and a chickpea salad .

Using the leftover chicken breast from the tandoori - don't worry, the original spices only penetrated the skin.

Anyway, lots of celery, onion, peas n' carrots in a turkey gravy, garlic and Worcestershire, served over mashed spuds.

Pot pie - without the pie!

Looks like a very good recipe. Three lbs of fish filets, plus squid or crab plus mussels! That is a lot of seafood!

Urm, you can just copy and paste "seafood" for the "What's for Dinner" thread for the next few days and we'll understand!

I decided to go with orange, toasted almond, fennel, and lettuce salad. The recipe calls for white balsamic vinegar, but I'm out. I think I'll just use regular balsamic, but less of it. I read up on it and they are not really the same, but it seems the difference is that white balsamic is less intense than red.



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more like 1 1/2. And used scallops instead of the shellfish, due to ease and $. I did NOT do the Rouille, but did get a fresh French bread (from grocery so not great, but better than nothing.)


Your salad would have been GREAT! As no fennel bulb available at grocery, I used fennel seeds for my recipe. I had romaine/spinach red cabbage + carrot with Balsamic for salad.

It was still kind of warm out, so we didn't bother to cook up spaghetti to go with them, figured the bread was carbs enough anyway.

I finally started working on black raspberry extract. Bought a 750 ml bottle of 100 proof smirnoff vodka and mixed it with a quart of black raspberry juice. I'm to store it in a dark place, shake it every day or two for a month or two, then strain it out through coffee filters into the final bottles. Still trying to find some nice bottles for it. I'd really like to find some tinted cathedral bottles, but I've only been able to find antique ones, not anyone still making them today. At a guess, I'll come out with close to 50 oz of extract by the time it's done. I think the general run of extracts at kroger's was something like 2.39/oz, so buying the same amount of extract would have run me about $120. The vodka cost me under $16, but I'm not sure how much bottles will end up costing me yet. Certainly far less than a hundred bucks, I'm hoping. If it works well, I might try my hand at making some other types of extract. I think we go through a fair amount of cherry each Christmas while baking, for instance.

Still have to make a lot of jelly, though. We've still got 10 more quarts of black raspberry juice and a gallon of the berries I never got around to running through the food mill in the freezer.