cooking day!
Sep. 9th, 2023 12:05 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
0denseI've turned out to be the one most interested in cooking around here lately, but I've also just got the one day free lately, so it was a very kitchen day! I made: chickpea-sweet potato stew, red lentil soup, chicken paprikash, pickles, rendered schmaltz, and prepped fava beans :D most of the stew is frozen, and two units of soup, and one unit of paprikash (just one because I'm not sure it'll reheat as well as the veggies) so that's looking forward. chickpea/sweet potato and paprikash are my go-tos these days, and I'll get more feedback on the lentil soup but I generally think it'll be good for the shortlist too. Credit there to Chef Lola! I also did all of them rolling by starting with all the onions at once: about 6 (4 yellow, 2 red, 1/2 pale onion that was hanging out in the fridge) cooking down while I did all the other prep. I wouldn't have the confidence to do this with any higher proportion of new recipes, but I'm very very proud of how smoothly everything went for this cycle :)
In other thoughts: the wedding was altogether a blast! they played a bunch of pop/love songs covered in [bride's family's language], the best man read a poem he'd written them, there were four generations on the dance floor at once, the bride and groom both did lifts for their first dance, and yes, I did have a classy new mask just for the occasion.
And: I did a first potato harvest for the season! Emptied out the two big buckets and left one small planter where the stalks still look happy. There's been some overlap so I'm a little unsure, but I think I currently have my own fourth-generation russet line going on :) and second-generation purple skin/white flesh variety from a neighbor who grew it for a while. I'm phasing out one russet-ish line because they didn't keep well and I don't want to bother with that, but I'll give another shot to some fingerlings :) but honestly I'd rather give the dirt a break from solanums entirely for a while, you know? just for the principle of the thing! the problem being that I've got a bunch of seed ready to go in, and can't find my beet seeds to jump in with :/ maybe I'll just sow potatoes in one of the big buckets, and see if the nursery has something fun to take the other for a few months? I've got a nice pinch of clover mix to put out when it gets wet enough for things to stick, so I do hope that'll reinforce the general groundcover situation for next year.
And speaking of the garden: I also did plant a rosemary! I need to find more time to transplant some more, but the first one I got to is SO happy about it :D all fluffy little leaves and handfuls of little flowers around! hopefully next week I can put more in the dirt :)
In other thoughts: the wedding was altogether a blast! they played a bunch of pop/love songs covered in [bride's family's language], the best man read a poem he'd written them, there were four generations on the dance floor at once, the bride and groom both did lifts for their first dance, and yes, I did have a classy new mask just for the occasion.
And: I did a first potato harvest for the season! Emptied out the two big buckets and left one small planter where the stalks still look happy. There's been some overlap so I'm a little unsure, but I think I currently have my own fourth-generation russet line going on :) and second-generation purple skin/white flesh variety from a neighbor who grew it for a while. I'm phasing out one russet-ish line because they didn't keep well and I don't want to bother with that, but I'll give another shot to some fingerlings :) but honestly I'd rather give the dirt a break from solanums entirely for a while, you know? just for the principle of the thing! the problem being that I've got a bunch of seed ready to go in, and can't find my beet seeds to jump in with :/ maybe I'll just sow potatoes in one of the big buckets, and see if the nursery has something fun to take the other for a few months? I've got a nice pinch of clover mix to put out when it gets wet enough for things to stick, so I do hope that'll reinforce the general groundcover situation for next year.
And speaking of the garden: I also did plant a rosemary! I need to find more time to transplant some more, but the first one I got to is SO happy about it :D all fluffy little leaves and handfuls of little flowers around! hopefully next week I can put more in the dirt :)
