Thursday, April 01, 2010

Good Passover/Good Easter

I was raised Catholic and I was a good alter boy who could repeat the Latin responses in church when I was 10. Now I'm a grown up and a friend of mine just went to a Seder and told me what they had to eat. She made fruit salad but there were a lot of dishes and what I was particularly taken by were the lamb stuffed potatoes.
When I commented on those, she said I was crazy, that she'd talked about lamb stuffed tomatoes, not potatoes.
By then it was too late. I was already thinking of buying lamb and having it ground, sauteeing it in garlic, olive oil and onions, adding tomatoes, then other veggies and stuffing potatoes.
But I cheated. By the time I bought the lamb and had it ground, I had decided on making a caserole. So I made mashed potatoes, layered a pyrex pan with those, then put the sauteed lamb, garlic, onions, salt, coarse pepper, broccoli, baby carrots, cauliflower florets, diced zuccini and capers on top of that, then topped that with blue cheeze mashed potatoes, and topped that with a nice bechemel (parmesan cheese) sauce. I think it's gonna be good. A little more work than I intended but enough that Madeleina, Italo and Sara will try lamb without crying about it.
So what about that?
Cool, right?
Let me know, cause nobody is writing to me anymore and I hate writing in a vaccuum.

4 comments:

Kuchinta said...

After your aya book gets published, how about starting on a cookbook? ;)

little lightening bolt said...

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If you would like I could spruce up your blog for you... I am pretty good at it...
here is an example...
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it would be fun to work on your blog... I would do it for free even!

23 said...

Peter, your blog is like food for the soul and an appetizer for the palate! Love it!

Gritter said...

Keep at it old friend and one day your culinary skills may, just may, catch up with your ol' alabama buddy - the 5-star Grillmeister of the universe.

Damn but that dish sounds good!! May I come over for dinner?