New Year

So, daughter of mine, it was so much fun having you here in the Yellow Kitchen and now you are over there moving your household to Northampton and probably eating Chinese take away. I have been thinking about how much we cook in general and, of course, how much we talk about what we are going to cook, have cooked, would like to cook and will never cook. So, I thought I'd use this blogette to keep a record of what we cook. I look forward to your commentary
1st January: bacon and egg on home-made, toasted bread; lunch: soup made from left-over peas and carrots and some beef broth made from the rib of the Xmas roast - the soup was delicious and looked like the undergrowth in an orchard painting by Klimt. Unfortunately the picture I took shows that it looks like sludge, rather than green with discrete orange bits from the carrots. Hey ho.
2nd January: I made amazing 15 second mayonnaise - seriously, KK made vegetarian red beans for rice for the Krewe Epiphany celebration, we ate cold poached salmon with mayo for lunch and I made a very heavy and not very successful loaf with too much corn meal, pumpkin seeds and oats in it. It doesn't taste bad, but last week's was so good that I am a bit cross with myself. But my experimental galette wasn't bad - I used my seville orange bitters instead of orange blossom water and that was quite good.
3rd January: fresh, heavy bread, an amazing field trip to the new-to-me Halal International, where Mohammed was extremely friendly and gave us gifts and discounts. Then to the originally named Indian Store, where delicious samosa were fried to order and a couple consumed in the car on the way home. The rest, with beer constituted lunch - simple, tasty and very filling. KK made non vegetarian red beans twice and I cooked a delicious, unctuous lamb ragout with a hint of spice - so good. Tomorrow, I will make a galette des rois and a gateau des rois. More later

Mama