Thursday, November 29, 2007
interesting ways to eat thanksgiving leftovers
Those roasted vegetables were really good with hot breads and sweet mangoes. It is ok if you don't get the breads joke. Also I've been eating a lot of pie for breakfast. Mmm, hot pie.
Friday, November 23, 2007
pumpkin story
My family visited my house for Thanksgiving dinner today. Yes, today is Friday. We always do that - it lets them use Thursday for driving. Works just fine. I made some great food: a pumpkin stuffed with roasted veggies, the wild rice stuffing that's become a family favorite, and a simple, delicious asparagus salad. It was complicated, interesting cooking, so I took a lot of pictures.
When my brother arrived at my house on Wednesday, we started preparations by making the vegetable broth that would go into the pumpkins' stew. This (which we later thickened slightly so it was more stew-like) was my favorite thing out of the whole meal. The roasted pumpkin was cool, presentation-wise, but this broth was just ridiculously good.
Thursday we put the stuffing together, and I don't have pictures of that. But there are a lot of pictures of the final stage of preparation from today. We hollowed out the pumpkins (which were actually just pumpkin-like squashes), first...
Then we roasted them empty for a little while - since they're the biggest thing they needed a head start.
They came out looking very pretty.
These vegetables were all roasted, too (on the outside of the pumpkins). I forgot to put the beans in, but I intended to include great northern beans as a substitute for the seitan the recipe called for. Then we put the vegetables and the sauce inside the partially-roasted pumpkins and roasted the whole thing a little longer.
The pumpkins came out beautiful and delicious. It was a little hard to access the deliciousness at first, though.
The last thing I made was this salad: roasted asparagus with lemon juice, blue cheese, and tomatoes. Everyone always likes it. I liked this wine, too - I am generally a fan of vinho verde.
When my brother arrived at my house on Wednesday, we started preparations by making the vegetable broth that would go into the pumpkins' stew. This (which we later thickened slightly so it was more stew-like) was my favorite thing out of the whole meal. The roasted pumpkin was cool, presentation-wise, but this broth was just ridiculously good.
Thursday we put the stuffing together, and I don't have pictures of that. But there are a lot of pictures of the final stage of preparation from today. We hollowed out the pumpkins (which were actually just pumpkin-like squashes), first...
Then we roasted them empty for a little while - since they're the biggest thing they needed a head start.
They came out looking very pretty.
These vegetables were all roasted, too (on the outside of the pumpkins). I forgot to put the beans in, but I intended to include great northern beans as a substitute for the seitan the recipe called for. Then we put the vegetables and the sauce inside the partially-roasted pumpkins and roasted the whole thing a little longer.
The pumpkins came out beautiful and delicious. It was a little hard to access the deliciousness at first, though.
The last thing I made was this salad: roasted asparagus with lemon juice, blue cheese, and tomatoes. Everyone always likes it. I liked this wine, too - I am generally a fan of vinho verde.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
look what I made
One of my favorite food blogs had a recipe for peppers like this a long time ago, except they had them in a sweet peanut-ful sauce. I didn't feel like going to all the trouble, so I'm just going to eat them with yogurt. I really love yogurt.
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