Well, I’ve been wanting since shortly after Thanksgiving to blog about what all awesome food I had as of late. Yes these are foods that are a must have for me in the future and good thing I paid attention closely on how much of this stuff was prepared.
First thing I want to note is the prosciutto wrapped asparagus with goat cheese. Might tasty green stalks. I’ve even made these again after trying them. I’ve even tried with feta cheese and pecorino romano. The pecorino gave it a slight nutty flavor. Speaking of nutty flavor, we also decided to tweak a 100 year old recipe with some cheese. We added the pecorino to the italian sausage which gave it a slight nutty flavor and it was really good. There was also an apple cheddar sausage made which was mighty tasty. I have learned from a chef that after you cut up your boston butt is to put the meat back in the fridge and get the meat to about 41 degrees before attempting to grind. Also to put the spices on the meat while in the fridge to let them sweat in. These are all good ideas and will be trying them next time we either want to make a different type of italian sausage or breakfast sausage.
At Thanksgiving I made a green bean casserole completely from scratch. No canned anything. It was actually pretty easy, made my own cream of mushroom sauce, no canned french onion crap, and oh my gosh it was fresh and pretty good. This was courtesy of Alton Brown of the Food Network. I saw his show one day and it looked very good, so it was decided that was my job at Thanksgiving. If you wish to search for the recipe you can go to http://www.foodnetwork.com.
So I have found a passion for cooking. What can I say, I love to eat, if you saw me two years ago, you would really believe it, but I still do. I’ve never have deprived myself of enjoying food, even thought I am not enjoying food like I did three years ago. With all this, I got a subscription to Bon Appetit. So the December issue had this cake on it and did it look scrumptious. Whew! It was a four-layer Devil’s Food Cake with Peppermint Frosting. I took pictures of the whole process.
Also at Thanksgiving, Mom made the awesome loaded potato casserole and some blueberry stuff. Those are must haves for Christmas dinner. Nathan smoked a turkey…awesomeness there. Looks like I’m tasked to smoke one for Christmas, so wish me luck, I may need to buy two of them just in case!
So let me note and critic some other stuff I’ve had. It was a roasted tomato soup. It was really good and tasty, but a little bit on the spicy side…Ok I do like some spicy stuff, but I dunno about this soup being THAT spicy. HA! Someone had a heavy hand on the cracked red pepper, ahem! Wonder who that could be. Its all good, still had really good flavor.
So in all that, I must throw in my two cents about the Little Building Caf