Our Dinner: November 18th

Our Dinner: November 18th

emerald city salad
(fresh chard, wild rice (simmered in chicken stock and butter), red peppers, fennel bulb, parsley, broccoli, and red cabbage, all chopped fine) with a dressing of lemon juice, garlic and olive oil

sweet potato soup with chipotle cream sauce
(sweet potatoes and onions and carrots simmered in chicken broth, after carmelizing in butter: the cream sauce made of heavy whipping cream whipped into stiff peaks, and then a chopped chipotle from adobo sauce, and 4 tsps of the sauce folded in) as i recall there was some cumin and garlic pepper thrown in, and other stuff

we all got madly delirious after eating this meal- it was that good. recipes are available upon request.

I had four people in the kitchen helping me to make it. it was wild happy abandon; Jamba playing with Sava on the kitchen floor, blowing bubbles though a spatula (a trick he learned from a Curious George episode) making these big wild floating things- sava going out of her mind with happiness.

:Side notes: she has recently learned to make the trumpeting sound of an elephant.
:She has learned to make a hag face, after Jamba wrapped his head in a frame of fabric, stuck his halloween costume"billy bob" teeth in and thrust his lower chin out, and then hunched over in a hobbly sort of way and started lurching around the room with his crabapple fish-hawker's voice saying "i'm an ooolld hag, won't you spare me just a wee nibble?" and so on... So she picked up on the face, at least, and now they make old hag faces at each other. In her case, it is scrunching up her nose really tight.
:When asked "what does a fishy say" she opens her mouth open and shut like a guppy.