff in the freezer (including freezer-tasting beef)
Dairy
Only 3 creamers (pick up more from work)
lots of 6oz containers of yogurt
tail end of a sour cream container
cheese (cream, cheddar, smoked cheddar, sharp stuff from Milk’n’Honey)
Prepared food
pie crust
4-6 servings of butternut squash soup
green tomato salsa
Scheduling that
Monday, October 19
breakfast: kale and tomatoes cooked down with sour Thai curry paste – poached egg on top
12:30 go to work
dinner: soup – pretzels and cheesy dip made from carnitas, cheddar, cream cheese, and salsa
tasks: vacuum bedroom and kitchen
watch Criminal Minds
Tuesday, October 20
8:30-9:45 yoga
tasks: gardening – continue tying up the roma tomato plant and harvesting from it.
food prep – cut herbs and fill up jar of herbed mayonnaise
make roasted garlic and parsley cream cheese
breakfast – bacon, egg, and bagel
tasks: take lunches in to work
2:30 go to work
finish menu planning for Roman cooking workshop
claim missing issues of Economist, Newsweek, Time, and Jet
steal more creamers from work
7:15-8:15 belly dancing
dinner – chicken, last of the carrots, and a zucchini with some curry paste (start a new can) and rice noodles. Without coconut milk? (divide out a portion to freeze for lunch)
prep laundry
pull out a steak to thaw
put away any miscellany on the kitchen or bedroom tables
watch Criminal Minds
Wednesday, October 21
ETA: wake up before dawn and see if there is any of the Orionids meteor shower visible in the city
tasks: get laundry washed and hung on the line (without stepping in crap from the new neighbor’s dog)
breakfast: zucchini, pork, and tomato in scrambled eggs
watch Criminal Minds
buy produce from the truck (onions, lemons, limes, peeled garlic – anything else?)
11am Karate (yeah, probably not)
12:30 go to work
email PhilCon guests
research bus tours in Rome
dinner: beef, brussel sprouts, and onion stir fry
bring laundry in and put away
move pork roast from freezer -> fridge
watch Criminal Minds
Thursday, October 22
8:30am go to work (pack bag with yoga clothes, hip scarves, veil, towel, and water bottle)
9:30am go to free breakfast
bind more periodicals
sort the microfilm ILL slips
5:14 bus to yoga
6-7:30 yoga
8-9 belly dancing
dinner: soup, smoked cheddar on the last of the saltines, apple
clean bathroom
watch last of the Criminal Minds
Friday, October 23
8:30-9:30 pilates
10-11:30 yoga
vacuum
wash out cat’s water bowl
buy groceries – peanut butter, dish soap, crackers, pasta sauce (anything else?)
12:30 go to work
9:05 bus home
have people over to watch Carnivale
dinner: soup
1am – drive out to West Chester
Saturday, October 24
9am – West Chester farmers market – exchange butter
go back home and go with parents to British pub for breakfast
Booth’s Corner
drive home
Any groceries still needed for Roman cooking workshop?
house clean?
Is there any Criminal Minds left unwatched? Supernatural? Merlin?
4-5:30 yoga
dinner: soup, carnitas quesadilla
Sunday, October 25
9:30 – put pork loin in water with bay leaves and start cooking on low/medium
10-11:30 yoga
11:45-12:45 pilates
1pm – make bed, tidy things
2pm Roman cooking workshop
6pm kick everybody out
clean
sleep
Monday, October 26
6:45-7:45 yoga?
wash dishes
10-11:15 yoga
12:30 go to work