Monday, March 27, 2017

Monday, Mar 27

Breakfast smoothie, then after our theater lighting class we stopped by an Asian grocery to pick up some dried konbu seaweed. Way better price than buying the same thing at Amazon!

Also stopped st Stater Bros to pick up some more Hershey's cocoa for my morning smoothies -- I'm almost out! -- and some ground ginger, ground cumin, & cinnamon sticks so I could make some Orange Cumin Chutney with some of the oranges I got from Vickie last Friday. More details about that down below. 

We had lunch at Subway. I had a coupon for a $6 Italian Hero footlong, so Brianne had that, while I had a chopped salad with rotisserie chicken, provolone cheese, tomatoes, cucumber, pickles, lettuce, spinach, Oregano, Parmesan, & oil and vinegar. Yum!

 

After lunch, I met up with our neighbor Debra to get some more jars, then I bought some strawberries, some leaf lettuce, and some pickles at our local farmers market. 

When we got home, I resumed the chutney. I started it last night because the first step is to zest 2 lbs of oranges, salt the zest, & let it sit overnight. Here's the zest last night:

 

And here it is after we got home about 3pm:

 

I then rinsed the zest and tore it into little pieces into a 6 quart tall pan. 

 

Here it is with the rest of the ingredients thrown in. I used the half grapefruit I had leftover, too. 

 

After stirring:

 

The recipe called for dried cranberries and/or cherries, so I used some of the dried cranberries I have been soaking in port wine. 

Here's the finished chutney:

 

I picked out the cinnamon stick and then poured the chutney into jars. 


I intend to use the little 4 oz portion to make the cheese spread that's at the bottom of the recipe page!


The rest of it will get eaten here and/or used for more cheese spread, or given to friends. 

After the chutney, I got busy doing other stuff and do didn't eat anything else today. 😕

I still have four grapefruit and about a dozen oranges left!

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