Less talkin, Moroccan

PS. That is not an editorial comment at the previous post!

Easter:

One need not blog to live, but one must eat . . . and how we've been eating! Easter breakfast

Pancakes (thanks to Shanna) with butter, jam, peanut butter, syrup, ricotta cheese and bananas for topping (syrup-bananas-ricotta combo, oh, so good) with mimosas, fried eggs, and orange and grapefruit slices. Can you believe we thought of dinner after such a meal?

But we did . . .

Lauryl cooked up salmon, Shanna roasted beets, and I made wild rice pelof.

And Lauryl made up a whole other entree! She cooked herself out. Shanna and Lauryl gave up cheese for Lent, so Easter had to include something with cheese: a sort of primavera lasagna, ricotta in the layers, asparagus, mushrooms, peas and zucchini. We were stuffed. We skipped dessert.

Beef and Porter Pie, give or take

Butter and olive oil for sauteeing
Half to 2 pounds ground/any type beef
1 onion, chopped
Middle of the garlic head/a few huge cloves, minced
2 carrots, sliced
2 celeries, sliced
7 big baby bella caps, chopped
1 bottle porter or any dark beer
Some water
Few pinches of thyme
Bay leaf
Salt and pepper
IT butter and IT flour for roux (optional)
Pie dough

Cook meat, saute veggies, pour liquid into veggies and simmer for ages or add a roux. Put it all together and bake at 425 until crust looks good or someone bites your arm. Eat with peas and cheese-covered cauliflower for optimal effect.

Oasis World Market in Blacksburg, VA

Red bean flavoured popsicles, fufu flour, mint drinkable yogurt (delicious), jarred lotus rootlets--

strawberry puding mix (or in English, pudding)--

and inordinate carrots.

Mushrooms have bubbles? Is that OK?

Me: 2. Oven: 0.

Round Things and Yay-We-Made-It-Through-Finals Oysters

IT'S ALIIIIIIIVE

(Unidentified Exploding Object)

(tomato seeds)

Delicious placebo

We're all sick. Chicken soup makes it better. As does coffee.




4 big cloves of garlic, chopped
4 quarter-sized leeks (white and light green parts), chopped & rinsed meticulously
7 large, or to taste, baby bella mushrooms, sliced thin
2 glugs olive oil

2 small celery sticks, sliced
1 or 2 carrots, sliced thin
Bay leaf or two, salt, thyme, tarragon, oregano, poultry seasoning? (just don't go by color)
1/4c nutritional yeast (well worth the trip to the co-op or whatever hippie store)
2 boxes of chicken broth, or enough canned to submerge all the goodies

Black pepper
Noodles or some kind of grain, cooked
Parmesan cheese (optional)

Get the biggest pot you have and saute the leeks, garlic, and shrooms until the mushroom juice is almost all reabsorbed. Then throw in the stuff up to the broth, cook just until carrots are edible, and administer pepper, carbs, and cheese at will.

1/2 pound logic, chopped

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