2012-02-04: A Free-Form Day

It finally happened - I needed a day to depart from cooking from the recipes because: a) my fridge is already full of food and I need to finish it before it goes bad, b) I fell asleep from a nap and by the time I awoke, it was too late to start the pot roast, and c) I really felt the need to cook something from a creative stance, instead of from a recipe. 

So I finished drying the dill and bottled it.  I started it off by baking it on a cookie sheet at around 200 degrees farenheit for gosh-knows-how-long, then I shut off the oven and let it sit in the oven overnight. Then I left it on the kitchen table.  Then I had to bottle it to protect it from my cat, who may or may not have thought it was catnip. (Who knows what a cat is thinking?)  I'm not certain if this is how dill is supposed to be dried, but it seems to have worked.

Also, after finishing off the Tri-Melon Salad for dinner, I was hankering for something a little sweet.  So I put together a berry sauce from a few random things in my kitchen.

1 cup mixed frozen berries
1 Tbsp Fragoli
1 Tbsp Raspberry Vinegar
1 tsp honey
1 cup water

Everything got boiled in a pot and simmered for about half an hour before getting strained through a sieve and cooled.  Then into a bowl it went with the last of my vanilla ice cream.  Yum.  There was enough sauce in that bowl for maybe four or five bowls of ice cream, however I had no more vanilla ice cream.  And I shouldn't eat that much ice cream in one sitting ;)

Neck stretches - done.