Brunch for 8:
I'm making roasted rosemary potato, bacon & cheddar frittata
Asparagus with buerre blanc
Sausage patties (Mom's request)
Fresh Berries with gently whipped cream
Sister, the baker is making:
Raspberry Scones
Mini Cream Puffs
with Prosecco and OJ to wash it all down
At our family baby showers, the tradition is to make name tags with leetle teeny diapers on them. At the end of the shower, the guest with the dirty diaper (a dab of grainy mustard) gets a door prize.
After they came back from Turkey, my mom started serving Turkish breakfast every now and then: Good greek yogurt and honey, maybe some jam; Sliced tomatoes and cucumbers; sliced cheese (greek cheese if she can find it), olives, bread. Definitely not american, but really delicious in the summer.
Zingermans in Ann Arbor has some delicious things grouped in theme baskets, or you could put your own selection together. www.zingermans.com
We prefer charcoal - I offered to get hubster a gas grill, but he said he'd rather stick with gas. Fine by me. In fact, my mom, a die-hard gas grill maven bought a small Weber Smokey Joe (little kettle grill) just to cook steaks after she tasted ours and realized what she was missing.
I also love this stuff for easy (lazy) weeknight cooking. Not as good as fresh, but better way better than garlic powder and even the pre-minced in water stuff.
For cilantro, basil and garlic, Trader Joe's (by me, in the midwest anyhow), sells little frozen cubes, which while not as good as fresh, are definitely better than dried. You could recreate those by chopping freezing your excess herbs in a spare ice cube tray. Note that you will NOT want to make ice cubes from that tray after you've frozen garlic.
You can also do this with onions, home-roasted red peppers, oven roasted tomatoes and tomato paste.
Sorry, I've got no name ideas for you, (and how could I possibly compete with what has already been suggested?) but one thing I'm always curious about is what cuts have multiple names. Very confusing if you shop at different stores.
Another Chicagoan chiming in with a resounding Pop (not the sound).
Hello, I'm sarajane, first name is Sara, middle name Jane. Grew up in the farthest Chicago suburb (though some would say it was the beginning of farmland). Married my high school sweetheart and moved to a closer in suburb. By day I'm an office manager in the scintillating world of industrial automation, by night, I'm a mixed media artist. I love to cook, having inherited that love and some skill from a German grandmother, a Welsh-Canadian grandmother (who was never afraid to try cooking something new and passed along her love of hoarding recipes) and my mother, who was also a great, fearless cook. I cook mostly from scratch, and one of the best compliments I ever got was from a friend who lived with us for a while: "You don't have any food in the house - only ingredients!" SE is a fabulous trove of information for the food-obsessed - sometimes serious, sometimes trivial, often very useful, but always entertaining and informative.
My mom is my hero so it has to be special... I'm making dinner. The menu: mediterranean meze platter; grilled wild halibut cheeks with preserved lemon, parsley and mint; sauteed baby artichoke salad with oven roasted tomatoes and pecorino romano; homemade rosemary flatbreads; and for dessert- grilled peaches drizzled with rosewater syrup over greek yogurt. Plus some lovely bottles of wine... I hope she'll like it!
I'm Rosezilla (named for my three year old daughter and the giant lizard thing that stomped Tokyo...it's what I call her when she's being...how you say...willful). My real handle is Mandy. I live in Santa Barbara County again after growing up here, but lived for 11 years in western Sonoma County...home of fabulous food and wines. It spoiled me rotten, to become an adult surrounded by all of that luscious produce and foodie opportunity. I managed a microbrewery's kitchen for 6 years, and have SERIOUS opinions about ales, should anyone care for them. Now I'm a home cook primarily, although I do a little catering here and there. My daughter's favorite foods are salmon and broccoli, so I feel as though I've triumphed a bit over the three-year-old beige-food diet. We do, however, eat at McDonald's every Friday after school...it's our little Happy Meal indulgence...and those tiny cheeseburgers are SOOO good. I live with and cook for my mother, as well. I am dating a high school band director, who has actually LOST weight being with me, as he's eating more asparagus and less fast food. I think that size 14 should be the new size 6. I am curvy, healthy, happy and active...and think that excellent foods should be part of everyone's diet. I am active in the "S'Cool Food" movement here, which tries to bring local and sustainable healthy food into school cafeterias. And I love, love, love this website.
ok guys.....here it is....www.mattthebutcher.com ......all thats on it right now is a littl about me.....more to come....lol
ok guys....went to get started on my blog and found another blog called "The Butcher Blog"......so i think "A Butchers Blog" needs to be changed....hmmmmmm......lemmee read all your posts an see what i can come up with....thanks again for all your help !!!
Matt the cat in the pork fat hat
tastes like chicken
omnivore whore
max the butcher (alice's boyfriend from the brady bunch)
i want to thank everyone that posted to this thread.....i got a lotta laffs at some of the names on here.......whenever i get my blog goin you guys will be the first to know........i gotta admit tho....i'm way nervous about startin it coz i dont wanna let no one down here....lol....thanks again guys !!!!
Just a quick geek moment for preserving spinach and basil and like leaves:
Pop them into the plastic bag, blow air in, and seal it while it's puffed up.
The herbs survive better in a CO2 environment.
Also, never store apples with the rest of your fruit..... :p
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