Lunch 2024

These morels came out fine, though.

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No doubt.

But given the choice, I think a more neutral oil would’ve done the morels more justice.

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Just got a box a little while ago. Thank you for the photos and description!

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Thoughts on butter + mushrooms?

I hate butter.

On, and in, all things.

Every week I grill four or five BLSL chicken thighs and eat them cold for lunches. This week I found a straightforward, mostly-pantry ingredients chicken thigh soup recipe as I was preparing to grill, and pivoted to that instead. This is a chicken and white bean soup recipe from Martha. Heavily doctored, since she had no spices whatsoever, nor any onion or garlic (!) So I added three crushed cloves, plus cumin and dried oregano.

Now it’s good :slight_smile:

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Really?

Yes.

I never use butter.

I use it only out of necessity, not out of choice.

When baking things like brioche or shortbread, I will use butter, because I have to as the quiddity of those items depends on the addition of butter, and not because I want to.

Even with pie crust, if I could get away with it, I would just use all shortening. As it is, it’s usually 1:1 ratio of butter to shortening.

Wow! I had no idea (maybe you’ve told me this before and I blocked it out).

I readily admit that this is a “me” problem and not a “you” problem. :smiley:

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62* and sunny put us in the mood for a rice salad.
Tuna, capers, fennel, red onion, oil cured olives, tomatoes , rice, beans held together with an anchovy/garlic vinaigrette. And enough leftover for another day :grin:.

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But, but - Lard is -right- there!

Indeed it is, but for sweet (as opposed to savory) pies, I prefer shortening to lard, as I find lard has just a bit too much of a hint of savory bite to it.

If I am making chicken pot pie or beef wellington, yeah, lard for sure.

Apple pie? Shortening.

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The bowl itself looks edible.

Well done. Bravo.

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Merci! Bowl is from a now retired potter in France. I’ve managed to collect a few of his lovely wares.

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Beautiful!

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Ty, much appreciated!

Leftover avgolemono soup from last night made its way into a bowl of ramen, with poached salmon and veggies.

Greek-Japanese (con)Fusion!

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Butter chicken following this recipe:

It came out pretty well if a little salty, likely because I added some salt to the chicken when marinating.

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