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Sunday, February 27
Bitter Lemons
[prelude] Last night, I made pizza. In the usual fashion, which is to say a lump of dough, stretched out as thin as it will possibly go, lightly smeared with thick tomato sauce, then topped with basil, cheese, and pepperoni on one side, and blitzed at 500+ degrees for about 8 minutes. The crust wasn't as chewy as I like but all of the flavors were good.
Afterwards, I had a very preheated oven that wasn't going to cool off anytime soon (due to the 4 pizza stones in there), so I decided to roast some veggies. Unfortunately, I didn't have many roastable items around, so out of the fridge came a red onion and a lemon, both chopped roughly. Out of the freezer came a bag of farmer's market green beans and yellow hot peppers. These had past their prime and I hadn't figured out what to do with them, so into the big chill they went. All of these veggies were splayed out onto a cookie sheet then misted with olive oil, and left to roast for about an hour.
Nigella, I believe, roasts chopped up lemons with her chicken and then eats them with the meal later. It is possible that my lemon wasn't that great, but when I ate a piece of the roasted yellow leather it had a very harsh bitterness that sadly did not hold up to the otherwise rich and heightened lemon flavor of the peel. I could have peeled the little pieces, but I was definitely too lazy to do that.
When breakfast time was upon the late Sunday morning, I started making a big and very thin omelet with habanero salsa stirred into the mix, quickly heated up the veggies (sans lemon but with a squirt of lemon juice) and then folded the whole contraption onto itself. It was indeed a big pile o' food, but being just a bunch of veggies and a one egg omelet, it was lightly filling and warming from the yellow hot peppers.
Tonight I think I'm feeling like some lentil soup.... mmmm.
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