Wednesday, July 15, 2009

TV Dinner

With Lars & Katarina gone to Spain, it's been me + my three housemates/coworkers at Appelfabriken the passed week. We've been managing everything from weeding to watering the greenhouse, from baking 10 rhubarb crumbles for the weekend to meticulously labeling all of the new vinegars, saft and jam produced.

We've also been running the house- meals, cleaning (the Russian girl truly is a godsend), laundry, closing windows, opening windows, cats... You get the point. I decided to surprise everyone with dinner one night (it's usually a group effort) so I drove to the store (big minivan, no rearview mirror) to pick up my ingredients. Simple. Tomatoes, cucumbers, lox, cream cheese, homemade thick bread. When I returned, I sliced the bread and began toasting. I peeled and sliced the cucumbers, sliced tomatoes and put the lox on a platter. I found a nice bowl for the cream cheese. I picked a huge salad from the garden- Bibb, arugula and purple lettuces.

When I returned from the garden and had plated it all, I called everyone to the living room. We're home alone- I figured a TV dinner wouldn't hurt! Everyone loved the lox/cream cheese/veg/toast combo- a surprising percentage had never had it... But I think they loved the TV factor just as much! It looks basic, and it IS but I'm telling you they RAVED!

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