Wednesday, July 22, 2009

22nd meeting. Moroccan

Where? D’s
Attendants: Aa, Ch, D, E, G and Y

Menu
0) Lucky cucumber salad
1) Lucky summer rolls
2) Moroccan stew containing lucky veggies over couscous
3) Avocado chocolate fudge
4) Peaches poached in wine


Lucky summer rolls
Ingredients

Lucky cucumber
Mango
Soba noodles
Chopped peanuts
Chopped cilantro
Rice paper



Moroccan Stew
Ingredients

2 cups red lentils
6 cups stock
3 onions
4 cloves garlic
3 Tbs minced ginger
Lucky green beans
Lucky zucchini
1 package grape tomatoes
1/2 cup Raisins
4 cinnamon sticks
4 Bay leaves
Liberal amounts of turmeric, cumin, coriander, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper


Avocado chocolate fudge (adapted from http://vegetarian.about.com/od/desertrecipes/r/avofudge.htm)

Ingredients

1 avocado, ripened
1/2 cup margarine
2 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup cocoa
2.5 cups powdered sugar

Preparation:
In a medium sized saucepan, melt the margarine over low heat.
Once margarine is melted, puree with avocado in food processor or blender until perfectly smooth. Be sure there are no chunks of avocado left!

Return mixture to saucepan over very low heat and aff the rest of the ingredients, except the walnuts, adding the powdered sugar a portion at a time.

Once all the sugar has been added, the mixture should be thick. Add walnuts if desired, and transfer to a loaf pan. Refrigerate until firm. Now, be patient! If you don't let it firm up, you won't be able to slice it up into squares.

Peaches poached in wine

Score the skin of 4 peaches. Blanch peaches in boiling water for 15 seconds. Remove and allow to cool. Peel. Remove pit and cut into sixths.

Bring 4 cups of wine, 1.5 cups of sugar, a knob of ginger and 10 whole black peppercorns to boil. Stir and heat until sugar is dissolved.

Poach peach slices in wine for 5 minutes.

Remove peaches and reduce wine volume to 2 cups.

Chill.



Appetizers


Fresh lucky strawberries



Poll: Summer rolls, single- or double-skinned?


Stew and couscous





Leftover fight


These babies were loaded

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