Journal

2015 - Week 33 Cooking Results

BATs!  (including secret Arugula...shhh!)

What happens when you get first cuttings of arugula before it's available to others?  You shut up about and and thank the farmer that gave you the opportunity to have it.  There's nothing even close to that arugula.  Used some of my brother's multi-grain wheat (early form, Wild Yeast Bakery).  Bacon from Crooked Gap (The last of my Story City wood smoked, until he gets more).  Amazing is all I can say.  Super happy.

Spicy Merguez Sausage & butter roasted potatoes

Pretty nice, pretty spicy, combined well with the butter roasted potatoes.  Good things.

Mortadella and Cheese Panini (Modified)

So I didn't panini these, but I did grill them, even had one for Joseph, who happened to stop by after bread selling.  Good stuffs (though he didn't actually sit down to eat with us (a 20+ hour day does that to you).  Mortadella is one of my new favorite things.

Scrambled Eggs with Caramelized Onions and Chevre

simple, and the longest part about it was making the onions (though I didn't follow their suggested recipe).  Other then that I've made scrambled eggs with Chevre before.

Pizza with (home) Roasted Tomato Sauce

I forget that I need to a. adjust the weight of tomatoes down (from 1.5 pounds) and reduce the tomato paste.  The sauce gets a little thick and a little much.  When I use the 1.5 pounds of tomatoes from a can, I dump the juice, stab the tomatoes and squeeze out more juice, reducing the amount of liquid out, but certainly not as much as one would get as roasting and draining them after roasting.  So a thicker then normal sauce (probably would go good with Chicago style pizza), but the pizza was finished just right.

The sausage was not spicy Italian...due to mislabeling or whatever.  But it worked out ok.  Really good overall.