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= Open house =
= Open house =


* 2015-03-03 [http://minimalistbaker.com/mediterranean-baked-sweet-potatoes/ mediterranean baked sweet potatoes], it tastes so great!  Best dish in the last several months.  We tripled the recipe, using 12 larger sweet potatoes - this was way too many potatoes, four dishes, and we just left an entire dish for next week to make soup with.  We also should have had way more tomatoes (we had 6 roma), and more sauce as well (we started with 300ml hummus) - the sauce is delicious!  When we do it again, I'd say: 9 large sweet potatoes, 9 tomatoes, and 600ml of hummus. 
* 2015-02-17 Tibetan Lentil Soup (green, spicy) & Curried Lentil Soup (red) with bagels from Mabels.  Both recipes from Roberta's FRESH restaurant cookbook, single each, but we should have made more.  The red was awesome, the green was good.  Bagels actually worked well, but we needed way more than 8.  Green took much longer than the claimed 15 minutes - more like the same 30 minutes as the red, so wish we'd started them at the same time.  Somebody brought a gigantic apple pie from costco to end the dinner.
* 2015-02-17 Tibetan Lentil Soup (green, spicy) & Curried Lentil Soup (red) with bagels from Mabels.  Both recipes from Roberta's FRESH restaurant cookbook, single each, but we should have made more.  The red was awesome, the green was good.  Bagels actually worked well, but we needed way more than 8.  Green took much longer than the claimed 15 minutes - more like the same 30 minutes as the red, so wish we'd started them at the same time.  Somebody brought a gigantic apple pie from costco to end the dinner.
* 2015-02-10 [http://ohmyveggies.com/30-minute-vegetarian-pho/ Veggie Pho], claims 30 minutes but with our slow stove, took about an hour.  We tripled, and used two pots.  Ended up with far too much pasta (we used three packages of thicker rice vermicelli), and far too little bean sprouts and broth.  Overall it's only OK, not great.  The expensive shiitake mushrooms are almost lost in the pasta (maybe next time just use regular mushrooms to save money?), and it's not got any visual pop.  Next time, maybe make the stock ourselves?  Totally DO add broccoli and bok choy.  Maybe extra firm tofu?  Anyway, edible but not incredible, but there is promise...
* 2015-02-10 [http://ohmyveggies.com/30-minute-vegetarian-pho/ Veggie Pho], claims 30 minutes but with our slow stove, took about an hour.  We tripled, and used two pots.  Ended up with far too much pasta (we used three packages of thicker rice vermicelli), and far too little bean sprouts and broth.  Overall it's only OK, not great.  The expensive shiitake mushrooms are almost lost in the pasta (maybe next time just use regular mushrooms to save money?), and it's not got any visual pop.  Next time, maybe make the stock ourselves?  Totally DO add broccoli and bok choy.  Maybe extra firm tofu?  Anyway, edible but not incredible, but there is promise...

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