The main course for supper was Nancy's gout chaser, a
concoction of turmeric, celery, onions, curry powder,
and whatever meat is around - this time it was teriyaki
marinated chicken thighs from Wegmans, of which I
disapprove, because I don't like paying extra for work
that I can do better and cheaper. At the store, I had
mildly suggested that we do the meat from scratch; I
ought to have insisted as I was paying for the groceries.
You'd've had to do the marinading bit...
Yeah, so? Five minutes of work. It may well not
have been any better, but it certainly would have
cost less.
Whatever, the dish tasted pretty good, and the teriyaki
added a not unpleasant sweetness to the dish. I don't
recall if there was any starch to go with this - if so,
I didn't have any of it.
Nope, didn't fix any starch to go with... at home it might have been microwaved frozen brown rice, or a slice of bread to mop up the
juices... I figured for the picnic the starch was less needed... ;)
Or needed at all.
Others were old standards key lime pie (good) and
pecan pie (better) from Gail. I believe these had been
available on Saturday, but I hadn't gotten any.
All these things WERE on Saturday... for the supper-ish time...
Burton had brought an air fryer and some wonton skins
as a Chopped challenge for me. Somehow I never got to
this, and it went forgotten by everyone else. Honest,
Burt, I wasn't trying to shirk my responsibilities, and
I really would have liked to play with the toy a little,
but there was so much else to do. What I'd likely have
done - filled some of the skins with a meat and dairy
filling to make rangoony type things and sliced up the
rest of the skins, making Chinese restaurant crunchy
noodles with some of the strips and cinnamon-sugar chips
with the rest. Ah, next time. I like making stuff for
Burt, because I like hearing him go My, that's good.
No matter what I make, and no matter whether it's actually
good or not.
Those do sound pretty good... too bad you didn't get to them.... I did notice Gail and others checking out the equipment for the air fryer, but
then nothing came of it...
Would have been an okay experiment for me, as I don't have
experience. If somebody had reminded me, it could have
happened.
Steve opened the spiced ground beef, and we sampled it
both dry and reconstituted. It tasted like heavily browned
salty ground beef with a touch of cumin and chili powder.
Not a big surprise, and we decided not to bother to
experiment with the minced onion and diced green pepper
from the same company. If we'd been short of food, maybe
we could have done something with all of these, but since
when does the echo picnic go short of food?
I thought that if one had mixed the onion and pepper with the beef it
might have done something a little more interesting... But it really
was just survival food.... ;)
I actually don't see that we would have learned much.
Crosse & Blackwell cranberry chutney was pretty nice; I
suggested eating it on the Parm Crisps. The combo didn't
much improve either component, but it was decent. This
stuff was from Nancy I think.
Yup.... it had jumped into my cart sometime in the past year, reduced
greatly for clearance... Since the picnic, I've found it went nicely on
a slice of Havarti cheese.... ;)
Cheese and semi-acid fruit is pretty classic.
Bonnie came by with Hana raspberry flavored sake, which
smelled strongly of berry and turned out to be too sweet
for most of us to drink. This had been a gift from her
sister (or aunt, or something) Marguerite.
Sister... youngest sister.... ;) It was... interesting... ;)
Girly booze. Almost enough to make a Baptist out of
a Presbyterian.
So as a consolation prize she gave us tastes of Knob Creek
100 and Eagle Rare 90, both respectable Bourbons but on the
strong side for most of us.
I was glad to see that she joined in with us as much as she did... :)
She did get into the spirit of the occasion.... :)
Which was gladdening.
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Title: Chunky Pizza Soup
Categories: Soups, Kids, Fast, Can living
Servings: 4
1 tb Oil; vegetable
1 Onion; chopped small
1/2 c Mushrooms; sliced
1/4 c Green peppers; slivered
1 c Tomatoes; undrained
1 c Stock; beef
1 c Pepperoni; thin sliced
1/2 ts Basil; dried
1 c Cheese; mozzarella shredded
Preheat oven broiler. Heat oil over medium heat, stirfry onion, mushroom
and green pepper till soft, not browned. Add tomatoes, stock, pepperoni
and
basil, cook till heated through. Ladle soup into ovenproof bowls and
sprinkle with cheese. Broil till cheese melts and is bubbly.
Source: Canadian Living magazine posted by Anne MacLellan
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