What are you eating?

[Opsa]

Ooh... we picked sour cherries in June and popped a bunch into vodka. I checked on the bottles last night. The cherries have blanched and the vodka is magenta! We'll open them around yule time.

We also tried this with black raspberries, but the berries look a little fuzzy in there! Not a good sign! 

Had leftover spinach ziti with home-made pesto for lunch!

[Lindorm]

Cherries are indeed nice little creatures, and your homemead cherry vodka sounds like a very nice little treat, a little splash of summer for the middle of the winter so to say!

We sometimes make a "Rumtopf", a large glass or glazed ceramic vessel that is filled with fruits of the season (plums, cherries, apricots...), perhaps a sprinkle of sugar and a sprig or two of melissa or some other nice herb, and topped of with rum. This is then hidden in a cupboard somewhere and brought out in winter when you feel the need for a bit of summer. We usually eat the fruit as a sort of compote to accompany a chocolate torte or some ice cream, and the rum turns to a nice fruit liqour.

[Sibling DavidH]

'Fraid it went wrong the only time I tried it.  I potted strawberries in brandy, as I had been told in Germany, and after a year or so the stuff was utterly disgusting.  We had to chuck it away.   
Problem - we had given another jar, made at the same time, to some good friends for Christmas.  Happily they are still friends.

[Darlica]

Chicken Sambal from the nearby Indian place.

It's laundry day and I didn't have enough energy to do both laundry and cooking.

[Opsa]

An encore peach I picked at a friend's orchard on Wednesday. Very good!

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Poutine

It's a hack but what the heck, I got the craving and making it isn't really as hard if you're willing to cut some corners , I got some canned gravy (mixed beef with chicken), bought some fries from that demonic franchise, and cut some cheese into cubes, heat the gravy with the cheese in the microwave, and drop hot over the fries. Mix and enjoy. I know it isn't the real stuff but I'm not precisely in Montreal...

[Swatopluk]

redcurrant (flat) cake

[Lindorm]

Poutine

It's a hack but what the heck, I got the craving and making it isn't really as hard if you're willing to cut some corners , I got some canned gravy (mixed beef with chicken), bought some fries from that demonic franchise, and cut some cheese into cubes, heat the gravy with the cheese in the microwave, and drop hot over the fries. Mix and enjoy. I know it isn't the real stuff but I'm not precisely in Montreal...

I think you are the first person I have ever heard of who has made home-made poutine. Not even an expat Qubecoise that is married to a friend of mine has tried! 

Here's another take on poutine, with lots of nice food-porn pictures:

http://fxcuisine.com/Default.asp?language=2&Display=161&resolution=high

[Swatopluk]

sesame breadroll (crunchy, not McD rubbery) with cheese (both halves), bacon and saveloy (each on one half)

[Opsa]

Just about to make tunafish salad sandwiches. Dolphin-safe, but possibly mercury-laden. It's a chance I'll have to take.

Sheesh, I had swordfish kabobs last night, too. No wonder I'm such a looney.

[Sibling DavidH]

You'll do, Opsa.   

Picked and ate our first blackberries of the year today.  Small but sweet, the product of a warm, dry year.  Mrs H saved a bagful to make crumble tonight.   

[Opsa]

D-oh! that tears it- we'll have to have berry patches at the RL monastery!

YUM-o-rama!

[Lindorm]

Jerked chicken w/ dirty rice over here.

David, blackberries sounds absolutely delicious!

Opsa, how do you make your tunafish salad?

[Aggie]

mmm...  jerk...   

Got some blackberries unexpectedly in Idaho.
Good cherries and nectarines, but not wild.

Eating



Tastes like licorice-flavoured toilet bowl cleaner. 

[Opsa]

Ooh, I loves da licorice!

Lind- my tuna salad is very simple, just drained tunafish (I prefer the solid white kind packed in water- kitty, who is otherwise aloof, will sit up and beg for the juice), a couple of dollops of Miracle Whip salad dressing (I don't like it as well with generic or mayo), a stick of chopped, fresh celery and a couple dashes of celery salt. Stir it up and serve on lettuce or in a sandwich. That's it.

I just had a very nice bowl of asparagus soup.