Sharing Food Between Friends
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twilightponyThis was Starlight Glimmer's first pot luck supper! For her, it was a new friendship experience. Since the time, date and place were already set, we went straight to the next step: what to bring to the table? Spike suggested we go to the Ponyville market for inspiration and to see what we could find. So Starlight and I tossed our saddle bags on and the three of us trotted down to the market. We met Pinkie on the way in and Rarity on the way out. We resisted the urge to peek furtively into each other's saddle bags and baskets for clues as to what the other had planned. That would spoil the surprise!
It's still early spring and Ponyville isn't experiencing the riotous spurt of growth that is going on in the Crystal Empire, so fresh anything is a bit rare right now. We picked up a bag of sesame seeds, some eggs and milk for baking, a box of raisins, a bag of carrots, a few jars of apple butter, dried rose petals, a small bag of rosemary, thyme and another of sage, and some early cattails. Then we went back home to work out what to fix.
Since there are three of us, it follows that we should provide three dishes. Plus fill in any gaps (like beverages) since we're hosting the supper. After a bit, we settled on baking a bread, to serve with the apple butter, a salad, mostly grated carrot with diced cooked cattail, and third cut hay, because hay is a must.
We got to work, or rather, Spike and Starlight Glimmer got to work mixing and cooking, I just kept track of the recipes. The bread was a sesame raisin bread, and Starlight whipped up a silage sauce for the carrot/cattail salad. I fluffed up a flake of third cut hay and mixed the rose petals we'd bought into it. I called it a harbinger of the hay harvest. Because it smelled of summer.
By the time the bread was cooked, the table was set, and our friends started to arrive. As always, there was too much to eat, and we had a great time chatting. We never got around to breaking out the games. That will be for another time and another friendship experience for Starlight Glimmer.
It's still early spring and Ponyville isn't experiencing the riotous spurt of growth that is going on in the Crystal Empire, so fresh anything is a bit rare right now. We picked up a bag of sesame seeds, some eggs and milk for baking, a box of raisins, a bag of carrots, a few jars of apple butter, dried rose petals, a small bag of rosemary, thyme and another of sage, and some early cattails. Then we went back home to work out what to fix.
Since there are three of us, it follows that we should provide three dishes. Plus fill in any gaps (like beverages) since we're hosting the supper. After a bit, we settled on baking a bread, to serve with the apple butter, a salad, mostly grated carrot with diced cooked cattail, and third cut hay, because hay is a must.
We got to work, or rather, Spike and Starlight Glimmer got to work mixing and cooking, I just kept track of the recipes. The bread was a sesame raisin bread, and Starlight whipped up a silage sauce for the carrot/cattail salad. I fluffed up a flake of third cut hay and mixed the rose petals we'd bought into it. I called it a harbinger of the hay harvest. Because it smelled of summer.
By the time the bread was cooked, the table was set, and our friends started to arrive. As always, there was too much to eat, and we had a great time chatting. We never got around to breaking out the games. That will be for another time and another friendship experience for Starlight Glimmer.
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