Februrary Postmortum

Everything keeps getting busier and busier.  Just want to get everything down so I can make comments later.

Made dinner for friends one last time before we have the baby - went sort of Asian.  I don't think I could make traditional or authentic Asian food, but when considering how to handle the root vegetables available right now, I thought about the ingredients and flavors I really like.  Plus - Korea really has a climate close to ours, and we can get pretty good Korean ingredients in our neighbor hood so it just kind of made sense.

Weekend Evaluation: Hear that Funny Sound? It's My Hooves!

When Gretchen bought me this t-shirt for my birthday a few years back I don't think she expected me to actually cook all of the parts that are delicious.

Weekend Wrap-Up (May 22-23)

Pig Trotter Terrine

This weekend was a quiet food-weekend in our house. It was almost disastrous on a major level- our oven stopped working on Sunday. Tom was braising a pig foot in the oven, when it suddenly shut off and the digital display went black. I expected a melt-down of epic proportions, but Tom shocked me and didn't seem to mind too much. The burners on the stove still worked, so maybe that helped ease the situation. Tom had been planning to bake bread, but instead had to turn the dough into English muffins, since they're cooked on a griddle. I guess when life hands you a broken oven, you turn it into English muffins.

(Note: we were able to get the oven working several hours later. All we had to do was unplug it and plug it back in, and it worked! It's amazing how many things can be fixed by unplugging it, pulling a battery, or just whacking it really hard.)