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Archive for September 28th, 2008
Sep
28
I cooked today. I made moussaka from scratch. No sauces, no buying things in a pack and then pretending I made it. There was grating of a nutmeg today! Grating! Of a nutmeg! And there was pinching of herbs and pan frying aubergines! Aubergines!
So I did that and then roasted some butternut squash and sweet potatoes to go with it.
Oh, and plum and pear crumble to follow.
There was a lot of food.
The cooking took so bloody long. But it was worth it. People ate, I filled in a day… in which, yes, I could have caught up blogs and things but I just wanted to cook and feed people. So, today was a successful day in that respect.
And the bottle of wine I had to finish (the recipe required one glass of red) really softened the edges of the rest of the day. And because I always feel bad about using good wine in cooking (feels like a wate) I used a bottle I won in a tombola a while ago (it stil had the ticket on it – class all over the place today) and the name of the wine brought an extra smile to my face
