COLD WEATHER CREATIVE COOKERY PROJECT.......

This afternoon, I made a complex Moroccan (?) Stew of Chicken, garum masala, sliced banana pepper rings, oil-cured and sun-dried tomatos, dried apricots, crystallized ginger, chopped green chilis, grated coconut, chilli oil, organic Italian brown rice (Flor diRiso), dissicated blueberries, tumeric powder, crushed garlic, diced prunes, purple and orange carrots, tomato paste, ground yellow peppercorns, chicken stock, vegetable stock, chopped scallions and chopped vidalia onions, mortar-crushed rosemary, dried okra and chervil, parsley, dried coriander leaves, homemade sliced pickled purple beets, leftover blueberry preserves and thinly-sliced dates......a big Project: timing the cooking of all these ingredient!........Cook Time was 3 hours.......



 much more eye-pleasing.....and flavourfull.....with some tender baby red butter lettuce, Marzetti avocodo dressing and a tart red cherry tomato, decorated with pungent scallion rings.....

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