27 fevrier / betsy : bread, spinach salad, zucchini casserole, strawberry sorbet 28 fevrier / lauren : black-eyed peas, collard greens, potato-cheddar bake, squash casserole, cornbread, peach cobbler 1 mars / keith : honey-apricot chicken, mushroom risotto with sundried tomatoes, banana splits 2 mars / […]
jessica and i (or, to better describe it, jessica) decided to throw a chinese new year bash this year. we decided to celebrate the following weekend due to impending homework. on our ambitious, but not too ambitious menu: scallion pancakes, a lotus root salad, vegetable […]
i organized finals dinners this semester, which went pretty smoothly although i’m not sure if everyone enjoyed their cooking team. i hope they did. here’s what we had:
lundi / anna-miriam-v: chicken tarragon (chicken with a tarragon-cream sauce), tofu tarragon, spanikopita, and a pear tart. i really like miriam’s chicken tarragon, and also spanikopita. pears i’m not wild about since i’m slightly allergic to them, but the crust was this great almondy, buttery thing which i’m afraid i didn’t eat enough of. i have extremely fond memories of eating chicken tarragon and rice for lunch during the next few days.
mardi / luis-marissa-v: gorgonzola risotto with balsamic tomato relish, roasted chicken, potato salad, fruit salad. i fully admit that the potato salad was just a result of the menu needing a vegetable and my yen for potato salad. i may have been the only person to eat it. it really would have gone better with wednesday’s menu, but i decided to slightly abuse my power. anyway, we were intending to make a sponge cake a la jessica (who made carrie’s birthday cake – a sponge cake filled with tokay-marinated peaches and iced with whipped cream) but we didn’t know the recipe and i had been too far behind in errands to get it. instead, since we had leftover fruit from diner de noel (more specifically, we had intended to make a fruit salad but didn’t), we made a fruit salad and whipped cream. i’m not a huge fan of fruit salad (various slight allergies), so i had figgy pudding with whipped cream, which is really a fabulous combination. the gorgonzola risotto was actually better in the vegetarian version (veg stock instead of chicken stock), and i was really surprised by the favorable reception that the risotto got, given that it had the gorgonzola (a mild blue cheese) in it. (as an aside: is anybody else bothered by the phrase “bleu cheese”? we are in the US, and we speak english. “blue cheese” is the phrase, not the mangled franglais “bleu cheese.”) the chicken, well, roasted chickens always give me problems. i took the temperature and it was still 20 degrees off, but the juices all ran clear. i took it out anyway, but the chicken in a few cases was really underdone. on the bright side, the gravy was quite good and i made a stew out of the leftover chicken a few days later. (more…)
i am absolutely in love with jessica’s warm pear charlotte. i am in love with jessica. dimanche / austin : couscous with raisins, roasted chicken, roatsted vegetables, far breton lundi / alice : salad, breadsticks, four-cheese ravioli with red pepper sauce, fruit salad with cannoli […]
dimanche / jessica : eggplant-tomato casserole, penne rosa, caramel-pear pudding cake lundi / anna : chicken curry, vegetable curry, palak paneer, naan, rice pudding mardi / marissa : onion pan bread, chicken mirabella, eggplant and onions in tomato cream sauce, fettuccine, green beans, tiramisu mercredi […]
just thought i’d start a record of lmf menus here. this is both for my own memory and to make those of you who don’t live with me jealous. ;p this week:
dimanche / george : salad, lebanese rice pilaf, grilled lebanese chicken, hummus, lebanese pastries (shatila)
lundi / diana : pork chops, potato casserole, apple bundles
mardi / kay : penne alla vodka, french onion soup, pumpkin muffins
mercredi / lisa : indian bean soup, potato pizza, dessert tba
vendredi / carrie : pork tenderloin with roasted apples and onions, sweet potato – leek pancakes, spaghetti squash with mushrooms, rice pilaf, black and whites