Some of our favorites of the year...
Czech Food - Bohemian Sweet and Sour Cabbage, Roasted Pork (Veprova Pecene) and Bread Dumplings (Houskove Knedliky) - we missed Prague...and tried to recreate it on-the-cheap!
What do you think? Does my Cod with Tomatoes and Leeks look much like Martha's?
BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad - again...a re-creation of something I miss...the Yard House version is WAY better, but it was fun to give it a shot!
The first loaf of bread I tried to bake this year - it is whole wheat. It was okay, but salty - all the loaves I've tried from the same recipe book I used for this one came out salty....so I looked elsewhere for good recipes...guess I could have just limited the salt, though, huh?
Mmmm...golden raisin and walnut bread...
Matt actually made this one (without anyone to even be his sous chef or anything). It is homemade ricotta and herb gnocchi and foccacia with gorgonzola and pine nuts. Oooo... so impressive.... But seriously, it was REALLY good. Like Amazing.
Bad picture, but great dessert - a blueberry and nectarine croustade...I learned how to make these at a Sur la Table cooking class with my Aunt Barb in DC one summer...this is the only one I have made without her supervision that came out as well as I hoped it would :)
Honey white bread. I'm sort of a bread snob, so really "look down on" white bread, but Matt and I are completely hooked on this bread - we (I) make a couple of loaves every other weekend...it makes the best toast EVER...just slather it with homemade strawberry jam and it's almost better than dessert (I said almost...).
Pumpkin pancakes....I was too hungry to wait for pumpkin bread to bake, so I cheated and made pancakes...they were easy and AWESOME!
And another re-creation...we had something similar to this at a local farmers market with some friends and I couldn't wait to see if I could make it on my own! Brioche Bread Pudding French Toast with cranberries. I "made up" the recipe, so it could certainly use some refining, but it came out pretty well for a first try!
This was our New Years' Eve dinner - Bubble and Squeak! It has brussel sprouts, turnips, potatoes, onions and rutabagas in it - and we used turnips and rutabagas from our garden that we picked literally moments before cooking...mmm....
And this is the bubble and squeak with the onion gravy and sausages on top! We tried two kinds of sausages - one pork and one venison with blueberries...both awesome!! Such a great way to ring in the New Year.
Czech Food - Bohemian Sweet and Sour Cabbage, Roasted Pork (Veprova Pecene) and Bread Dumplings (Houskove Knedliky) - we missed Prague...and tried to recreate it on-the-cheap!
What do you think? Does my Cod with Tomatoes and Leeks look much like Martha's?
BBQ Chicken Chopped Salad - again...a re-creation of something I miss...the Yard House version is WAY better, but it was fun to give it a shot!
The first loaf of bread I tried to bake this year - it is whole wheat. It was okay, but salty - all the loaves I've tried from the same recipe book I used for this one came out salty....so I looked elsewhere for good recipes...guess I could have just limited the salt, though, huh?
Mmmm...golden raisin and walnut bread...
Matt actually made this one (without anyone to even be his sous chef or anything). It is homemade ricotta and herb gnocchi and foccacia with gorgonzola and pine nuts. Oooo... so impressive.... But seriously, it was REALLY good. Like Amazing.
Bad picture, but great dessert - a blueberry and nectarine croustade...I learned how to make these at a Sur la Table cooking class with my Aunt Barb in DC one summer...this is the only one I have made without her supervision that came out as well as I hoped it would :)
Honey white bread. I'm sort of a bread snob, so really "look down on" white bread, but Matt and I are completely hooked on this bread - we (I) make a couple of loaves every other weekend...it makes the best toast EVER...just slather it with homemade strawberry jam and it's almost better than dessert (I said almost...).
Pumpkin pancakes....I was too hungry to wait for pumpkin bread to bake, so I cheated and made pancakes...they were easy and AWESOME!
And another re-creation...we had something similar to this at a local farmers market with some friends and I couldn't wait to see if I could make it on my own! Brioche Bread Pudding French Toast with cranberries. I "made up" the recipe, so it could certainly use some refining, but it came out pretty well for a first try!
This was our New Years' Eve dinner - Bubble and Squeak! It has brussel sprouts, turnips, potatoes, onions and rutabagas in it - and we used turnips and rutabagas from our garden that we picked literally moments before cooking...mmm....
And this is the bubble and squeak with the onion gravy and sausages on top! We tried two kinds of sausages - one pork and one venison with blueberries...both awesome!! Such a great way to ring in the New Year.
3 comments:
Why in the world would you go out to eat if you guys cook like this? You need to get some lousy cook books.
Hey, what books are you cooking out of? I need more exotic foods like these. Mmmm.
If I could afford to pay you, I would hire you guys to be my personal chefs. I was just, just saying how I need someone to make delicious food for me. ;) We are always in a spaghetti, enchilada, pizza rut. Boo
Oh, and BEAUTIFUL food btw.
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