Naomi: Cooking for one and for friends



For years now, even before I wrote the recipes in what I think of as my "static blog," Fiftytworecipesfrommymother, at the request of my children, Sarah and Sam, Sarah had been urging me to keep a daily (more or less) record of my cookings--the meals I make for myself in my (surprisingly) solitary life as well as those I make for friends. For whatever reasons, I've never done it.


But, after months of wandering, I've finally begun. As I haven't quite mastered the art of cooking for one, and love throwing together grand meals at the last minute, I have been encouraging friends to call to check on what I might have on hand any evening for a quick meal. Instructions can be found in my entry for March 20th--What's in Naomi's Refrigerator.

This is primarily a record of the meals I prepare for myself and others, accompanied by "mug shots" of the food (when I remember to photograph before eating). Shot by my phone, with no styling, they may not capture their subjects at their best, but so be it.



Saturday, April 14, 2012

April 14th. Weeding. Salad for Lunch. Scrambled eggs with vegetables. Chicken soup with matzoh balls.


Westminster Elementary Garden with weeders and clouds
Weeded in the Westminster Elementary School Garden in the morning.  Post-rain--plenty of mud.  The damp earth made weeding relatively easy, though it certainly is an endless task.   
Documentation of Muddy Knees (Deidre Samuels, 2012) 
I did get my hands dirty too, but they didn't make it into the picture.  Note the weeds at my feet--they're now history.  The garden is looking amazing--slowly taking over the immense asphalt parking lot.  Rewarding myself for community participation, I brought home a tiny perfect bunch of sweetpeas, and made  a lovely lunch plate of greens with avocado, fennel, cherry tomatoes and steak.


Turned out to be a day of many meals.  Raph and Rinat's friends Leigh and Maxine arrived mid-afternoon after driving from Oakland.  Maxine, who graduated from UCLA last year was going to a banquet there this evening, but she needed a little pre-dinner sustenance so I scrambled up some eggs with the last of the zucchini mushroom tomato dish.  Had to eat a bit myself, which didn't stop me from having a bowl of chicken soup (oh, I am getting a lot of mileage out of those matzoh balls) for still another meal later that evening.

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  1. SarahApril 20, 2012 at 5:51 AM

    You are being an excellent blogger!!
    And a very good eater-

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