Friday, January 4, 2008

What Happened to All the Food?!


I haven't posted any of our food lately. I haven't been making anything very exciting. Just old faithfuls, such as risottos, polenta with goop on top, pasta, whatever I can pull off in a short time, without much fore though. Usually it is something of my own invention, sometimes good, sometimes just edible. But, as you already know, I don't ever take the time to type out a recipe for you all. I do the lazy way. I give you our recipes, only if they are from the web. That way, I only have to hyper-link...

Well, I have done a few things from the web in recent times...

For Christmas I made cream puffs, filled them with peppermint ice cream & served with Kahlua Chocolate sauce. This is pretty much the recipe. But, I didn't make the hazelnut gelato.

(On a side note, we are having a gorgeous storm right now. My front door just flew open. Ah! It is now dead-bolted...)

Leah & I had a Post Christmas Open House together. I honestly didn't make too much for that, either. I roasted chickens, using her great recipe. I baked a ham. I made our favorite cauliflower soup. I made a basic chocolate drop cookie, with Macadamia Nuts, Ghiradelli Bittersweet Chocolate Chips & Guittard Cappuccino Chips. Yummy.

The only new thing I made was this really tasty Apple Spice Cake. But, be ye warned, the reviewers who said their cake totally fell apart, when taking it out of the pan... uh huh. That happened to me, too...

After the open house (which was fun, by the way) we have had tons of ham leftover. So, we had fried rice with ham. Right now I am working on a quiche for the weekend breakfasts, with ham & spinach. We will have a favorite salad of ours tonight. It is a composed salad, meant to be artfully arranged on the plate, or whatever. It has slices of ham, lettuce tossed in a Dijon vinaigrette, sauteed apples, balsamic pearl onions & Gruyere cheese.

Tomorrow we will be trying this Cassoulet, from the latest Martha issue....

4 comments:

Stef said...

this blog made me nice and hungry. SO I went and made a pot of hot and sour soup with tofu. Such a nerd, I know.

I was noticing your bookshelves on the right side of your window... are those pear shaped things a pepper and salt shaker?? I have the same ones! I bought mine at Home Goods, so I'm dying to know where you got yours, unless maybe you have Home Goods out there?

Stef said...

also... the storm is amazing. I think its hit all of Northern Cali because Laura in S.F and she's got the same thing going on and my friend Jess in Sac. said its "raining cats and dogs there, with heavy winds."

Our backyard has no landscaping and so isn't level yet and right now it looks like a very dirty lake is out there.

Anonymous said...

By the way....
I'm having a BOY too!!!
We found out today. Hehe. :)

Erin said...

Melissa - Yeah! I am going to email you...