This weekend Andrew cooked up a storm of deliciousness from a few recipes from this month's issue of Gourmet magazine. Flank steak sandwiches and a candied fennel cake. Wow, they were both so good--get down good, as my sister would say. Andrew's definitely the chef of the family, whereas I'm the sous chef and sometimes prep cook. This weekend, though, I didn't do anything but eat the food. I kept offering to help, asking what I could do, but he was flying solo in the kitchen. No co-pilot needed, not even for clean-up (lucky me). I cook too, but not as often or as well. He also makes more time-consuming and adventurous dishes than I would even consider. Once, he made a spare rib dish that took three days and required cleaning the whole kitchen about 5 times. These two recipes weren't as involved and they were both great, especially the fennel cake. YUM. It was so hard not to gobble the whole thing down. I had to save a piece for
Caroline, who is a great cook and often makes amazing dishes from Gourmet magazine recipes. She said she was going to make this one too.
I'm more likely to bake something. The Gourmet magazine cover reminded me that I haven't blogged about our picnic last weekend when we went to the park with friends. I made strawberry shortcake with heart shaped shortcakes. As I was making the biscuits, I thought of
Alicia's heart shaped biscuits
on her chicken pot pie (and her heart shaped pancakes, and her heart shaped waffles), which I can't find on her blog right now, but they're there somewhere, looking cute. Mine were cute too.
Lately I seem to be drawn to green, yellow and peachy-orange colors. I recently found some really pretty vintage clothes, including two great 50s dresses, the sweater below, and some cute children's clothes as well. As I was measuring them to list them in my etsy shop, I looked up and saw Stella next to the tulips and thought how pretty she looked there with the tulips, and how pretty she and the tulips looked next to the clothes I was listing. Then I noticed how many other green, yellow, and orangish things were around me in our apartment. I'm always drawn to red and green colors, but shades of yellow and orange, including peachy-salmon colors, seem to be taking over around here.
