3.05.2009

i've got quite a backlog of food photos! so, straight to the point:

had 2 large leeks & some heavy cream leftover from valentine's day, so cooked up a creamy sauce loosely based on this recipe, added peas & tilapia, and put it all on top of some fusilli.
next day, combined the leftover leek cream sauce w/ground turkey & some more peas. so delish!all the green of the leeks & peas reminded me of this from my closet :)these days, i've been constantly craving hot chocolate! it all started when, in my food class, my teacher read aloud an excerpt that james beard had written on making the stuff from scratch. that night, i picked up a small bottle of skim milk from the campus convenience store (i'd run out) - cute pink cap matched my valentine's day carnations:
and mixed this up at home w/my 85% cocoa dark chocolate (a bit too intense for this, but it's all i had on hand), milk, honey & some vanilla. not bad.
my friend & old roommate j.r. was having a birthday bash for 40+ people, so i offered to bake her cake! i love frosting things ~ the square layer cake is devil's food mix from the box w/homemade cream cheese frosting
and the cupcakes are funfetti mix from the box w/homemade buttercream using the recipe from magnolia, where we had our cupcake date last summer when i was in nyc for the 4th :)
okay, so this isn't exactly cooking, but it's at least... semi-homemade :P these are my fave store-bought dumplings, pork & shrimp w/chinese celery. i think i make pretty good potstickers.
t. & i went to this italian place for dinner - got the penne alla vodka - sauce had smoked salmon, dill & touch of tomato. the huge bowl of pasta arrived covered in glossy salmon-colored sauce. (no photo.) had some leftovers & tried cooking them up w/white wine, chicken breast & peas but the sauce just separated & it all became oily instead. made dinner w/j.r. salmon cakes, spinach gratin & pesto pasta w/peas
topped some leftover spinach gratin w/pesto pasta & sauteed shrimpgenerous heap of mashed potatoes - boiled up a potato (the one i used a while back to weigh down the cookie sheet when i baked the whole lemon tart), used up the heavy cream from the spinach gratin & tossed in some scallions. topped w/chicken breast sauteed w/leftover frozen chopped spinach (used for the gratin earlier), a splash of cream & some chopped red onion. surprisingly good!
good old omelet w/generous handful of scallions

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