My 8-year-old son's 3rd grade class has an auction every Wednesday. The
kids can make something at home that is related to a book they've read, and
then they auction it off to their classmates. Usually they make bookmarks,
dioramas, jewelry, etc.
Yesterday, my son came home with a large, ribbon-bedecked basket that
contained a Gladware container of......stew. He paid $19 (of funny money)
for it, and had to outbid several classmates. One of the girls had read a
book in which a vegetable stew figured prominently; the book included the
recipe, so she made the stew.
The stew contains eggplant, tomatoes, carrots, green peppers, onions,
potatoes, and green beans, and it smells wonderful. I will have to get that
book out of the library to get the recipe (I think the book had an Egyptian
theme?), because I'd love to know what those spices are.
We didn't eat the stew; kind of a disappointment to my son, but the stew had
not been refrigerated all day yesterday. (We do know the girl and her
family pretty well, so if the stew had been refrigerated, we would have
tried it). I thought it was cute, though.
Chris
OBEdibleFood: Dinner tonight -- garlic flank steak, Betty W. potatoes,
steamed broccoli, roasted carrots, biscuits. Strawberry ice cream for
dessert.