Food, glorious food
Yesterday I received the Cafe Paradiso cookbook I had ordered shortly after arriving back in the states. Creative Nickname, his sister, brother and I went there while in Cork. It was fantastic. The parsnip mash was so yummy I needed to reproduce it exactly.
All the recipes in this book are amazing sounding. They do have a couple of the dishes that we had there in the book and so much more. I can’t wait to make the Pumpkin gnocchi with spinach in a roasted garlic cream. How good does that sound?
The rat’s cage should arrive today. I am looking forward to putting the boys in their new home. I am sure they will love all the space.
I am thinking of making some pasta today. I only started making it by hand after we got the KitchenAid mixer and pasta attachment. We had no idea how good fresh pasta tasted. Now we can’t go back. We like to toss it with some olive oil, garlic, red pepper flakes and parsley. I think I have some old pictures…
Making the pasta:
The olive oil cooking the diced garlic and the chopped parsley (that and the red pepper flakes go in right before removing from the heat):
Tofurkey kielbasa. This stuff is amazing tasting and it’s vegan!
The finished product (tossed the pasta in the olive oil mixture):
I make egg pasta, though I have made it with Ener-G egg replacer for CN’s sister. The pasta was ok, a little more slimy than I am used to, but not bad.
I’m going to go knit some on the Alphabet Blanket. Maybe next post I’ll have enough done for a picture.