With a few hours to spare

[mousme]

So the place is clean. Did the last of the scrubbing today, and all that's left for tomorrow morning is strictly cosmetic.

Made the soup tonight. Am trying luvenditti's world-famous corn chowder as an entrée (no, I'm not kidding: people fight over this soup!), and the main course will be lemon tarragon roasted cornish hens with a side dish of asparagus (I made mayonnaise for the very first time today, and I think it turned out not bad at all!) and another of wild rice with raisins and almonds (it's a sauté recipe). The wild rice has been partially prepared tonight: all it needs is to be sautéed in the relevant ingredients tomorrow.

If I can pull it all together, it should work really, really well.

If I can drag my ass out of bed early enough, too, I might have time to make banana bread. If not, I shall make the aforementioned banana bread after lunch, while I chat with joane and shenlo. I'd love to have the whole place smelling of banana bread when they arrive, though. There's nothing nicer than the smell of baking banana bread.

I really need a cooking icon. Maybe I shall do that while the soup heats. I had to alter the recipe a bit to make it work, and I'm wondering if I might not need to adjust it again a little bit. It seems a little heavy on the cream and a little light on the corn in its current incarnation (taste-wise). However, I am reserving judgment until it's heated through.

Off to go find a cooking icon.