crafty_packrat

Pink lady apples, bosc pears, sweet potatoes, Yukon gold potatoes, white bread sandwich loaf, chicken empanada, cheese danish, and apple-sage-maple-syrup breakfast sausage patties.

I'm making pancakes and two patties of the breakfast sausages, and later I will frost the Moist Apple Cake I made yesterday, and maybe roast the pork neckbones and trotters I bought on Friday for pork stock. Or I might make Jidi Bel Zet again. I do need to buy more cinnamon and vanilla, so a trip to Penzey's is coming up in the next week sometime...

Eggs, leeks, turnips, pink lady apples, chicken necks and feet, bosc pears, chicken empanada, cheese danish, and batard of white bread.

I made pancakes this morning with cultured buttermilk, and may make creme fraiche with the leftover cream. The chicken parts I will roast and make into soup stock.

twistedchick, this is your trigger warning -- I do not think you want to read this one...

( The case of the antique instrument )

Seriously, I think I can't use PayPal's services anymore. Together with the Christmas Gift debacle, and the time they tried to dictate the ToS for Dreamwidth, I'll just have to find a different money transfer service -- one that isn't run by nincompoops and malevolent jerks.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Onions, mint, batard of white bread, feta cheese, a dozen large eggs, pink lady and macintosh apples, bosc pears, NY strip bison steak, Yukon gold potatoes, cheese danish and chicken empanada.

I'm going to use the potatoes to make roast potatoes -- I made them yesterday with boiling potatoes, which were tasty, but I think the texture suffered. A NY strip steak grilled on my Lodge griddle/grill is extremely tasty, especially because the cast iron goes into the oven with no qualms to finish the cooking. I might make a small batch of cupcakes later.

Bosc pears, pink lady and winesap apples, batard of white bread, homemade jam, chicken empanada and cheese danish. I may go back for the bag of chicken feet (for stock).

I bought a picnic shoulder of Mulefoot pork and three chicken carcasses yesterday at the Silver Spring market that I went to with lavenderliz and her spouse -- the pork is cooking into carnitas now, and I made about 4 quarts of chicken stock last night with carcasses.

greenygal and I went to the Downtown Holiday Market yesterday. I picked up a embroidedered leather cuff and a CD from the Alexandria Kleztet, who were performing live. We kept walking for almost an hour, but before we had seen everything I go so cold I was sluggish and stupid -- we dashed off to Jaleo -- we were in time for the brunch menu, but since the entire point of being down was to try the Clementina holiday menu, we made sad faces and our waitress said she could ask the chefs if they could do the clementine menu early, since it was a dinner only menu. They could, and we had Bombas de la Barcelonetta (mashed potato fritters with a core of goat cheese and Catalan pork sausage), Asparagus, Bacon-Wrapped Dates, Catalan Spinach (spinach sauteed with pine nuts, apples, and raisins) and Pork Belly with Pureed Butternut Squash and Clementines... with a desert of Clementine Shaved Ice over Yogurt Foam with Mint and Olive Oil.

In other words, it was a fabulous meal.

Then we went back to market and I bought gifts for a few people -- fabulous olive oil and some premium chocolate bark -- and two antique Arthur Rackman prints for myself -- Donner and Loge with the Rhinemaidens -- from an antiquarian who had vintage ads, antique book pages matted as prints, and antique maps.

Now, I'm sitting back for today and trying to figure out what the last three people on my Christmas list are getting -- probably donations to charities in their names, since I can't seem to find wish lists in my email folders...

Things I have accomplished:

• Honey glaze assembled and in fridge.


• Chicken in fridge for defrosting.


• Sweet potato and scallion filling made for the börek.


• Ground lamb in fridge for defrosting.


• Pistachios toasted.


• Ice cream canister in feezer for tomorrow.


• Caramel made for the caramel cremes.


• Lime grated for the key lime pie.

Things still to do today:

• Run dishwasher.


• Defrost extra egg yolks.


• Mix ground lamb with spices for sujuk rolls.


• Juice key limes for 1/2 cup of lime juice.


• Bake key lime pie.


• Make cranberry sorbet base and cool.


• Make custard for and cook caramel cremes.


• Defrost puff pastry and fillo dough.

5 heads of garlic, fresh dill, fresh mint, 2 cucumbers, scallions, 1 lb ground lamb, suncrisp and nittany apples, yellow bartlett pears, cauliflower, onions, potatoes, cucumbers, chicken empanada, cheese danish and milk.

Yesterday I got a chicken from Groff's Content Farm and a Mulefoot hog picnic shoulder from Many Rocks Farm. The picnic shoulder became carnitas and the chicken will be part of Thanksgiving dinner.


Currently, my Thanksgiving menu is:

• Figs with Marscapone and Proscuitto


• Smashed Cucumber Salad


• Sweet Potato and Scallion Börek


• Sujuk Sausage Rolls


• Whole Pumopkin Baked with Cream and Gruyere


• Za'atar and Honey Glaze Chicken with Cauliflower and Salsify Yukon Gold Potato Puree.


• Cranberry Sorbet


• Orange and Vanilla Creme Caramels


• Chocolate Truffles

Also, I bought my calendar for 2012, and a pair of Winged Piglet fingerpuppets for my nephews -- due to magnets in their noses, they kiss!

Potatoes, yellow and red onions, red bartlett pears, nittany and gold rush apples, feta cheese, garlic, batard of white bread, sweet potato, apple danish, and cheese empanada.

Making a double batch of White Bean Spread today -- peeling beans for HOURS...

Persimmons, red bartlett pears, winter banana and nittany apples, a dozen medium eggs, batard of white bread, quart of creamline milk, chicken empanada, cheese danish, and quart of honeycrisp apple cider.

Made garden huckleberry pie yesterday. Used the Renaissance Pastry recipe from Shakespeare's Kitchen for the crusts. Pie is very very purple .

Also made Dark Pork Stock using bone from a pork shoulder, meaty neck bones, and trotters (very cheap!). Almost too much stock to deal with, but I'll make French Onion Soup with some and reduce and freeze the rest.

Boule of white bread, new potatoes, onions, 1 lb of quark, red bartlett pears, braeburn, granny smith, and honeycrisp apples, chicken empanada, and a quart of huckleberries (for pie? or ice cream? apparently, they're an annual).