Sunday, 17 November 2013

Beautiful Food


It has been Day of Decorative Dinner. First of all, we picked the small, sour apples off the various trees around the place, and since they don’t cut it as eating apples, and the Professor’s on a diet, made apple jelly, adding thereunto crimson crab-apples. The result glows in its jars like giant cornelians. The Two Nice Girls produced a pumpkin, or squash, this week which is a subtle greyish-turquoise on the outside, and bright orange within, from which I have made a orange soup (not without difficulty, since in its raw state, it’s as hard as wood). Also on today’s hit list was a Romesco cauliflower, that is, one of those beautiful bright green Art Deco ones, in which the florets rise into little spikes. This is in the process of becoming a cauliflower gratin. I hadn’t planned it that way, but it’s added an extra dimension to my  operations to be dealing with one gloriously coloured item after another.

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