Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Extra virgin
This past weekend was a wonderfully lazy weekend full of laying around and watching cooking shows and salivating and the images and of course...cooking! If anyone gets this channel, the new Cooking Channel....it's incredible! There's shows from Food Network but there's some different ones too.
The new one that I really enjoyed stars Debi Mazer and her husband who is from Tuscany, it's called Extra Virgin (and everyone knows I love my olive oil, too!) It's a super cute show they're so in love and it's all about how he cooks for her and it's all classic Tuscan/Italian dishes. I have to say that Italian dishes are my favorite to cook, maybe that has a lot to do with the fact that it's also one of my top 2 favorite kinds of food to eat (the other is of course, Mexican.) On the episode I watched he makes a traditional Tuscan lasagna with the béchamel sauce and all the other good stuff. I really want to start making lasagna, my grandmother on my mom's side was the one who did it for the family and everyone came to her for lasagna and now my mom has carried on the tradition and now it's up to me! I will do it :)
Then I was watching Giada...LOVE. She made this delicious lemon Parmesan risotto that looked delicious. I've never had it or made it before this is definitely going to be the recipe I will use to try it.
So on Sunday Karl's boss came over and I cooked a delicious meal of Chicken Parm with smoked mozzarella, pasta and sauce, garlic bread that I made (Butter, parsley, sea salt, and garlic) and then accompanied by a salad with field greens, feta, dried cranberries and sugared walnuts.
The new one that I really enjoyed stars Debi Mazer and her husband who is from Tuscany, it's called Extra Virgin (and everyone knows I love my olive oil, too!) It's a super cute show they're so in love and it's all about how he cooks for her and it's all classic Tuscan/Italian dishes. I have to say that Italian dishes are my favorite to cook, maybe that has a lot to do with the fact that it's also one of my top 2 favorite kinds of food to eat (the other is of course, Mexican.) On the episode I watched he makes a traditional Tuscan lasagna with the béchamel sauce and all the other good stuff. I really want to start making lasagna, my grandmother on my mom's side was the one who did it for the family and everyone came to her for lasagna and now my mom has carried on the tradition and now it's up to me! I will do it :)
Then I was watching Giada...LOVE. She made this delicious lemon Parmesan risotto that looked delicious. I've never had it or made it before this is definitely going to be the recipe I will use to try it.
So on Sunday Karl's boss came over and I cooked a delicious meal of Chicken Parm with smoked mozzarella, pasta and sauce, garlic bread that I made (Butter, parsley, sea salt, and garlic) and then accompanied by a salad with field greens, feta, dried cranberries and sugared walnuts.
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| Yummy Salad |
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| Yummy meal! |
Monday, March 7, 2011
Taco Saturday?
So this weekend was spent being lazy and sleeping in. It was glorious. Friday Karl and I went to the movies and dinner on Friday and this was the first real meal I've had to eat since Sunday, after having food poisoning and all. It wasn't anything special, just Jack Astor's, but I will say their Lobster dip is quite delicious!
On Saturday I made an old stand by, tacos! You can't really go wrong with tacos, can you? I had the usual toppings: Cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, hot sauce but I made my own guacamole! I haven't made it in awhile so it felt really good to make it myself, I've had some good mixes and the Wholly Guacamole is pretty good too in a pinch but there's not like fresh, homemade guac! I put the usual suspects in there, jalapeño, cilantro, red onion, tomato, salt, pepper, fresh lime juice, and then my special ingredient....hot sauce! It gives it that extra kick that is super delicious. I had some left over so made myself a bean quasadilla for lunch today
With being sick most of the week, I wasn't doing much cooking or much eating for that matter. Almost everything bothered my stomach, it's still a little bothersome but I'm getting back to normal.
On Saturday I made an old stand by, tacos! You can't really go wrong with tacos, can you? I had the usual toppings: Cheese, lettuce, tomato, sour cream, hot sauce but I made my own guacamole! I haven't made it in awhile so it felt really good to make it myself, I've had some good mixes and the Wholly Guacamole is pretty good too in a pinch but there's not like fresh, homemade guac! I put the usual suspects in there, jalapeño, cilantro, red onion, tomato, salt, pepper, fresh lime juice, and then my special ingredient....hot sauce! It gives it that extra kick that is super delicious. I had some left over so made myself a bean quasadilla for lunch today
With being sick most of the week, I wasn't doing much cooking or much eating for that matter. Almost everything bothered my stomach, it's still a little bothersome but I'm getting back to normal.
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