foodiefanatics

This has been a busy couple of weeks.  I've made spicy carrots with parsley and cilantro from food and wine (march, 2005) with my CSA veggies. I actually added broccoli and it was really tasty. I'll make that again. We served it both warm and cold and liked it better cold. 
I made a pea shoot stir fry which was kind of just like green things with garlic. I still haven't found a pea shoot recipe I really like.
Traditional hashbrowns "21" club from gourmet Nov. 1995. These were very yummy. You boil potatoes then fry them with onions, butter and oil. 
German Apple Pancake from Cooks Illustrated (Jan/Feb 2003) which actually wasn't very good. It didn't puff but instead was kind of like a firm custard (sort of). Didn't have a lot of flavor.
Pasta with vodka and cream.  The kids liked this but I found it a bit too mild.  Plus my Parmesan cheese didn't really melt which was strange. 
I made my own Caesar dressing (well, I don't think it's really Caesar) but it works and it uses what's in the fridge. I took mayo, dijon, worcestershire a bit of olive oil, garlic and bal vinegar and whipped it up.  It needed to be thinned with a bit of fresh lime (lemon would probably work too). Very flavorful and everyone loved it.

Doing a birthday brunch for my sister in law tomorrow.  This is quite the cooking weekend.  We are having greek yogurt with figs (using that fig tree again!) with honey (from a local purveyor made with thistle) and pine nuts. We had a similar yogurt dish at a restaurant in San Diego for Brunch (Cafe Chloe) We are doing grapefruit mimosas (with a bit of cranberry juice in them, Sunset May 08), puffy pancake with nutty banana butterscotch (Rachel Ray, I've made it now about 5 times and we love it), lamb sausage (from our farm, deck family farm), and wrinkled potatoes with spicy chile mojo (this is xeroxed from a cookbook but I don't know which cookbook!).  My daughter is making a boxed cake and I'm going to make some kind of Indian dessert as well but haven't decided what yet.