squeee! i would never stop smooching that pooch’s face!
and the papardelle looks pretty good too. 
2 Likes
Thank you 
Yes, Bulgari is a real sweetheart.
2 Likes
“omg omg omg i’m on my way.”
We should meet half way.
2 Likes
Dessert before dinner. I got home to my BF working on brioche bread pudding. The first picture is before the cognac sauce was poured over.
Dinner itself was sausage and peppers, with some Trader Joe’s fermented Calabrian chili paste stirred in.
21 Likes
swooning! love bread pudding - and brioche bread pudding!
1 Like
Puttered in the kitchen most of the afternoon.
Harvested out first kale this morning, for our dinner salad. Looked up the kale salad from an LA restaurant that showed me how delicious they can be. Decided to make some GF roasted breadcrumbs and caramelized pumpkin seeds for toppings. At the end of the day, forgot to take a pic of the finished salad - but it was absolutely delicious.
I loved the NYT bean recipe so much the other day I decided to repeat it with the chickpeas I had soaking. Well, I forgot how long dried chickpeas can take, even in a pressure cooker. Decided the recipe is better with just white beans. Had the realization that chickpeas from dried are a completely different food compared to canned - so incredibly delicious.
Oh, two giant heads of cabbage arrived after two months of cabbage eusiveness. I chopped half of one today. First down was a made-up version of something my mom makes - dumplings of a sort, steamed and then pan-fried. I have sometimes made dense duds, but today was a really good version. After steaming, spices are tempered and the dumplings are sautéed with the tempering. Yummy.
18 Likes
I’ve never made ma po tofu from scratch - yours look delicious. Any special recipe you use? I just got 3 pounds and green beans and am going to copy yours. Thx.
2 Likes
Second attempt at buffalo mushroom pizza turned out much better than my first try last month.
Shout out to @escaped, who suggested adding the buffalo sauce at the end of cooking. I drizzled sauce on top after I added mozzarella and blue cheeses, so the cheese could melt in the final few minutes.
The summery weather also called for using the (propane) grill, which yields a more pizza-oven-like result than the indoor oven.
Chive blossoms are out so we crumbled a few on top for a hint of oniony-ness.
15 Likes
So glad it worked! I’m trapped in an apartment, so living vicariously through you! Looks fantastic
3 Likes
The pizza would be very nice cooked indoors as well. Which is most of the year here in Massachusetts.
Adding the sauce at the end turned out to be the key, as you suggested. The flavor was too muted otherwise.
2 Likes
Thank you! But I didn’t make it from scratch, I used a pre-made, albeit homemade, sichuan chili crisp instead of making the chili oil myself. I have done that in the past, but this one was better. Here’s the recipe I followed:
But the chili oil isn’t at all involved to make. I lived the soft tofu in this.
3 Likes
So glad to hear! I’ve done my time in Newton, chestnut hill, etc, so I definitely get it. You’ve inspired me to try a skillet pizza, here goes!
3 Likes
Whoa, small world. I lived in Brookline for a time years ago.
A friend mentioned skillet pizza to me last week—first time I heard of it. I’d be interested to hear what you think when you’ve made yours.
3 Likes
Eating local
A big pot of vegetable soup was put on the stove today. Homemade chicken stock plus the bounty of garden items from local farms. Kale, carrots, onions and potatoes
5 Likes
What? YOU apologized? A hostile act of premeditation against you in your own home? Perpetrated by your husband & sibling in cahoots? And kids laughing? Oh no no no… I’d behave so crazy they’d be afraid to go to sleep at night… Forever. But that’s just me. 
.
3 Likes
Looks great. Is that Cut Spaghetti?
Hilarious. You did a good job on those breasts too. 
2 Likes
I’m sorry, I think I’ve asked before, but do you know the name of that wine aerator? Is it the soireehome?
Nonono
I am stuck at my sibling’s house (3 months today).
My humor and acknowledgment ot potential over-reaction on my part was to provide a balance to the conversation before concluding it.
Because I am in their house. And because the children were present (shield for sibling - that’s why discussion was brought up in their presence 
) and I thought it would make for a graceful end to the episode.
(Sibling’s spouse would have continued the “indignant” reaction angle at my aspersion of deliberate behavior on “someone’s” part had I not ended the discussion once sibling & I were both laughing, because harmony between siblings is not the preferred state of being for that individual.)
9 Likes
