Hospital tray-shepherd's pie fantasy

Highly uninspiring hospital food, albeit artfully presented. If anyone needs the freestyle gourmet, it's a hospital! Sadly, my aunt who loved a gourmet meal is here...far from any culinary inspiration.

One grey lump is the purreed chicken, some mashed potatoes, and purreed green peas. Additionally on the tray is a 'slurried' biscuit, whatever that is. With the packets of sugar, salt, and pepper, what would you do?

If they supplied a little pastry shell, I suppose you could craft a Little sort of shepherd's pie...I'm sure I could find some white bread....but something crispier? Aha...deconstructed microwavable apple pie?....I'll go look...

Some inspiration is already happening...all hospitals should take up this charge!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/nyregion/new-milford-hospital-cafe-defies-stereotypes.html

http://www.plowtoplate.org/

egg-spiration with buttermilk

it was easy to think that a couple of eggs with tomatoes, cheese and herbs would be a good sunday morning pick me up...but then there was the buttermilk, sitting quite remote in the fridge....

why not?

a splash of buttermilk in the eggs, with the fixins, and a delicious and fluffy (i think the volume nearly doubled!) egg breakfast came out!

i will do this one again!!!

oven roasted all - in ratatouille

Fresh from Aicha's oven, minutes before they left for  france...she snapped this photo and emailed it in.

perhaps inspired by the advancing trip (memory waves of wafting warm air & herbs...?)

and with the need to clean out the fridge of veggies,

she created a masterpiece!!!