Lunch. Texas caviar awaiting its homemade pita chips.
http://homesicktexan.blogspot.com/2006/12/black-eyed-peas-for-new-years-day.html
Dinner. The first hors d’oeuvre in Elizabeth David‘s Summer Cooking, a work of genius.
A.) I was way too hungry to style this properly. B.) Eggs for dinner only if you have two dozen farm-laid ones given by friends.
Next up, omega threes per the really stinky French healthy lunch meat, anchoaide de Croze, which is even less photogenic.
I wouldn’t say meatless is cheap. The fresh ingredients for the Texas caviar, the olives, radishes, French bread, cultured butter and some other non-meat groceries ran me nearly $60 at Whole Paycheck. But both are meals I can have a couple of times — let’s say they’re six meals. I really should work out the financials. Next year in Jerusalem.
Nothing I’ve eaten lately falls under the cuisine dolce far niente rubric. Except that really excellent, sublime, actually, dinner of mango sherbet and honey-roasted almonds on a day I didn’t feel like cooking. Mmmm.
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1. Gorgeous photos, both.
2. $Sixty? Ouch. (Or dId you buy Fleur de Sel for the radishes?)
3. Anchoaide looks fab, but where do you find orange flower water?
orange flower water at middle eastern/indian/”asian” groceries meaning <———— and not japanese or chinese.
yeah, whole paycheck is a piece of work. but i have been grossed out here by nearly rotten produce at two local supermarkets, and no yuppie goods at the supermercado, which has fairly good, ie., not going to rot tomorrow, veg.