Avgolemono

I thought about making the subtitle of this post "If life gives you lemons...".  It is sometimes hard to strike a balance between local food and comfort food.  For the first two weeks we ate every dinner out.  It was delicious but expensive.  Not half as expensive as New York, but expensive.  So the next week we made our own food but being far from home and not yet comfortable with the ingredients here, we mainly stuck to pasta. We even bought a couple of imported boxes of macaroni and cheese.  But tonight I feel as if we found the kind of familiar dish that works perfectly with local ingredients.  We aren't Greek but we LOVE avgolemono and after looking up a recipe a year ago it has been a monthly dinner (at least).  And the ingredients are so easy to come by.  In fact, lemons can be found along our road, having dropped from the tree perfectly ripe.  Tiny lemons and lemons bigger than I've ever seen!  So we had Avgolemono soup, cut local veggies (cabbage, carrots, peppers and cucumber) and for dessert I made no-bake cookies with peanuts, honey, peanut butter, cornflakes and flour.