Vday

Is cool for food and decoration

I love the shiny....blood red

Slices for lunch

I had some pieces of this for lunch

I really like Brie.

This was garlic and herb...

Pizza and Tears

Under the careful instruction of Tristan I started with the Pizza dough.

I tried to make it flat enough to through in the air and flatten even further.
the result was a dough full of holes and me weeping in utter misery.
So I started over.
This was the result

An asymmetric dough

With a homemade sauce..

Delicious if I do say so myself (and I do)

Mushrooms and cheese

Sundried Tomato
Kalamata olives

and some Ck

Vegetarians will dislike the Ck part.

I ended up with all kinds of Yummy :)

Eggplant and Potato Curry

I am saving all of Tristan's recipes so I can use them later...
AND I am going to exclude all the ONIONS :(
I got this pic from "LIKE A LOCAL" blog...

Chop 2 large onions

simmer in vegetable oil with

4 tbsps Bolst's Hot Curry Powder (the best)

Chop 8 (2 lbs or so) potatoes into 1" cubes

add to the onions/curry and turn up heat to medium, stir often

Chop 1 eggplant into 1" cubes

add to the onions/curry/potato, stir often

cook 10 min

add 1-2 cups boiling water

stir, turn heat down to simmer and cover

crush 2 cloves of garlic into the mix

simmer 10 min

drain a large can (or 2 regular ones) of chick peas (garbanzo beans) and rinse them

add to the mix

add 2 tbsps Garam Masala (aromatic spice blend)

stir in to the mix

serve over Basmati Rice with Raitha (grated cucumber in yogurt) and Peshwari Naan (if you can get it)

SO my friend sent me the instructions for his Quiche
I am going to leave out the onion for sure!

1/2 stick of butter
1 cup flour
crumble in together until it is like crumbs
add a bit of cold water
and knead into dough
cover - put in fridge
oh yeah and a tablespoon of DIJON mustard in the dough
and sautee in olive oil
until translucent
wash 1lb spinach

(onion is in a BIG pan)
throw in all the spinach
lid on - heat low
stir occasionally
grate cheese...
I used 1 cup "swiss"
1/2 cup parmesan
whisk 3 eggs with 1 cup cream
add cheese to the egg/cream combo
take the spinach off when it is wilted
chop it up a bit
take out the dough
roll it on floured surface
about 12" across
push into a greased 9" tin
so it covers the sides and bottom
mix the spinach into the egg combo
put it all into the pastry
meanwhile your oven has been heating ro 400F
bung it in
bung = chuck
40 mins or so until the top begins to brown
I threw on some sun dried toms 10 min before the end

so quite easy to make
a bit messy
oh also salt & pepper in the filling

Baba

I got Rhum Baba/rum baba from Au Peche (mignon).

It was heavenly

I looked better before we put the cover on in the store

Cheese

I didn't get the boucherondin.
They just didn't have it.
I talked to the cheese girl.
She said they usually have it but didn't order it.
I can check back later in the week she says.
I kind of don't feel complete not having it.
I suppose I will have to make do
I wish I got all the things on my list.
Somehow the cheese has become very important to have.

Impulse

Banana and Chocolate chip

Sounds to me like a great combination :)

New Things

So I never really gave these items a chance before, but I will.
I have gotten tired of meat (a little), so I want to experiment with different flavors.

More Feta for me :)

I never really liked Olives before I had these...Kalamata

I like Sundried Tomatoes

I am partial to goat cheese but I couldn't find boucherondin in the store :(
I got a little frantic. I had to find it. I became a little sad when it was clear that the 'cheese guy' didn't know what I was talking about.
I will try another store today

I am now really into pesto

We can put it all together on sourdough Boule!

E Pudding

I saw this at The Fresh Market and although I am really skeptical I am going to try it because a friend of mine described it to me.
So here it is...

English Pudding

So help me, if this is bad!

A casserole

Ingredients
Leftover Turkey
Stuffing
Cream of Chicken Soup
Seasoning

Cheese
Crushed potato chips

DO This

Then This

Then This- Bake

End up with this..

From the Yummy place

There is a cake shop here.

The ingredients call for a lotof butter but the cakes are like magic

I got this one

But there are more!

Pie

Wow I have never see this pie before!
My friend bought it at a Wal-Mart in Louisiana

Sweet potato

With a nice crusty crust.

It looked yummy and I was starving at that time...

Freeze chocolate and Citrus

My friend made this (Chocolate Citrus Freeze) and sent me the recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 3/4 cups (11.5-oz. pkg.) NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Milk Chocolate Morsels, divided
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup finely crushed chocolate wafer cookies (about 16 cookies)
• 2 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1 3/4 cups heavy whipping cream, divided
• 4 tablespoons powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 cups lowfat orange sherbet ice cream, softened slightly

Directions:
MICROWAVE 1 1/4 cups morsels and 3/4 cup cream in medium, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) power for 1 minute; STIR. Morsels may retain some of their original shape. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until smooth. Stir in vanilla extract. Cool to room temperature.

LINE 9 x 5-inch loaf pan with 2 overlapping sheets of plastic wrap, allowing 4-inch overhang on all sides.

COMBINE crushed cookies and butter in medium bowl. Press onto bottom of prepared loaf pan.

BEAT 3/4 cup cream and powdered sugar in small chilled mixer bowl until stiff peaks form. Carefully fold whipped cream into chocolate mixture until blended. Spoon half of chocolate mousse (about 1 1/2 cups) over cookie layer; smooth top. Freeze for 2 hours or until very firm. Cover and refrigerate remaining chocolate mousse.

SPOON sherbet over frozen chocolate layer; smooth top. Freeze for 2 hours or until very firm.

SPOON remaining chocolate mousse over sherbet layer; smooth top. Freeze for 2 hours or until very firm.

MICROWAVE remaining 1/2 cup morsels and remaining 1/4 cup cream in small, uncovered, microwave-safe bowl on MEDIUM-HIGH (70%) power for 1 minute; STIR. If necessary, microwave at additional 10- to 15-second intervals, stirring just until smooth. Cool for 10 minutes. Spread evenly over mousse layer. Freeze for 4 hours or overnight.

NOTE: Full freezing time is necessary. Each layer must be frozen solid before topped with the next layer for a clean result.

TIPS:
• May be layered with other flavors of sherbet or ice cream.

• To cut slices more easily, run hot water over knife blade and dry prior to cutting.

This as well

I made finger sandwiches

There was Asian chicken

Sushi

And all other kinds of yummy.

Invited

We got invited to this place

The food was ethnic

And oh sooooo good

There was also homemade wine from Muscadine grapes.

All together

We all met and had a great time on T day.

It was so lovely and the weather was warm

I think everybody had fun!

They were full afterward too...

Wow

I made all 20 lbs of this myself and it took 6 hours at 325F

Very delicious!