Okay, I'll admit it. I actually don't care for the pumpkin spice latte. It tastes more like coffee creamer than coffee, and the sugar gets me higher than the caffeine, but for a lot less time.
But I'll forgive autumn this one misstep because I love everything else about fall. Everything.
Here in Spokane, it is definitely fall. Mid 50's, crisp and sunny, beautiful leaves changing colors. The smell of homefires burning.
My only problem is that all I want to do is lay in front of the fire, eat soup, read a book, while smelling a yummy candle.
And this is not doing much for my ass.
Monday, October 24, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
a butcher, a baker, a candle stick maker
I feel very lucky to have a partner that pursues his passions with fervor. Barbeque? Got the smoker, got the cookbook, it has been perfected. Pasta making? Multiple cookbooks and six hours later and we have 42 servings of homemade pasta in the freezer. Going wine tasting? We've got the names, the map, and the printout of all wine prices before leaving. Okay, that one might have been me.
Latest obsession of Chris? Bread making. Ahh, bread making. Who doesn't love fresh baked bread? The smell, that first warm bite. Chris REALLY loves bread, and more than that the challenge of bread making.
Round 1: Late August. As all foodie challenges begin, Chris was watching a bread making episode of America's Test Kitchen. Crusty white bread. As kids who grew up on wheat bread, we love love love some farm style white bread. It was great. We proclaimed, "THE BEST BREAD EVER MADE!"
Round 2-3: Attempts to make the previously mentioned bread lighter. Still tasty, however not lighter. Following these two loaves I thought perhaps I was gluten intolerant. Then I realized I should probably include something besides bread in my diet. Cured.
Round 4: We discovered an amazing blog...foodwishes.blogspot.com wear the Chef provides video recipes. Viola! We made REAL, LIGHT, WONDERFUL Ciabatta bread! BEST BREAD EVER MADE! We decided to include some vegetables in our diet this time around with bruschetta from our garden tomatoes and basil.
And then I lost track. Since this time, we've had at least 6 loaves of bread including light farm style white bread that was not dense (Again-best bread ever made!), oatmeal bread, and more ciabatta bread. Today is his first attempt at multi-grain bread. I'm sure it will also be the best bread ever made.
Did I mention we had to buy the 50 lbs. bag of bread flour from Costco?
Latest obsession of Chris? Bread making. Ahh, bread making. Who doesn't love fresh baked bread? The smell, that first warm bite. Chris REALLY loves bread, and more than that the challenge of bread making.
Round 1: Late August. As all foodie challenges begin, Chris was watching a bread making episode of America's Test Kitchen. Crusty white bread. As kids who grew up on wheat bread, we love love love some farm style white bread. It was great. We proclaimed, "THE BEST BREAD EVER MADE!"
Round 2-3: Attempts to make the previously mentioned bread lighter. Still tasty, however not lighter. Following these two loaves I thought perhaps I was gluten intolerant. Then I realized I should probably include something besides bread in my diet. Cured.
Round 4: We discovered an amazing blog...foodwishes.blogspot.com wear the Chef provides video recipes. Viola! We made REAL, LIGHT, WONDERFUL Ciabatta bread! BEST BREAD EVER MADE! We decided to include some vegetables in our diet this time around with bruschetta from our garden tomatoes and basil.
And then I lost track. Since this time, we've had at least 6 loaves of bread including light farm style white bread that was not dense (Again-best bread ever made!), oatmeal bread, and more ciabatta bread. Today is his first attempt at multi-grain bread. I'm sure it will also be the best bread ever made.
Did I mention we had to buy the 50 lbs. bag of bread flour from Costco?
Monday, October 3, 2011
Mambo Italiano
I am lucky to have an occasional day off in the middle of the week. I would be really lucky if that meant I didn't have to work the weekend as well but whatever.
Quite often, Chris comes home from work to find me covered in flour, unshowered, and probably sweaty after cooking all day. Lucky guy, my husband.
Most recently, I decided to make lots of food, Italian food. Homemade gnocchi, butternut squash ravioli, and veal ravioli. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking, but it was fabulous.
And I promise I did take a shower that day, I just didn't look like it by the time Chris got home.
Quite often, Chris comes home from work to find me covered in flour, unshowered, and probably sweaty after cooking all day. Lucky guy, my husband.
Most recently, I decided to make lots of food, Italian food. Homemade gnocchi, butternut squash ravioli, and veal ravioli. I'm not sure what the hell I was thinking, but it was fabulous.
And I promise I did take a shower that day, I just didn't look like it by the time Chris got home.
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