Cooking And Eating....“Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es”

 

WHEN A FRIEND ARRIVES, HUNGRY,  AND 'ALL THERE IS' IS A FROZEN POT PIE AND SOME JARS OF 'STUFF'....... 

a 'Loaf'.....sort of.......from this morning's kitchen playtime......best eaten.....outside......since it is rather 'gyro-like', isn't it...and 'messy'; although, it has no tzatziki sauce or lamb....and the bread is not Pita.....A 'look-alike' of butter-fried paratha bread and a salmon loaf with tartar sauce, cured sun-dried tomatoes and fresh cherry tomatoes.....plus the obligatory diced herb mix......French, not Greek.....Gobbledygook...with no turkey, either.....

ready for the Wok......wild boar marinated in chicken bouillon, wild mushrooms, scallions, peri-peri, green dragon sauce, hoisin sauce, worcester sauce, cajun herbs and A-1 sauce for an hour or two.......final destination, still up for grabs........but, likely, to be served over either basmanti rice, cooked with cumin, smoked paprika and tiny sliced wild yard onions, chopped dates and tumeric powder.......or made into a hearty stew, with leftover wines and cognac, perhaps...... finished concoction.......if a bit less colorful than the uncooked ingredients......with cognac, corn starch and a little panko crumbs for thickening...... THE EVENTUAL DESTINATION.....SERVED WITH COOKED 'GREENS' ON A SCALLION/POTATO PANCAKE......

.....enter the kitchen at 7:24.....ready to serve at 7:28......[faster than a 'drive-through' window at McDonald's........and no need to fire up an auto, drive in traffic; line up behind other 'diners', staring at and fingering their phones, while listening to noise on their car radios or bluetoothed streams from The Cloud, as they pollute the air with exhaust fumes......gobble down the chow; then toss a cubic foot of paper and plastic into the Trash Can....or..out of their vehicle's windows....as they re-enter the traffic stream, on their 'way' to 'somewhere'.....Still a bit hungry, I think I'll make a Tangine Almond/Prune cake....which will take about 8 minutes..... a second 'run' with the Tangine....a '7 minute cake'.....almond flour, an egg, apricot liquor, almond paste, butter, wire-whipped.... and, after 30 seconds of microwave action.....onto a silver plate, then ..topped with tangerine sections a few gobs of whipped c...

  slices from a baguette of French bread, soaked with whipped eggs,  cream, orange liquor and cinnamon; then, cooked in an iron skillet in molten butter until the eggs are done and the toast is carmelized....after which, a mixture of blackberry preserves,  hot raspberry-bacon jam and blueberry preserves is poured....

utlilizing yesterday's leftovers.......this afternoon, for lunch, I combined the last of a jar of fig preserves with a large dab of mayo and a quarter cup of Stonewall Kitchen's Lemon Herb Aioli for a new concoction that was even better than the first!