Journal

2014 - Week 40 Cooking Results

Pizza!  (You will submit to me yeast!)

Once again, it was a return to form.  Dough rose as it should, had that nice spongy crust, with the wonderful crisp edges.  So the note here is that I need to pay attention to my yeast.  Turned out great, good stuffs.

Pumpkin Lasagna, Bread (TBD), Salad, Chopped Melon

A bit of a dinner party.  After seeing the recipe, and using their pumpkins, we invited over the proprietors of Grade A Gardens and their SOs and Joseph and his (early stage and possible) SO.  Joseph was kind enough to bake some bread for me and chop the melon and bake the bread and help me get the Lasagna in the oven (I left work a lot later then I intended).  I forgot to layer in some of the Prosciutto, which means it ended up on the top.  I added more whole milk, because the sauce didn't seem like there would be enough.  But then it ended up being a bit soupy.  Even with all that, it was both a successful dinner and a successful dinner party.  Good food, good company.  Time to have more dinner parties.

BLTs (probably the last of the season)

Ok one more.  Last pickings of the season from Jennie before she turns to the next chapter of her life.  I hope she does return to the restaurant and research farm idea that she has.

Hasenpfeffer

So uh...reading is hard.  But I did prep the rabbit so I can make it on Sunday.

Chicken Fajitas with Red Peppers, Onion and Lime

Simple, quick, delicious.

Slow Cooker Black Bean Soup

So in leaving the market, going to AllSpice to get spices (having trouble getting there due to the Race for the Cure), then finally heading home, I wasn't abel to get this slow-cooking until around noon.  to do the slower cook, means we would've been eating at 8-10 PM, which I didn't think would fly, so I did the faster cook (6-7 PM).  It turned out pretty well.  Nice flavor, nice smokiness.  The sour cream and hot sauce added after the fact added more rounding notes to it.  Quite good and very filling.