An Afternoon in the Kitchen

I made a black cherry galette this past Monday on my night to cook. A galette is a rustic fruit pie. You just plop the sugared fruit on a disk of dough, pinch up the corners all around and this is what you get:

And I made dry rub spareribs in the oven for dinner. 

But there were several obstacles to perfection:

1. I had a morning eye appointment and the doctor dilated my eyes. Even several hours later in the kitchen I could not see what I was doing, and pitting cherries takes some coordination. There may be pits in the pie.

2. The spareribs cook all afternoon at a very low oven temperature. The galette cooks at 425, like a pie, for almost an hour. I couldn't figure out how to get both done in one afternoon with one oven.

3. The day was stormy, and there was brief sleet. It's the third week in May for crying out loud. I had to run outside in my blindness to bring in the patio chair cushions while fiddling with oven temperature controls that I could not see and I may have cooked the cushions.

Well.  

It all came out fine. I recovered my sight, the spareribs were tender, and the galette was very acceptable. The chair cushions are dry. I'm off kitchen duty til next Monday afternoon. I'll work on getting it under better control then.

Til then, have a slice. It was surprisingly good.