somerville kitchen On The Road

Thank you TaM for inviting somerville kitchen to your home. It was such a pleasure to cook in a real kitchen again. Between all involved, we produced chicken and artichoke baked in somerville kitchen's own clay pot, roasted potatoes with jardin thyme, fried brussel sprouts, TaM's special vegetable kebabs, and home baked white Italian bread.


somerville kitchen's on the road bags arrived at 5:45. By 6:02, the clay pot has had its 15-minute soaking, the chicken was prepared and dipped in flour and thyme, but we could not get it into the stove until the hosting movie star cat, CF, made an appearance to check it out.

Once the chicken was safely in the stove, the work started on the vegetables. But our other independently wealthy feline hostess, ChM, had to inspect the products first prior to giving the nod to proceed with the meal preparation.

Of course, somerville kitchen will not go on the road with no dessert. By 9:00 pm, as the table was cleared, and the human and feline company were lounging and playing, dessert was served. 

 

The original plan was THE Banana Cake. I should have been wiser and cooked it at my hosts' kitchen, but instead I used my camp's toaster oven. The cake stuck to the pan, but was quickly turned into banana chocolate chips crumble, served with papaya and President's Choice pecan tart ice cream. Of course, due to my lent (see somerville kitchen Lent), the papaya solo was my personal dessert.

After three nights of burning plates and cutlery after dinner, we could not skip the ritual, albeit it was manifested in the burning of a vegetable kebab instead.

 

Thank you TaM for hosting somerville kitchen. 

Anyone else wants to host and have dinner along the way, drop me a note to eshmun@shaw.ca, but hurry up, free cooking only available during the kitchen renovations period.