Domestic Sunday

One could easily argue that all sunday's for me are domestic, but this one particularly so. Keely had a house guest via couchsurfer.com, from Italy, and we decided to do a dinner. I had some ground lamb in the fridge, and was feeling italian, so the theme ended up being me trying to cook italian that a real italian would approve of. Somewhat simultenously I also cooked up a bunch of apples for applesauce and a bunch of plums for apricot-plum jam -- stove got a lot of use. Cooked the lamb up with garlic/onion/carrot/mushrooms, and some red sauce. It was really really sweet mid-summer sauce, so I added a bit of vinegar. Really nice. Also panzanella, with leftover olive juice bread, and apricots and cucumbers, and then the normal ingredients. I was pretty happy with that, as well. Served the lamb over warm polenta that Traves and Teresa had stirred for a long time. My love for warm polenta is from Jamie O, it's the only way to eat it. Keely floured and fried up some eggplant and squash and that was tasty, too. Aprocot sorbet and blueberry sorbet for dessert. The best meal I've had with other people in a while. Though the best meal alone also involved polenta....