The weather being cold, grey and dampish, it was time for a warm filling Saturday lunch. Like this
Roast tiny potatoes, bean and carrot croquettes, with Annie's Ketchup, the best. Since beans and carrots are bland, you can get very generous with spices.
I used smoked paprika, berbere and home mixed umami seasoning. I mashed it all up with an egg, rolled the results in panko crumbs, and fried in olive oil, very hot.
This is one of the advantages of partly cooking the vegetables ahead. They still taste good, but are quicker to cook. And there's more for tomorrow, as usual.
Dessert was the favorite blueberries in lime juice and yogurt beaten together with a bit of pure cane sugar.
I did a session of free weights, leg exercises, before this and the combination of the exercise and the filling lunch caused me to fall asleep a couple of times while I was supposed to be watching a great gallery of Oriental rugs.
It was a New England Rug Museum event with a couple who've been collecting marvelous suzani, embroidered (?) rugs for years.
As usual with collectors, there wasn't much about the actual rug making, size or material, more about dates and circumstances of their acquisition.
These are so lovely to see that I just want to show you a few, including a page from a notebook of patterns you might like to take as ideas if you're an embroiderer.
Your blueberry dessert sounds good. I very frequently have a small dish of blueberries and yogurt after noon lunch. The lime juice would add an extra bit of flavour.
ReplyDeleteIt's like a key lime pie filling. Sometimes I have a graham cracker with it to complete the idea.
DeleteSweet potato honey bread with cranberries and chocolate chips sounds unbelievably good. Oh, yeah, and nice rugs. But sweet potato honey bread with
ReplyDeletecranberries and chocolate chips!
It's pretty good. I put some in the freezer for Handsome Son's next visit, so he won't miss out.
DeleteThe Oriental rugs are glorious, the colours so rich, the patterns so intricate.
ReplyDeleteThey're lovely. As a maker, I always want to know more than collectors say. They often admit they know little about the materials, sources, skills, makers, all the things people ask them! They're interested in the hunt.
DeleteYummy sounding food all! I just made yogurt for the first time in years, will have it with frozen blueberries for breakfast.
ReplyDeleteThat's a good breakfast, I'd do that, too.
DeleteI had no idea there are embroidered rugs. Another piece of knowledge. Cake sure does sound good.
ReplyDeleteI'm not so sure they are. His English isn't very fluent, so when he used the term I wondered if he was referring to woven color work. Anyway they're lovely to see.
DeleteI had to look up suzani rugs, I'd never heard of them. Apparently they were originally made for doweries, embroidery done on cotton or silk. They're very beautiful and must have taken ages to produce.
ReplyDeleteSome of them were created by women relatives in a team, to give the bride as a dowry. Not sure all of these are embroidered, though.
DeleteMmmm, those croquettes look dee-lish! I've never tried Annie's Ketchup. And those rugs are amazing!
ReplyDeleteAnnie's is very good -- doesn't separate out and there's no metallic flavor like Heinz.
DeleteIt is always unbelievable to me that people would create such stunning and intricate works of art to lay on a floor to be walked on. I can only imagine that some of these rugs were meant to be hung.
ReplyDeleteMostly these were ceremonial, or used on top of furniture or wall hangings. And the few for floors encountered bare feet or soft sandals. Not like the hard shoes we think of.
DeleteYou make your healthy food look so yummy!
ReplyDeleteI really like interesting food and when it's good ingredients, it's not hard.
DeleteThe rugs have some very interesting designs that would indeed lend themselves to other applications. Your lunch does look good and I would definitely like that bread because I love cranberries.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping that some of our art blogistas will take advantage of the design page to borrow from it. I think you'd like this bread. It's banana bread with substitutions.
DeleteEverytime you share your delicious food on your Corningware dishes, it brings back the memories of the first days in my marriage in the 1970's. I received a set of this very pattern for our "everyday" dishes.
ReplyDeleteI was given some of these plates, got others from the thriftie. I like them a lot. Food always looks good on them.
DeleteLove those leftovers. Not having to cook is such a nice treat in and of itself!
ReplyDeleteYes, I love to wake up knowing my meals for the day are set.
DeleteOh I love roasties. Potatoes in any form really.
ReplyDeleteAnd I saw an advert for a t-shirt on which was written: Jesus takes naps. Be more like Jesus.
You can't go far wrong with any potato recipe, I agree.
DeleteThose embroidered rugs are so detailed! I hope they hung them on the wall and didn't walk on them. How could you walk on something that took so very long to create!
ReplyDeleteThe sweet potato honey bread with cranberries and chocolate chips...now I will have to have my slice of pumpkin bread with whipped cream cheese topping after lunch that Leah sent down last night. ;)
About the rugs -- see my answer to Mary moon above.
DeleteA bit of something on top of fancy bread is always good.
The carrot croquettes are a new item for me and the sweet potato cranberry bread looks like something to try as this is the season for them and store prices are lowest.
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