Preserved

March 16, 2010
Test lunch #8

Tasters: Lisa, Kristin and Mr. H

Menu:
Peanut butter and jelly on homemade bread
Yogurt with strawberries and meyer lemon curd
Sunshine Salad (aka carrot slaw)
Jam Thumbprint Cookie

Recipes, notes and feedback:
PB&J: Jam was a low sugar stone fruit jam I made last summer. Peanut butter was Jif crunchy (the best kind!) and bread was the Simple Whole Wheat, this recipe. It was all okay. Nothing amazing but no major complaints. I found the bread a bit heavy.

Yogurt with strawberries and meyer lemon curd: Homemade plain yogurt, with a few tablespoons of meyer lemon curd and one large, chopped strawberry on top. Lemon curd recipe from Small Batch Preserving (p 111). Yogurt was a total fail. It was gummy--the texture was way off. Oops. The lemon curd and strawberry were great but I should have noted on the menu card that it was "fruit on the bottom" yogurt and should have been stirred. The canning jars worked great but it was a lot of yogurt.

Sunshine Salad: Recipe from Susan Branch's "The Summer Book" (page 72). Subbed about 1/4 part plain yogurt for mayo. This is a basic carrot slaw with mayo, lemon juice, walnuts and raisins. Popular even with Kristin who didn't like raisins. Servings were a bit large.

Jam Thumbprint Cookie: UC Davis Coffee House Cookbook (p 147). Recipe made only about 2 dozen and took more chopped walnuts than were called for. Used stone fruit jam which was perfect. Very tasty cookies.

Other accomplishments:
None, this was a rough week.

Goals for next week:
Do better.