Food Week 11

I kind of stopped keeping track of food and the shopping lists, but there were a few culinary delights worth mentioning (NYE food will be in that post, when I get to it). First of all, I had to make black-eyed peas for New Years, since it’s bad luck not to eat at least one on New Year’s Day. I kind of cheated because I forgot to buy them before New Year’s and then couldn’t find them in the standard supermarket (although I found them the next day in the Asian supermarket, go figure). It was technically 2 January when I ate them but it was still American New Year’s Day so it was okay. They came out pretty good with just onions and some powdered chicken stock.

I also made a weird concoction to use up my extra molasses, eggs, vanilla custard, and lasagna noodles which was supposed to be a sort of layered delicacy, but didn’t come out too great. The molasses was really overpowering and the lasagna noodles didn’t cook all the way through, but I still enjoyed it for the rest of the week, especially when mixed with the rest of the custard.

By comparison, the bread I made with the extra cranberries was fantastic, although I already knew that it would be since I’d made the recipe before. It contained orange juice/zest, walnuts, and cranberries and took forever to make (hand-juicing the oranges sucked) but came out very nice and lasted awhile – I even brought the last of it to my first WWOOFing stop a week later.