Weekend Evaluation: 50% More Ingredients

It was another slow weekend from a cooking standpoint.  We ate at a friend's house on Saturday, where I was pretty interested to see the recent chicken pot pie recipe from Cook's Illustrated being made.  I have to say the crumble top was really good - a smart recipe, that was well executed.

Gretchen brought cake to dinner, so she was in the kitchen a bit too. The Hazelnut cake she made has been really successful both times she's made it.  My cooking this week - a little less successful.  I've been falling into a trap of too many things on the plate; and my rut of having everything stacked lately has been another rut, that's caused bad results.

Weekend Evaluation: Waiting for the Other Hoof to Drop

It was a quiet week cooking wise.  We had a project on our hands around the house - painting the bathroom- so I didn't want to be worrying about cooking at the same time.  Plus we went out to dinner on Sunday since it was nice out, part of our attempt to get out while we can.

Weekend Evaluation: 0 for 3

Everything from Buffalo were losers this weekend - the Bills, the Sabres, my wings.  

We haven't even gotten to Knick season and I'm sick of losing; maybe I can thank the Mets for that. At least the New York City doesn't really have a signature food I can screw up - maybe a knish? pizza?  I've definitely screwed up pizza before...

Weekend Evaluation - At least the Bills weren't the only thing that got smoked this Sunday.

This weekend the Buffalo Bills reminded me of how I started trying to cook more intricate foods.  When I first moved to New York, I used to go watch Bills games at a bar, or a friends house, but as the years of unwatchable, losing football dragged on, I started questioning why I was spending Sunday afternoons going out of my way to pay attention.

I finally decided I would just listen to games while I worked on some other projects; that turned into making dinner more and more labor intensive. This week the game was on TV here - but true to form, the Bills never showed up, so by the third quarter I was doing something else.

On a side note- why are Buffalo fans so outraged by this year's team - did they do anything to make you think they'd be any better than the past 10 years?

Went to the smoker two weeks in a row, it just worked out that way.