The Obligatory TDay menu

[deborahjross]

TDayDinner was shared with friends. Friends friends (meaning Quakers). Friends friends who are also vegans. Ergo, not a turkey in sight. There was, however,

Carnival squash (a bit like bicolor acorn, only as intensely flavored as butternut) stuffed with a pilaf of wild rice and hazelnuts
Cornbread (made with maple syrup, soy milk, and brown rice flour instead of wheat 'cause Dave it wheat-intolerant
Yams
Mashed potatoes with herbs
Steamed zuccini
Apple crisp with pecan/cinnamon/oat topping
Dave's homemade "Zardoz" wine

All of it very yummy. We talked for about 5 hours on everything from African art and the joys of museums to hypochondria to the worst movies we'd ever seen to whether it's important our particular genetic makeup lives on to amazing stories about Aunt Frances in the Yukon.

Got up this morning, did 30 minutes of mat Pilates, made oatmeal (all right, with apple and dried apricot bits and vanilla). Hope to do some writing and work on the upcoming Book View Cafe posts and chapters of Hastur Lord./i>

Comments

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

The cornbread recipe sounds quite interesting. Is it off a website I can look at, or is the recipe home-grown?

cornbread

[deborahjross.livejournal.com]

I didn't make the cornbread, our friends did. It's a vegan version, only substituting brown rice flour for wheat flour. (I make cornbread with the same substitution, using a standard recipe.) If you can't find something like it online, I can ask her.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

That sounds gorgeous. I'm glad you had a good day.