Marie and I made this meal and a salad back in February. The meal took a few hours to prepare, but turned out incredible. The salad was a spinach and blue cheese salad with sliced apples and spiced caramelized pecans. The main dish and the salad combined to be one of the best meals I’ve ever eaten.
I made this meal for dinner for Marie and myself last week. It takes a couple of hours to prepare and the ingredients include:
haricots verts, fresh thyme, onion, roasted red/yellow peppers, fingerling potatoes, red/yellow pear tomatoes, garlic, kalamata olives, anchovies, spinach leaves, and seared Ahi tuna filets.
I made a white bean soup last week from scratch. I had been saving chicken bones and used them to create a chicken stock the night before preparing the soup. The stock was made up of pretty standard ingredients: chicken bones, carrots, onions, celery, leeks, thyme, parsley, bay leaf, and white peppercorns. Here is a picture:
I soaked the beans overnight. To get the soup started, I cooked some smoked bacon in my olive oil for a few minutes – just long enough to transfer the flavor. I then added the following to the olive oil (sans bacon): onions, carrots, celery, garlic, tomato paste, chopped tomato, and the beans. I threw in some fresh basil, parsley, thyme, and rosemary. Finally, some sherry wine vinegar, sugar, salt, and pepper.
Between the preparation of the stock, the soaking of the beans, and the cooking of the soup, the process is a long one – but totally worth it. The soup was incredible and I had meals for several days. I definitely recommend making your own chicken stock from scratch.
Was craving some bar-food tonight and made some homemade beer-battered onion rings along with a homemade buttermilk ranch dipping sauce. It all worked out pretty great. Had the oil temperature a little high at first, but after a few scorched rings, I fixed the problem. I’ll definitely make these again.
Went with a recipe out of the Spanish Cookbook again tonight. I made lamb with lemon and garlic (with a homemade stock as well). For a side, I had asparagus with lemon mayonnaise. The asparagus and sauce were outstanding; the lamb was good but not life changing.
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