Shabbat (mostly about food)

[gnomi]

Between 3:45 and 7:30 PM on Friday afternoon, I made:

-- A pot of chicken soup (recipe from Ima-of-gnomi)
-- Brisket with potatoes and carrots (recipe from Ima-of-gnomi, but only sort of)
-- Roasted, marinated green beans with garlic and onions (recipe, long ago, from beckyfeld)
-- A gefilte fish loaf baked in honey (recipe from lucretia_borgia)
-- Yerushalmi kugel (recipe from vettecat)
-- Chicken Marsala (recipe from recipe book, as tweaked by gnomi with help from Craig-from-Butcherie)
-- Coconut-peppermint brownies (recipe from dancingdeer)

I served the first three on Friday night, when we hosted arib and Gwen-with-no-LJ. Dessert that night was cookies brought by Gwen, grapes, and chocolate in honor of Liza Doolittle Day.

The last four were served along with a salad (and the brownies were supplemented with cookies and chocolate) on Saturday for lunch, when we hosted tapuz and laurens10. The four of us then wandered around in the drizzle and saw some of the artists displaying for Brookline Open Studios (I was especially struck by the work of Lee Smith). We then walked to Comm Ave., where we turned left and they turned right to return home.

Comments

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Drool.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hee! Thanks!

[tinnean.livejournal.com]

Since you're talking about food, Nomi, (and very delicious, I might add) I have a question for you.

Working on a story. In the movie, No Way to Treat a Lady, the murderer, dressed in work clothes (he's supposed to be a plumber and has come to pound) and with a thick German accent, manages to get into his prospective victim's home. He flatters her about the dessert he sees on a console table, and she proudly tells him she makes --- okay, is it google hoops, or kugel hoops?

I asked myself that upon reading about the Yerushalmi kugel you made. Any idea?

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Hmm...I've never heard of kugel hoops. Kugel is a sort of casserole-type dish, with noodles or potato, usually.

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

Might the prospective victim be referring to kugelhopf?

[zsero.livejournal.com]

Yes, I recall that mabfan is particularly (some might say inordinately) fond of Yerushalmi kugel. Speaking of which, will you be at Balticon, if so are we doing a KK dinner (if the answer to both is yes, then I'll bring Yerushalmi kugel, which I don't much care for, myself).

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

We're not going to Balticon; our cons are limited, mostly, to the Boston area this year.

[tsuki-no-bara.livejournal.com]

you MADE gefilte fish?? wow. also, i'm with fjm - *drool*

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

And the gefilte fish is much better home-made than the jarred stuff. And I cheat, kind of. I start with the frozen pre-made fish loaf rather than the fresh fish that has to be ground up. No Carp in the Bathtub for me. :-)

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

Glad you're still getting use out of that recipe! :-) So does this mean you finished moving all that stuff down to storage? If so, mazel tov! I know that was a big project.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

It's a wonderful recipe. I like the fact that's a "do stuff and then ignore it for a bit" recipe; it fits in nicely when I'm doing 30 things at once.

As for our stuff, we're still in the process of moving it. Thanks for the encouraging words, though.

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I do like that recipe... I haven't actually made it in a while, but we've been too frazzled to have company lately. :-(

Good luck with the remainder of the project!