Emily and I had another lunch club meeting yesterday where we made lamb in fragrant spinach sauce over couscous and chicken sopa, which was kind of like a mexican lasagna. The recipe for the sopa was from the Jimtown cookbook again, and it was miraculous that we could fit all of the layers into the mini loaf pan: fried tortilla, chicken in sauce, cheese, fried tortilla, vegetables, roasted poblano chilis, sauce, fried tortillas and cheese. We even left out a sour cream layer, thinking that it wouldn't freeze well. The lamb with fragrant spinach sauce turned out great. We followed the recipe directions to the letter and actually pureed the sauce separately (a step I was tempted to skip) before bringing it all together to cook the final hour and a half. yum! Yield: ten lunches each at $3.10 a piece. Not too bad... It was hard to keep the kittens off the counter with all the chicken and lamb, but they were cute and have now become totally immune to the spray bottle.
I almost severed a finger chopping onions... thank goodness Nurse Jenny was nearby with antiseptic, vinyl gloves and Scotch. The sopa is so good it was worth it!
Posted by: Emily | April 05, 2004 at 05:28 PM