"There's nothing in this house to eat!"

[elfs]

"I brought this for dinner," said one of the guests to our bi-weekly Sunday D&D game. "This" turned out to be a 30oz salmon fillet that he had caught himself earlier that week.

There was a moment of scrambling. Omaha and I hadn't done the weekly grocery shopping yet, for one thing. We looked at each other and wondered aloud about how we could cook it. We hadn't planned on this.

I cast about the kitchen. I thought. "There are peaches there," I said, pointing to the fruit basket. "And two Mexican zucchini." Big ones. "We have tomatoes in the back yard. Do we have any red onion?"

"There are two halves in the fridge. Somebody keeps slicing new onions without checking to see if there's already one in there."

Oops.

Dinner was salmon roasted in butter, a peach-tomato-red onion salsa topping tempered with lime juice, and broiled zucchini coins with sweated onions and Parmesan. It took all of 20 minutes to put together. I had a lovely white wine. I am the Iron Chef!

Really, D&D games shouldn't be this well-fed. Where are the Cheetos, the overdoses of soda pop, the bad pizza?

Comments

[elfs.livejournal.com]

Yellow onions cook in stages. The first stage, "sweated," evaporates all the sulfurous compounds out of them, leaving them with a slight bite but none of the eye-watering effects of raw onions.

[fayanora.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool.