food

[cellio]

To steal a phrase from mamadeb, I am parallel-processing woman tonight.

Tonight I made:
- honey chicken for tomorrow night
- barbeque chicken for Shabbat
- gefilte fish
- "pineapple" kugel (except I didn't have pineapple so I used mandarins instead), recipe via cahwyguy
- three honey cakes
- two dozen hard-boiled eggs (don't need 'em until Yom Kippur break-fast, but as long as I was cooking anyway...)
- tonight's dinner (baked fish and roasted corn)

Not bad for two hours' work. (Well, plus baking time at the end, but I didn't have to participate.)

I made stewed veggies Sunday, and I'll make salads at the last minute. I might roast some veggies for Shabbat; today's visit to the farmer's market resulted in some good options there. And I have fruit, of course, including the obligatory apples and honey.

Yup, I think I'm just about ready culinarily.

Comments

[goljerp]

I was thinking about the tomato sauce option. The thing that I didn't make clear is that this is just one, medium-sized zucchini. Zucchina? So I wasn't sure if it was worth it just for a little bit o' food.

Although now that I've gotten a bit of sleep, I'm thinking that there's nothing to prevent me from buying more, so that it is worth it...

The Kugel recipe is easy for me to give you; it's already in electronic format. My commentary is in ()s, because I'm feeling too lazy to play with tags. The recipe itself is pretty simple, at least for me, because I've done it alot.

1 lb cooked broad egg noodles (extra-broad is fine too)
1/4 lb margarine (1/8th lb also works)
2 cups peeled apple, cut up.
1 number 2 can crushed pineapple & juice
1 cup apricots, cut up (I usually use canned apricots, although dried apricots will work also.)
3 eggs, beaten
3/4 cup sugar (I usually use between 1/4 and 1/2 cup)

Combine all ingredients. Bake at 350 degrees for about 1 1/2 hours or less. (If you put the pineapple into the baking pan first, then put the cut apple in with it, the pineapple juice will prevent the apple from getting brown. And it helps if you add the hot noodles last so you can distribute the margarine evenly while mixing.)

[cellio]

Zucchini: or, if you don't feel like buying more, just slice it (raw) and eat with hummus. This only helps if you already have hummus, of course. :-)

"Zucchini" is one of those words that looks like it's already plural, isn't it?

Thanks for the kugel recipe! Sounds yummy. What's a #2 can?

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

> "Zucchini" is one of those words that looks like it's already plural, isn't it?

It *is*. Singular is "zucchino" but nobody ever uses it, because zukes never come in quantities of just one. Remember, for another week it is still unsafe to leave your car doors unlocked out in the country. ;->

-Dave/Evan (in his Italian language geek hat)

[cellio]

Singular is "zucchino" but nobody ever uses it, because zukes never come in quantities of just one.

Or rarely do, anyway. :-) Thanks for the info!

(Yeah, I know about the unlocked-car problem. The urban version involves sharing the bounty of one's garden with coworkers. :-) )