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Category: Food

farmers’ market bounty

I went to the farmers’ market this weekend, and ended up buying a bit much, so I’ll try to work it into recipes

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Bought:
5 very ripe tomatoes
4 small zucchini

Meal 1: Pasta primavera
the tomatoes, zucchini, fresh garlic, and fresh basil
with white wine and olive oil

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Bought:
Cauliflower
Mushrooms

Meal 2:
I want to make cauliflower and peas in a curry sauce… but I think I want an English curry instead of an Indian one… and recipe recommendations?

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Bought:
large purple eggplant

Meal 3: Eggplant curry
with an Indian recipe… tomatoes and stuff. I’ll need to buy cilantro for it because I’ve already used up all I have been growing.

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Bought:
4 white potatoes

Leftovers from dinner out for my father’s birthday:
roast prime rib

Meal 4: Hash
Cut into cubes and cook with onions and a bit of gravy

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Bought:
1 small purple and white striped eggplant
2 bell peppers

Meal 5: No idea… how about some Stir Fry? I have pork, beef, and chicken… or I could get some fresh tofu around the block.

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So… guessing by how ripe things are and by how long they’ll last, I think the meals need to go –
1, 3, 2, 5, 4

And, luckily, I only have an option for 5-10 hours of overtime this week, so I should have time and energy to cook.

Anyone want to opt in on a meal?

mix and match

I have the following ingredients:

1 bag o’ spinach
1 zucchini
3 tomatoes
1 nectarine
4 potatoes

and a container of fajitas leftovers – beef, chicken, grilled onions & peppers

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I could mix em all together with spices, cheese, and a jar of salsa and call it Mexican food… but I’ve been having a lot of vaguely Mexican food lately.

I also have several varieties of rice, pasta, and legumes… and it’s possible the heavy cream is still good.

Any interesting suggestions?

ETA: Went with original Mexicany plan – it was tasty.

Things I eat in strange ways

Nestle Signature Treasures – Creamy Caramel:
If you bite off the two ends, then you can suck out the caramel center with a *pop* and then eat the hollow chocolate repository.

Kit Kats:
So you snap off a single strip. Again, bite off the thick chocolate at the two narrow ends. Then, bite gently from the top, and you can lift off each crispy wafer individually and nibble on it one layer at a time.

Bananas:
So there’s the sexy way to eat bananas… and the straightfoward way… and then there is my way. y’see bananas come in (6) sections. If you break of a half or a third of the banana, you can persuade the sections to separate. It is almost impossible, however, to separate out an individual section, instead you have to eat them three by three or two by two by two.

M&Ms:
To the best of my knowledge, every librarian has an anal retentive system for eating M&Ms, so this isn’t that strange… but I eat them in color order, in sets of twos (one for each side of my mouth)… if I have an odd number for a color, the last one gets bitten in half… dark brown, orange, yellow, red, blue, green. And I am all excited about the dark M&Ms.

Oreos:
Again, everyone has a routine for eating oreos… but I don’t know anyone outside my family who tries for a naked middle. Seriously. We were doing this back when we were three. You need to start with a double stuff, because the regular ones just don’t have enough middle to support the proceedure. Then… twist off one cookie. Eat it. Then you try to eat all the rest of the other cookie off of the stuffing until you have a naked middle — this is very difficult and requires much practice. Now you try it.

When friends visit

*excerpted from a longer post*

And then there were thai food with noodles and tofu in a peanutty sauce. And desert of coconut ice cream in little coconut shells (which look just like breasts) from Trader Joe’s. If you shop there, I will make the recommendation: those ice creams were tasty, but improved greatly with the addition of Godiva’s chocolate liqueur.