Well, bbq chicken pizza with canadian bacon and red onion, red pepper, and mushrooms cooked in olive oil and butter.
I used a wheat crust from trader joes this time and it seemed to cook fine in the oven. I put the sheet on the lowest rack and that may be the trick.
I was even responsible and saved half. :)
I had 8 leftover yolks from making the merengues and decided to try a recipe for Almond Chocolate Creme Brulee. While I was shopping for the ingredients I decided to get some 'special dark' cocoa.
It is delicious! I was afraid it wouldn't set well or I hadn't gotten it to the right temperature, but I think its perfect. Smooth and silky and so rich with almond and chocolate.
Definitely a recipe to keep in mind to impress.
This recipe for pecan merengue cookies worked out really well for me, mostly because of the oven instructions, I think. I tried 2 other cooking methods listed in other recipes I tried and they just didn't work out. I'll cook all merengues this way now.
These are from the store and weren't very good. Clearly I'll have to make my own biscuits.
I bought a Trader Joes pizza dough and decided to top it with red onion, red pepper, mushrooms, canadian bacon, and chicken. I cooked the vegetables in a pot so the mushrooms would give up their water and soften the onion and pepper.
It turned out delicious but my crust wasn't completely cooked or maybe it still picked up liquid from the vegetables. I think my oven wasn't hot enough since it took turning the temp up and leaving it in for another 8 mins. I probably need an oven thermometer.
I went to Acadiana last night with friends for a kind of supper club and had a delicious meal of grilled romaine salad with macerated figs and pumpkin seeds and the main entree was veal with grits and wild mushroom gravy. It was incredibly tasty. For dessert I had a pecan tart with chocolate ice cream. That was also fantastic but I forgot to take a picture.
I had planned on making stew in my crockpot and then heading to chinatown to shop for a few kitchen things and then make cookies later. Well, my plans suddenly changed when the crockpot slipped out of my hands and hit the enamel sink. I think it only fell 4-5 inches but that was enough to shatter it into a dozen pieces.
Now that I suddenly found myself sans crockpot I decided to still go through with the day and just make stew in my soup pot after I got home.
I did my shopping and returned home and started using my new pots and pans for the first time, it was exciting! I lightly caramelized a vidalia onion with a leftover piece of red onion and green squash in one pan while I brought to a boil the lentils, quinoa, carrot, potatoes, and butternut squash. After adding the onions to the soup pot I took some of its liquid into the previous pan and deglazed it, then added that to the soup pot as well.
After that was done and simmering I decided to start on the oatmeal cookies. I used the recipe from the back of my Safeway quick oats and put pecans and chocolate chips into them.
Both turned out great and I'm thrilled.
Very nice haircut by Kevin at Hannah Barber in Bethesda, MD. They are located on Norfolk Ave and Del Ray.
I was going to go to Original Pancake House but it was closed. I remembered that Tastee Diner was down the street and found them open.
I'm very impressed with my apt mgmt company, the walkway and sidewalk is clear and so is the back patio. There are 3+ feet of snow everywhere.
