The market served as a beautiful jumping off point for me...I haven’t stopped cooking but its gotten awful quiet around here...and admittedly over the winter I did overindulge a bit. I’m blaming a new job, the holiday season and a damn fine French cookbook...holy-majoly, I was not eating right! But I’m back to eating my vegetables and watching my portions and I couldn’t be happier to see the warm weather (and the sunlight that stretches until 9pm) return. With its return I’m hoping to resurrect the writing I do here.
Lately I’ve broken through a few ‘food fears’ of mine: I baked a loaf of yeast baked bread (!!) and I managed to (miraculously) pull an almost flawless bundt cake from its pan. I’ve been feeling rather invincible…you know, until I burn something. The man and I have been experimenting in mixology which is exciting and terrifying at the same time…we are ardent beer and wine people, but I’ve recently found that if you crush herbs into a cocktail I’m totally smitten with it. (Next up: I’m going to conquer the Americano.)
As I said; we haven’t stopped cooking. There have been all sorts of spring risottos, with fiddleheads and asparagus. There was a week of cold rain that was eventually chased away with pasta carbonara (dear whole foods, thanks for selling prosciutto ends for almost free) I made apple rhubarb bundt cake and a loaf of sesame bread. I roasted fish over leeks and tomatoes, and last week I made amazing turkey burgers on our charcoal grill and I knew summer was on its way.
I cant wait to show you what else we're up to this season.
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