Silver Case

A whole bunch of us have April birthdays.  Today we celebrated at my house.  Food was good, and more importantly, from a planning aspect, it worked really well.

Mom sent me an 18″ paella pan. So last night I made a fish paella to see how it worked. Answer was it worked really well.  Five of us devoured a whole dish of it.  Additionally I prepared a dry rub for ten racks of baby back ribs.  I used twenty smoked chillies I bought last summer in USA.  We readied the mise en place for baked beans and I vinegared the potatoes for potato salad.

So this morning I woke up at 7am.  I tossed together two pounds of Great Northern Beans into a dutch oven with stocks, spices, and some really smoky anchos.  Those baked at 250F for five hours.  I wrapped up the ribs in indivdual aluminum foil boats with lots of nice braising sauce and crammed all ten in my big oven.  They braised for 2:45 at 250F.

When the guests arrived between 12:15 and 1pm everythign simultanesouly finished, the beans, a fresh paella, the potato salad, and the meat.   I wasn’t even sweating.  Then I was totally done with the kitchen, and just enjoyed the rest of the afternoon.  I think we’re only left with a rack of ribs, a pile of potato salad, and of course, a tons of beans.

By-the-way, the paella was nice.  It seems like a really easy way to make a nice vegetarian garbage plate.  It helps that I have a very wide element on my stove, so it gets even heating.

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