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Friday dinner is Buffet Nite, the fridge is cleared of leftovers and everyone chooses what they want to eat. There is fresh pita bread as a base for anyone creating their personal designed pizza with a tomato base, ham, bacon, strip steak, lamb, hot dogs, veggie sticks, pineapple, fruit salad, 3 types of cheese and salad makings. Everyone has a different schedule and DKs often bring friends. I made Brownies this AM and there is ice cream for support.
We are expecting a major storm this evening so it will be cold. I plan to try-out a new gift, a Mandolin to slice root veggies and make crock pot stew
I have found a tin in the back of the pantry with no label.
I opened it and it looked like meat.
Im cooking it now it smells really bad.
Ive found a dry crust but Ive no butter.
Yum Yum.
While i planned to make linguini in clam sauce, DH thought it too hot for pasta so grabbed some frozen chicken thighs from the freezer early AM, defrosted in microwave while I 1st soaked dried mushrooms in boiling water as base for the marinade for Chinese style hot pot. By 5:00 PM rice in rice cooker, chicken cooks in 1/2 marinade while cornstarch thickens the 2nd half for use as sauce at table. Home grown green beans blanched with spears of red, yellow, orange sweet peppers will support the re constituted giant mushrooms.
My neighbor was here for coffee this AM and brought a batch of giant Smarties cookies. These were her 1st attempt at over-sized cookies. Tasted good but uneven thicknesses. She borrowed my biscuit cutter and hoped it would help for batch #2.
Guests for dinner create opportunity to bake leg of lamb gifted from a neighbor who only eats lamb chops [her DH bought lamb cut due to lower cost per serving], baked potatoes, layered salad, our garden grown green beans, mint jelly, strawberries on home made pound cake.
If there are leftovers, Tuesday's plan-over will be Moroccan Style crockpot stew as I don't have an earthenware Tajine. I'm hoping to send stew for two to neighbor who supplied the lamb in the hope she might try lamb presented differently.
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