[Sca-cooks] An Andalusian Lunch at Red Dragon

[David Friedman]

>I'm planning the lunch for our event in early October.  The kitchen 
>will be tied up by feast prep, so most items will be prepared ahead 
>of time.  Recipes are from The Anonymous Andalusian Cookbook, some 
>via Uratim's site.  I'm trying to aim for what might have been 
>served at a picnic or at a hunting trip
>
>I'd appreciate comments or suggestions, especially for another 
>veggie dish that is good served cold.


1. Note that at the time of that cookbook, oranges are sour oranges, 
not the modern sweet oranges which came in from China a couple of 
hundred years later.

2. You might want to look at al-Warraq, which has a lot of cold 
dishes. I've recently done the soused eggplant, which is very 
vinegary but does have the advantage that you can make it up to a 
year in advance.

3. Barmakiya is good cold (but not a vegetable dish).

4. Cooked Dish of Lentils, from the other 13th c. Andalusian 
cookbook, is good, but intended to be served hot.

5. Badinjan Muhassa, from al-Warraq, is a good cold dip, loosely 
speaking. Not Andalusian, but it's credited to Ibriham ibn al Mahdi, 
and there is a whole section of Manuscrito Anonimo described as from 
his cookbook.

Hope that helps. Recipes for all the above (except the soused 
eggplant) are in the Miscellany.

>
>Ranvaig
>
>
>choice of:
>
>roast chicken (served cold)
>Barida (salad of chicken, verjuice, spices, and herbs, served cold)
>meatballs of lamb (precooked and heated)
>stuffed eggplant (or another veggie dish)
>
>Almond mustard honey sauce
>Lemon sauce
>
>olives
>stuffed eggs with cilantro, onion, coriander and murri
>(plain boiled eggs)
>something with chickpeas
>marinated cucumbers
>flat bread
>
>dates, dried apricots
>melon and oranges
>
>pomegranate khabisa - semolina with pomegranate and sugar
>Zulabiyya (churros with honey - if I can cook them on site, still 
>thinking about this)
>Mishash (pastry filled with walnuts and fried)
>Muaqqad (candy with nuts)
>other sweets
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