Sunday Guilty Pleasure: Apricot & Almond Tart
Gooey, sweet, flaky, and delicious
Impressional
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Thanksgiving in the Woods
Drive Down from Boston to Florida. Two sleepy heads did not help drive.
Soon to be Stuffing. My favorite side dish.
Alyza
Turkey in a Beer Keg = 3 hour cook time
Miniature Wolverine Bite
Target Practice
Tom Turkey
Local Cows and Donkey ringing in the holiday
Warmth
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Kitchen Nightmares
Funny that it should happen on Halloween. Last night, our perfect cooking streak came to a disastrous end. My night at the helm and I totally bomb it. I should have known there was something wrong in the air when neither David nor I could decide on even the genre of food we wanted for dinner. We were perhaps not hungry at all but compelled to eat out of a nightly habit. Regardless, I thought it would be delightful to cook my favorite restaurant dish, Pad Thai. In the back of my mind, I thought, if this works and I become a master Pad Thai chef then we will never have to eat out for my Asian noodles again.
It started out so promising. I sauteed the bite sized chicken in a skillet with some peanut oil, salt, and pepper. Placing it aside, I cooked up three scrambled eggs and added it to my chicken. Next, came the sautéing of the of the shrimp with garlic. Finally, I sauteed the scallions and bean sprouts. This mixture all together in a bowl looked like the makings of a delicious Pad Thai. I cooked and drained the noodles and then fried them in a skillet with fish sauce, tamarind paste, and sugar as the recipe called for. The house smelled delicious and I had not made any unintended mess as is my usual custom in the kitchen.
Finally, plating my noodles it was time to taste it with David. I was giddy with delight imagining how delicious and accurate it would taste. I spun some noodles onto my fork, stabbed a chicken piece and took my first bite. It was disgusting! That's right, it was practically inedible. The dish smelled fine but it tasted sour, spongy, and just plain unappetizing. What a major disappointment! We ended up tossing out about half of the dish in the trash which was so tragic. But, I just could not force myself or David to eat that dish. Instead, we headed over to Whole Foods and bought a carton of Rocky Road ice cream. It was Halloween after all so why not permit ourselves the treat! At least our nightmare had a sweet end...
It started out so promising. I sauteed the bite sized chicken in a skillet with some peanut oil, salt, and pepper. Placing it aside, I cooked up three scrambled eggs and added it to my chicken. Next, came the sautéing of the of the shrimp with garlic. Finally, I sauteed the scallions and bean sprouts. This mixture all together in a bowl looked like the makings of a delicious Pad Thai. I cooked and drained the noodles and then fried them in a skillet with fish sauce, tamarind paste, and sugar as the recipe called for. The house smelled delicious and I had not made any unintended mess as is my usual custom in the kitchen.
Finally, plating my noodles it was time to taste it with David. I was giddy with delight imagining how delicious and accurate it would taste. I spun some noodles onto my fork, stabbed a chicken piece and took my first bite. It was disgusting! That's right, it was practically inedible. The dish smelled fine but it tasted sour, spongy, and just plain unappetizing. What a major disappointment! We ended up tossing out about half of the dish in the trash which was so tragic. But, I just could not force myself or David to eat that dish. Instead, we headed over to Whole Foods and bought a carton of Rocky Road ice cream. It was Halloween after all so why not permit ourselves the treat! At least our nightmare had a sweet end...
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