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Slowwwww food and good company
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gerisullivan is staying with us for a few days, and it seemed to me that comfort foods were called for.
So, we made slowwww food for dinner.
(1) Buy one fowl. (The local turkey farm also keeps chickens for their eggs. Once they've squeezed every last egg out of them, the birds are tough, stringy, and perfect for soup.)
Boil the hell out of the fowl. Make chicken soup (with carrots and celery and mushrooms and shallots and egg noodles) and an extra gallon of stock, plus extra chicken for chicken salad.
(2) Bake peach pie. (Note this does not say "make" - a local farm stand does the hard bits, freezes them, and then one takes the result home and bakes them. We had one in the freezer.)
(3) Make cheese bread. (I love this recipe. Love, love, love it. It is one of the easiest yeast breads I have ever made, and it is filled with yummy, cheesy goodness from cheddar and parmagiano reggiano. If you are from New England, a scant tablespoon of tomato paste makes it vaguely orange. Our friends [and the soup kitchen we cook for] love this recipe, too.)
(4) Get vanilla ice cream (for pie) from local dairy with happy cows.
So, really, it's been a house filled with wondrous smells for *hours*.
Excuse me...time to have pie.
gerisullivan is staying with us for a few days, and it seemed to me that comfort foods were called for.So, we made slowwww food for dinner.
(1) Buy one fowl. (The local turkey farm also keeps chickens for their eggs. Once they've squeezed every last egg out of them, the birds are tough, stringy, and perfect for soup.)
Boil the hell out of the fowl. Make chicken soup (with carrots and celery and mushrooms and shallots and egg noodles) and an extra gallon of stock, plus extra chicken for chicken salad.
(2) Bake peach pie. (Note this does not say "make" - a local farm stand does the hard bits, freezes them, and then one takes the result home and bakes them. We had one in the freezer.)
(3) Make cheese bread. (I love this recipe. Love, love, love it. It is one of the easiest yeast breads I have ever made, and it is filled with yummy, cheesy goodness from cheddar and parmagiano reggiano. If you are from New England, a scant tablespoon of tomato paste makes it vaguely orange. Our friends [and the soup kitchen we cook for] love this recipe, too.)
(4) Get vanilla ice cream (for pie) from local dairy with happy cows.
So, really, it's been a house filled with wondrous smells for *hours*.
Excuse me...time to have pie.
