Oh Yeah...
Dec. 24th, 2010 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greenstorm...and Christmas is cooking season for me, so I'm cooking.
I got a smoked turkey so I didn't have to cook.
It's unopened in the fridge, because I went to sunrise, dropped an average of $0.30/lb for, you know, 20 lbs of potatoes, 10lbs of squash, 10 lbs of apples, a bunch of onions, some cabbage, and several rutabagas. I've got 4.5L of curry squash soup made, 8cups of wild rice/maple/miso/orange/garlic stuffing for the roast squash made, and the apples sitting by the slow-cooker to be made into applesauce for latkes tomorrow. Oh, and vichysoisse stuff set aside. That's the vegan portion.
Then I'm going to do a gallon or two of rutabaga/potato/cabbage/sausage mash which, like the soup, can be frozen for future meals and/or bartered. The stuffed squash is for Christmas eve potluck & turkey deep-fry. I may or may not do up another meat pasta/potato sauce for the freezer (tonight I did lamb-mushroom, which was lovely).
I'm starting to feel like it's a real Christmas. I'm hoping I'll be inspired for my own potluck on Thursday.
A friend just taunted me with a vegan, buckwheat-based cabbage-roll recipe. I WANT that.
I definitely don't feel restricted by gluten-free right now. It's effortless at this point, as are the removal of dairy and eggs.
I got a smoked turkey so I didn't have to cook.
It's unopened in the fridge, because I went to sunrise, dropped an average of $0.30/lb for, you know, 20 lbs of potatoes, 10lbs of squash, 10 lbs of apples, a bunch of onions, some cabbage, and several rutabagas. I've got 4.5L of curry squash soup made, 8cups of wild rice/maple/miso/orange/garlic stuffing for the roast squash made, and the apples sitting by the slow-cooker to be made into applesauce for latkes tomorrow. Oh, and vichysoisse stuff set aside. That's the vegan portion.
Then I'm going to do a gallon or two of rutabaga/potato/cabbage/sausage mash which, like the soup, can be frozen for future meals and/or bartered. The stuffed squash is for Christmas eve potluck & turkey deep-fry. I may or may not do up another meat pasta/potato sauce for the freezer (tonight I did lamb-mushroom, which was lovely).
I'm starting to feel like it's a real Christmas. I'm hoping I'll be inspired for my own potluck on Thursday.
A friend just taunted me with a vegan, buckwheat-based cabbage-roll recipe. I WANT that.
I definitely don't feel restricted by gluten-free right now. It's effortless at this point, as are the removal of dairy and eggs.
