Ridiculousness and, a terrific dinner

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"I'd eliminate the IRS, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Department of Commerce and HUD."

And that's the Harvard guy.

Oh, Ted. You sanctimonious prick. It's Rick Perry all over again. 

But I digress.

Mom is here, and I like her to eat well when she is. Dishes must be wheat-, corn-, and alcohol-free, but that's no problem with a bit of planning. 

Roasted beets with horseradish vinaigrette? Terrific, and yes!

Yogurt, lemon and aleppo pepper chicken kebabs? Sublime!

And scene. Tired and full. Good night.

Chicks-n-dumps round 2, beets two ways, One Day Deal

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Tomorrow's (Friday) One Day Deal at participating Whole Foods is: Champagne (Ataulfo) mangoes: 1 case for $7.99 (roughly $.50 each; regularly $1.50 each)

With these beauties you can:

  • snack wildly
  • make a fantastic ice cream sundae (vanilla ice cream, cubed mango, drizzle of Amaretto, crumble of amaretti cookies)
  • can some mango butter or mango chutney for the post-mango season
  • serve up this fabulous mango, prosciutto and dandelion greens sandwich
  • make a puree and freeze it for future smoothie inclusion

and so forth.

Tonight for dinner, I repurposed our leftover dumpling dough and chicken stew from last night and cooked up these delicious and lovely pot pies. Fabulous! Alongside, we had beets two ways: roasted with oranges and Valdeon (a terrif Spanish blue cheese); and the beet stems and leaves sauteed with garlic, olive oil, lemon (zest and juice) and salt and then sprinkled with agrodolce vinegar.

chicken pot pies

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Pumpkin cheesecakes

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Isn't this darling? I've got 6 and will freeze them for later treats- swear this is the yummiest pumpkin cheesecake recipe ever! I'm now roasting beets for a lovely dinner salad of farro, farmers cheese and a clementine-brown butter dressing (my riff on the salad I enjoyed at The Publican). Overall, the kids are handling house-boundness well. Tomorrow might start to wear on us but at least things are still pretty calm outside and we still have power.