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Braided Spinach Bread and Minestrone Soup

Few things are more relaxing than making bread and soup (when it works). And this worked:

[Getting the raw ingredients chopped, some red onions, shallots, celery and lots of carrots with some beans, canned, and dried inside a soup mix of pasta and split peas]
I got a dry mix of minestrone and followed the package […]

Orzo with Tangerine Sauce

Orzo with a sauce of tangerines, vinegar and olive oil and hefty grilled portobello mushrooms brushed with rosemary-infused olive oil. Beside that microwaved, then baked,carrots and celery.

Thin Crust Pizza and Edame

We had a meal at Bridges Restaurant. The pizza was thin crust, 4 cheese, basil and tomatoes. No complaints. My hunger dulled my finer appreciation in the inhale.
More interesting was to see how someone else does edamame, i.e. green soy beans. Large crystal salt was interesting with garlic, chili peppers and ginger. […]

Rambutan

Rambutan, an Asian fruit, like a lychee inside, is perfumy like a mango on the tongue.

Passion Fruit

Passion fruit is a realllly good marketing name. The outer rind is more like a pretty thin shell.
Inside, it jiggles. It’s like a de-saturated, low-flavor, pomegranate. You know how a Montreal-style bagel makes your jaw ache with all that chewing of the dense bread?
Same idea but shift the sensation to the tongue […]

Red Lettuce Salad Leads to Ice Cream

Red lettuce salad with tomatoes and English cukes, drizzled with raspberry vinaigrette, bit of gnocchi and sauce, hummus and bread (ciabatta, isn’t it?)

Walker’s shortbread with blackberries and some Bailey’s ice cream.

Barley with Chestnuts and Lobster Mushrooms

So we take the (correct can of) chestnuts:

[They look like brains, are vaguely squishy and sweet. Huh. That isn’t too gross is it?]
Soak to rehydrate and fry mushrooms:

[Looks so pretty. Wonder if the bright color will stay.]
Take some these, and it’s starting to aroma the room nicely.

I substituted flat (New Year’s) bubbly for the alcohol […]