Lazy Friday

Lazy on the blogging front, that is. I'm being a crazy person at work. But I need to take a moment to brag about my book club, which is The New Awesome. We met a couple of weeks ago to chat about Animal, Vegetable, Miracle. The theme for the food was "local," and it just had to incorporate some kind of local product. Up here we have Weeks Jam, Aggie ice cream, Cox honey, and all kinds of good stuff. Here are some of the things we had:

Zollinger apple cider

Gossner's smoked squeaky cheese

Goldfish crackers from the nearby Pepperidge Farm plant, which, yes, kind of a cheat, but hey--I love me some goldfish. (Note: You can also buy 2-lb bags of Godiva chocolate for $8 there, which is pretty much the way to buy my love.)

I made a rustic apple tart using Pepperidge Farm puff pastry and brought Gossner's cream to pour over it. It was dang good, if I do say so myself, and really easy. The most time-consuming part was peeling and slicing all the apples.


(pic from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food: Great Foods Fast cookbook, which you should really go buy right now because it's amazing.)

Next month we're reading The City of Ember, and it's a bit trickier to know what kind of food goes really well with this. Only canned items? Food that grows in the dark? Bats and baby orcs? None of these sound especially appealing to me.

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