Right so it's a little fuzzy but above you see pictures of my latest preserving project which is called I-have-no-time-to-cook-because-sabbatical-is-over-so-I'm-freezing-everything. Basically what I've been doing is buying a flat of berries every weekend, freezing and then bagging them for the winter so that we have good fruit for our smoothies at least for a few weeks after berries are gone. One day, hopefully, we'll have room for a really big freezer and I can put up enough to last us for a few months, but in the meantime, a couple of flats of frozen strawberries and raspberries will have to do.
We had friends over for dinner on Saturday and out of sheer exhaustion and some awful allergies I could only come up with a really simple meal: chakchouka with lamb sausages (but not merguez! my usual merguez guy wasn't at the market), cheesy orzo topped with truffle oil, arugula salad dressed with walnut oil and this amazing cheese that my local cheesemonger sells, called pecora pistachio. Which is exactly what it sounds like: a sheep's milk cheese with pistachios in it. Divine.
And finally, because I wanted to take them to work tomorrow, I took twenty minutes out of a dreary boatload of administrative writing and whipped up Martha Stewart's black bottom coconut bars. Because that's what I should be eating after twelve hours in front of my computer.
Next up: airport food. I'm seeing a lot of it these days....
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