I can’t help it. Perfectly grilled leg of lamb. Roasted butternut squash risotto. Steamed broccoli. A lovely cab. Monte did all the work. And it was delicious. 
Category: Food & Drink
Good for what ails you.
I brought a head cold back with me from Seattle. For dinner tonight Monte suggested chicken soup, and it was just the ticket! We already had 1 1/2 quarts of homemade chicken broth in the fridge. And a grilled chicken breast leftover from last night. I just had to add a cup each of chopped onion, celery & carrots; a sprinkle of salt & pepper. At the end I threw in a few ounces of pasta. And voila!
Delicious! I feel better already.
Be happy.
Today is the International Day of Happiness. Get out there and make a happy moment. 🙂 Here are a few happy moments from my day.
Friday! Nuff said.
It’s raining over the lake.
The vernal equinox will occur at 5:45 PM in Austin today.
Julie is coming back to Austin tonight for a visit. It’ll be nice to catch up with her at dinner.
Aaaaaand we’re going to make pizza!
A bit o the green.
Happy St. Paddy’s Day!
We popped in to our local pub to throw back a Guinness and a Harp (or two).
Slainte!
Sweets for my sweetie.
Happy birthday!
Happy Pi Day!
We headed to the lake today. A lovely sail and then anchored out with Kurt & Kevin on Dancer.
Sunset:
Dessert (pie, get it?):
Bringing back the bread machine.
We received an awesome Breadman Ultimate breadmaker for a wedding gift way back when. And I used it for several years but stopped for some reason. I was probably traveling a lot at the time.
A couple weeks ago I was cleaning out the pantry, and rediscovered it. I have since stocked up on wheat flour, gluten and other ingredients and am back in the bread making groove. The 1.5 lb loaves are perfect for the two of us for several days.
The light whole wheat bread loaf is delicious.
This one’s hot out of the machine:
And this is a link to 100+ page PDF for the bread machine with many recipes.
Beef burgundy.
Today winter seems to have relaxed its grip. Temps were in the 50s for most of the day. Monte and I headed outside and trimmed, pruned, tilled and sowed. A great day.
I’ve dug out my crock pot recently and have been making recipes from way back when. Tonight I made Beef Burgandy. And Monte made homemade noodles to go with. Oh my. Delicious!
Beef burgundy ala crockpot:
– 2-lb beef round steak, cut in 3/4″ cubes
– 1/4 c flour
– 1/2 tsp salt
– 3 Tbsp butter
– 2 c red wine, Bordeaux or burgandy
– 1 c beef broth
– 1 c chopped onion
– 6 oz white mushrooms, rinsed dried & quartered
– 2 bay leaves
– 2 cloves garlic, minced
– 1/4 tsp ground black pepper
Coat beef with flour and salt mixture. Melt butter in skillet. Add beef and brown on all sides. Transfer browned meat to crock pot. Deglaze hot skillet with a little bit of wine and put those tasty bits in the crockpot, too. Combine all other ingredients in crock pot and stir.
Cover. Cook on high for 2 hours, then reduce to low for another 2 -3 hours, until meat is tender.
Before serving, remove 1 c of liquid, heat over medium on stove; bring to a low boil. Wisk in 1 Tbsp cornstarch dissolved in 2 Tbsp cold water, until thickened. Pour back into crockpot and stir.
Remove bay leaves. Serve over noodles.
Mmmmmmmmm. Yum. Happy NPD!
Today is National Pizza Day!!! We did our part – sharing a delicious Tuscan Truffle and a bottle of red at Brick Oven (the best in our book). Heaven on a Monday.
How sweet it is.
It’s a beautiful Saturday. Temps in the high 60s for a change. We are anchoring out in our cove.
We have the place to ourselves.
Tutti a tavola e mangiare!
And for dessert: HOT BUTTERED RUM!
Cheers!
We tried Emeril’s recipe and it was just right!
First Sunday!
The Texas state history museum offers free admission to all exhibits the first Sunday of every month. Today we headed downtown and met Laura to see 2 new exhibits: Fly Girls of WWII, and the 300+ year old shipwreck of La Belle. Both worth the trip.
Afterwards, we hit happy hour at Clark’s. Half-price off all bottles of wine! Oh and the food is good, too. 🙂
A very nice Sunday.
Happy Birthday!
Happy birthday, leetle seester!
Literary inspiration.
I recently read Ernest Hemingway’s Islands in the Stream. I enjoyed it – set in the Caribbean, full of sea and salt and many an alcoholic beverage.
One of the favorite drinks of the main character in the book, Thomas Hudson, was a gin drink with coconut water, lime juice and bitters. It sounded interesting enough to me to concoct one and try it. And it was pretty good! We call it a “Tom Hudson.” There wasn’t a recipe in the novel, so the individual quantities are up to the bartender’s discretion. But here’s how I like them:
Tom Hudson
– 2 oz gin
– 4 oz coconut water
– juice of 1 lime
– a few (or many) drops of bitters
– serve on the rocks
Cheers, Ernest!
Yay, us!
We took a roadtrip over the weekend to celebrate our anniversary. I’ll skip the narrative and just let some pictures tell the story.
Sheila365 