Thursday, August 28, 2008

A New Blog Addition!! Happy Eating!!

A new blog addition, introducing Happy Eating! David and I make some pretty awesome food together and we thought we would share with you all what we are up to in the kitchen. I also was a little envious about Ann (David's sister) and her new blog feature "Caturday" about her new cats, having no pets to blog about I will talk about yummy food instead.

Last Saturday David and I went to the farmers market and purchased some pretty cool stuff. For dinner Saturday night (photo above) we grilled a huge T-bone steak which we split, made smashed purple Peruvian potatoes with horseradish imported from Shawano. For the veg we cooked a French apple sausage in some olive oil and then tossed a ton of yellow swiss chard is the sausage. The bread is from Le Petit, and the wine is Elizabeth Spencer Cab.

In this months bon appetit magazine they gave Thomas Keller's fried chicken recipe form his restaurant ad hoc in napa. The restaurant was our favorite when we lived in napa last year, and we adored the fried chicken, so we just had to make some for ourselves. Sunday we had fried chicken with the left over purple potatoes and chard. Served with a delicious Big Sky IPA beer it was quite a meal.

In addition David has been a pickle making machine this past week! He has made bread and butters, harbin dills (a spicy dill pickle), spicy pickled carrots called firecrackers, and curry pickled cauliflower. The last two are refrigerator pickles so we are already enjoying the pickled carrots.

Hope all is well with everyone and happy eating this week!

love
Abby

2 comments:

Ann said...

Wow, what pretty potatoes! I think Mom and I picked up some blue potatoes at the farmer's market in GB once, but we never managed to eat them. Everything looks so tasty!
Love,
Ann

Barbara said...

I've never been brave enough to eat cooked leaves after the disgusting cooked spinach of my childhood. Grandma's looked like it was in cold gray dishwater. Uck. So how does chard taste? Pretty potatoes. Yummy looking steak.

Presents came today. Thanks for mine. I couldn't wait to open it. Very nice gift and card. I'm still laughing.

Love you guys!
Mom