{"id":111,"date":"2010-02-23T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juliebiuso.com\/blog\/?p=111"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:39:53","slug":"life-of-a-peach-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juliebiuso.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/life-of-a-peach-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Life of a Peach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">Daughter was going out. So could  I PLEASE make dinner early? Well, I approached the kitchen all  well-intentioned,  but then we had the chicken incident and so there was no dinner.  A quick scrabble in the fridge produced eggs, peppers, celery, spring  onions, chillies, fennel, salami, salad, limes and lemons. Enough  inspiration  for a thousand meals. But we&#8217;d wanted chicken. Chicken in a pot.  Chicken with pancetta. Chicken with baby mushrooms. Chicken with  shallots.  Chicken with white wine. Chicken with herbs.  Chicken with all of these things &#8211; yes, chicken bonne femme,  as in &#8216;the good woman&#8217;, the &#8216;farmer&#8217;s wife&#8217;, fat of the land,  old-fashioned  French country goodness served by a plump rosy-cheeked maman (that was  going to be me, plump and rosy-cheeked from the heat of the oven!).  But to no avail. The chicken was off, off the menu, sure, but literally  off. Flung in a bin. Until I remembered the cost, $18.99, and dug it  out along with the receipt from the supermarket from whence it came.  It shouldn&#8217;t have been for sale on its expiry date. Phoned the manager.  At 5.55pm. And got him. He thought someone could possibly drop me a  fresh chicken on their way home and took my number and promised to ring  back. He did ring back, in a matter of minutes, but unfortunately, no  one was coming my way, so he offered to bring it himself, but it  wouldn&#8217;t  be for 30 minutes. So he offered me a deal: he would drop me a fresh  chicken in 30 minutes (meaning dinner would not be ready before daughter   had to go out and I&#8217;d have a whole chicken bonne femme to myself at  9.00pm) or I could collect a fresh chicken at my convenience AND get  my money back for the dead chook providing I had the receipt and brought   in the dead chook. He rescinded and said I didn&#8217;t have to bring in the  dead chook, realizing how whiffy it could be given an extra 24 hours.  I thought that was a pretty damned good offer from Luke at Takapuna  Foodtown. He knew me just as Julie. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">*\u00a0*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">But the problem with dinner was not  solved. We looked at the collection of bits and bobs, celery, spring  onions, salami et al, and I&#8217;m not sure if she sighed first or if we  sighed in unison. It was sad. All shruggy shoulders and down-turned  lips. Appetite gone. I proposed resurrecting the leftover pasta with  fresh tomato sauce (the tomatoes were from the garden so one couldn&#8217;t  grizzle) and making pasta fritta (fried pasta) and that was going to  do, for her, but you know, when the thrill goes out of it, your energy  goes. Then I remembered the sourdough bread. Thank GOD for  sourdough  bread. Because sourdough bread is a saviour, an absolute saviour, a  meal on its own, something you could curl up in a corner and just chew  on, slowly\u2026. and not share.\u00a0 Bean puree, she said,  fried eggplant, I said, and away we went. The richest, satiating,  sensational bruschetta yet. 10 minutes work, max.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">Here&#8217;s how:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">Puree a can of cannellini beans in a food processor. Tip them into a small pan in which you have 2  crushed  or minced cloves of garlic, 1 Tbsp of chopped rosemary and 2 crushed  tiny dried bird&#8217;s eye chillies melting in 2 tablespoons of extra  virgin olive oil. Stir the puree around until hot, add a few splashes  of water if it is too thick. And there you have it &#8211; a superior bean  puree.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica; font-size: small;\">Slice some thick chunks of sourdough  bread and drink in the yeasty sour smell\u00a0 (smelling is nearly as  good as eating). Char the bread on a grill or in a dry ridged frying  pan. Rub each slice with a cut clove of garlic and slather with bean  puree, then top with chopped slices of fried or barbecue eggplant and  scrunch a bit of rocket on top, pour a glass of full-bodied red wine,  sit with daughter, munch, slurp, mop dribbles, laugh and giggle. Stuff  the chicken.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughter was going out. 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