The Days and Nights of Tiny Montgomery: Split Pea, Meaty and Vegetarian, Madeleines for Dessert!

Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Split Pea, Meaty and Vegetarian, Madeleines for Dessert!

I was floundering this week, trying to decide what soup I wanted to make. Two different kinds? One kind in meaty and vegetarian forms? Experiment with bold flavors? (That last one is coming soon...) I was meandering around a food store, looking for inspiration when I stumbled upon my answer. So, this week we shall have Split Pea! Naturally thick and creamy, I will start with a mirepoix for rich flavor and add a homemade smoky sausage, diced potatoes, and a touch of barley to round out the soup. The vegetarian version can be with or without a similarly flavored meat substitute - your choice!

My sweet tooth is feeling terribly neglected so cakes and cookies are always in the back of my mind. Madeleines are a perfect combination of both so petite madeleines it shall be this week! Dark chocolate dipped if you so desire, plain if you don't Or a mixture of both! FYI, madeleines are a buttery French cake-like cookie with a hint of lemon baked in a shell-shaped mold.

Soup
1 quart/$8 2 quarts/$15 3 quarts/$22 4 quarts/$28

Cookies
$5/doz (I can mix and match plain and choco dipped!)

(Payment via cash, check, credit, or Paypal)

I'm taking orders till Wednesday evening. Orders taken via emails, text messages, carrier pigeon, smoke signals, etc. Pickup will be Friday evening and Saturday. Delivery available for an additional $2 to City and inner ring suburbs.

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What I'm Reading

Complicity by Iain Banks - Continuing my exploration of Banks and Scottish literature I delved into my third Banks novel, this one yet again completely different. The story of drug and drink addicted journo who gets inadvertently involved in a serial killer's revenge murders.
How to Be Good by Nick Hornby - It had its moments, but I got rather bored with it about 2/3 through. I'm not sure ole Nick ought to make his main characters female.
Sunshine by Robin McKinley - This book was recommended by the librarian who goes on NPR all the time and talks about summer books, etc. As it was about vampires, I had to try it anyway. And I kind of loved it. A completely new twist on vampires in a sort of alternate universe now. Unfortunately, the sex, while teased, wasn't what I hoped for. I thought I'd try some of her other titles, but the covers alone had me running away, screaming. Very florid, fantasy-type illustrations. Think I'll just stick with this one and the hoped-for sequel.
The Braindead Megaphone Essays by George Saunders - I'm only a few pages in but I've already belly laughed -- out loud while alone and at work! -- something I don't ususally do. I appreciate, very much, written humor, but it seldom makes me actually laugh out loud. George Saunders is so brilliant and so completely right on and so fucking funny. I love his surreal, absurdist fiction, but this book is so completely perfect.
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