Today I got to school and made sure that Rex remembered to put my stew in the oven. He was pretty sick yesterday so he might have forgotten. It was in the oven and simmering and looked perfect. After about an hour or two we added the potatoes and carrots and let it continue to simmer until about a quarter to 11am. Lunch is served at 11 so it needed to be done by then.
We pulled it out and the potatoes were perfectly cooked, not crunchy at all. I added some thawed frozen peas and it looked delicious. Once out on the line it went really really fast. John came back and told me that it needed a little more stock, it was getting too thick so I started warming some up and by the time it was warm, the stew was gone. I am glad it was such a hit.
Plated in Adrienne's bread bowls:
Mart also showed up randomly out of nowhere after having stress at work, and I fed him some soup and he liked it. He said he would eat it again if I made it at home. That's a good sign.
While I was waiting for my stew to cook, I found some eggplant in our produce boxes in the back so I wanted to make something with it. I had already made eggplant parmesan so I wanted to do something different. Rex found me an eggplant relish (caponata) recipe that I would make and stuff inside a pan fried trout.
When I finished, I put it in the fridge so I could make the trout tomorrow. It hadn't defrosted all the way yet.
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