Strawberries in Orange Juice - pg. 365
What a day! Always lots to do first thing in the morning, house keeping stuff. Then a trip to farmers' market whether we need anything or not. Just because. My becoming-favorite organic greens seller had a big basket of terrific looking endive, so I got a lot of it. And Dragon Spring Farms was there with their heirloom squashes.
Home quick for lunch then off to the shelter where the Board president and the office manager and I interviewed 5 candidates to replace our departing office manager. What a great group of candidates! I hope we can keep them all with North County Humane Society as volunteers at the very least. Wonderful women, just wonderful.
Then home where I started some cooking. Our soon-to-be next door neighbors stopped by to get a tour of our finished house. I made dinner and afterwards started 2 pots of soup, 1 of split pea and 1 of "small white bean." I have 2 of those very old-fashioned Westbend bean pots that are just perfect for bean and pea soup. These were used before there was such a thing as slow-cookers and crock pots.
The salad was terrific. I beefed it up for an entree by poaching 4 eggs for the 2 of us. Since I used raspberry blush white balsamic vinegar in the dressing instead of red wine vinegar, I omitted the garlic. The baby frisees were so tender and flavorful!
Alice, bless her heart, reminds us that desserts need not be fancy to be wonderful. We are blessed to live in an area where we have fresh local strawberries year around. They may not be at their very best in the dead of winter, but they're still wonderful. The grower told me that a strawberry plant here produces nearly continuously for 3 years before having to be replaced. What's hard on strawberry crops is rain, which we are supposed to have a lot of this week. So this was a good day to buy strawberries. Anyway, I added some fresh mandarin sections and chopped dates to the mix. Quite yummy!
37 recipes accomplished; 268 yet to go
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