So the news is all bad: earthquakes and melting down nuclear reactors in Japan; tsunamis; unrest and insane dictators all over the middle east; union busting in Wisconsin.
On Tuesday I made a chicken & zucchini casserole, from my Pittsburgh community garden cookbook – the Great Tomato Patch cookbook that of course is on WorldCat because Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh cataloged it. It’s one of those recipes that I made-from-scratch-ified, using mushroom sauce in place of a can of cream of mushroom soup, and home made croutons in place of stuffing mix.
Chicken zucchini casserole that I ate for early dinner at 4:30 on the night I had to stay at work till 8:00 p.m.
On Wednesday I cooked the 1/2 pound Snug Haven spinach I’d bought at the previous Saturday market, in garlic butter and threw in some leftover gnocchi and a couple of mushrooms that didn’t go into the sauce for the casserole.
Spinach with gnocchi and mushrooms
Now I’m home on a break from the protests – I was downtown at 8:00 to help serve the farmers’ market breakfast. Mark came down to meet me, and we went up to the square in time for the tractorcade, then we massed with the librarians outside the central library, and marched around once. I gave all my cookies away, and then my foot started hurting, and I felt like I just had to take a break. So we brought the car home, and the spinach-gnocchi mix made a pretty good omelette. I’m starting to feel like I have the strength to look up bus times and head back down there. The crowd is supposed to peak at 3:00.
