Sunday, September 30, 2007
Food of summer
I thought I had a few more pictures of food from this summer (just remembered they're on a card I haven't downloaded yet...) but had some pretty rocking festitivies on the food note. Kicked off the summer with Margaret & Hagen's wedding. I made the cake. It ended up being champagne cake with champagne frosting. So, we did it up right. On a grosser note. I wanted to keep the icing from melting (since it was summer) between the wedding reception and the ceremony. So, on the drive in to town I rolled down all the windows. Total minus... kicked up all the dog hair in the car. But, people seemed to eat them anyway.
Anyway, we had an awesome summer of food. Jessie and I love us some Martha Steward cooking magazine. Here's our take on a grilled pizza thing from this summer. Soooo tasty with mozzarella and everything:
From the first trip up the Steese this summer with Rob & Luke, our cooking pan after the bacon and stuff was out of it:
Finally, my personal favorite.... desserts. Early in the summer we scored wild strawberries and rhubarb from the farmers market. Instead of doing a shortcake number went with shortbread instead. Here's a ginger shortbread I whipped up. Next time you make shortbread I hope you'll think about adding the ginger. It was pretty darned awesome.
So, couldn't just leave it at shortbread. Made a fruit syrup from the rhubarb and strawberries. Dumped that on top and sealed the deal with vanilla ice cream. Pretty tasty!
After I get my camera back from Anna I'll put more pictures up from later in sumer at the IARC picnic. For the picnic I made peanut butter pie but poured a dark chocolate layer on top of the graham cracker crust. That was super awesome. Then, variation on the shortbread theme, made a short bread in a 9x11 pan and on top made a key lime creme brulee filling. That was just so crazy good you wouldn't believe. Nice and tart. Then, for my birthday Jessie made the Cherry family toothpaste cake. An awesome peppermint cake.
Anyway, we had an awesome summer of food. Jessie and I love us some Martha Steward cooking magazine. Here's our take on a grilled pizza thing from this summer. Soooo tasty with mozzarella and everything:
From the first trip up the Steese this summer with Rob & Luke, our cooking pan after the bacon and stuff was out of it:
Finally, my personal favorite.... desserts. Early in the summer we scored wild strawberries and rhubarb from the farmers market. Instead of doing a shortcake number went with shortbread instead. Here's a ginger shortbread I whipped up. Next time you make shortbread I hope you'll think about adding the ginger. It was pretty darned awesome.
So, couldn't just leave it at shortbread. Made a fruit syrup from the rhubarb and strawberries. Dumped that on top and sealed the deal with vanilla ice cream. Pretty tasty!
After I get my camera back from Anna I'll put more pictures up from later in sumer at the IARC picnic. For the picnic I made peanut butter pie but poured a dark chocolate layer on top of the graham cracker crust. That was super awesome. Then, variation on the shortbread theme, made a short bread in a 9x11 pan and on top made a key lime creme brulee filling. That was just so crazy good you wouldn't believe. Nice and tart. Then, for my birthday Jessie made the Cherry family toothpaste cake. An awesome peppermint cake.
