{"id":3925,"date":"2011-10-04T21:07:31","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T02:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=3925"},"modified":"2014-03-16T23:00:37","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T04:00:37","slug":"home-cooking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/home-cooking\/","title":{"rendered":"Home cooking"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have an AFS student<\/a> this school year, a 17-year Italian girl. As I’ve alluded to in past posts<\/a>, she’s a bit like me at 17 – persnickety about food, because she wants to control what she’s putting in her mouth. Like Mark, she’s not a hearty eater to gobble up whatever I cook. (It’s also looking like she’ll be leaving us – she’s asked to be placed with another family. I know it’s not because of the food – she wants to live with a family with more kids at home. Kinda hurts my feelings, but that’s all for some other kind of blog – we’ll stick to food here.)<\/p>\n

Anyways, last night I made steak fajitas – I had a two-pound piece of flank steak that I marinated in cumin & garlic & lemon juice, and loads of peppers from my CSA – little orange ones, one reddish-orange bell, 1 long green frying pepper. Our student didn’t want to eat, so I cut the piece of steak in half, and froze one of the halfs. Then I broiled the rest under the broiler, and Mark and I ate it rolled up in flour tortillas with the peppers sauteed with some purple onion. With rice cooked in homemade veggie broth<\/a> from Friday on the side. I was extra decadent and put a little butter on my rice.<\/p>\n

Tonight I was going to make tomato tart, but again it seemed like I’d not have too many eaters, so instead I made some tabouli, using up the last few good leaves off a bunch of fresh mint that was lurking in the vegetable drawer, and a bunch of parsley I bought on Sunday when I had a vague notion of turning the flank steak into braciole<\/a>. And one of the tomatoes that would’ve gone into the tart. And half a box of tofu, also found lurking the fridge, cut into little cubes and crisped up in a skillet in oil, and soy sauce and a sprinkle of brown sugar – Mark said the Italian girl wanted tofu, but I think he might’ve misunderstood. I ate the tabouli on a bed of greens, mostly a really peppery arugula, with a small roast beef sandwich on the side – even though it seems an odd side for tabouli – made from that too dry challah<\/a>, and leftover flank steak.<\/p>\n

Now I have a free form plum tart in the oven, made according to my own recipe for a peach version<\/a> – pictures forthcoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Tabouli on a bed of argula<\/p><\/div>\n

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Roast beef sandwich on Rosh Hashanah challah<\/p><\/div>\n

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Plum tart<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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