I wound up making the third menu yesterday, as I am terrible at keeping to the schedule. But I had my buddy A over, and the three of us watched A Series of Unfortunate Events and ate the menu.
The menu was:
Swiss Steak
Mashed Sweet Potatoes
Creamed Cauliflower
Bread and Butter
Chocolate Nougat Cake
This was a less successful meal. Firstly, I think that vegetables were smaller a hundred years ago. One cauliflower is more than two or three servings, and three good sized sweet potatoes is far more than what is needed for three people. Also, the cake was supposed to be frosted with white mountain icing, and boy oh boy is frosting an area that I am lacking! It's not a buttercream, it's beating molten sugar into beaten egg whites. And I think I'm going to cheat and use the mixer next time before I fully write off the recipe. Also the cake was so outrageously fluffy! I forget that that is a desired quality in cake, as it merely screams "box mix" to me, even though I know perfectly well that it's from scratch.
But dinner was very edible, and not terrible for all that the portions were skewed and it took longer than I would like. Boo. Oh, and for all that the meat recipe was supposedly good for the fireless, it was nearly cold when I pulled it out.
So this meal wont be repeated without some changes.
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