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coffee ice cream with hazelnuts
i really like ice cream. i really like hazelnuts. and…i really like coffee. actually, i love all three. when i was a kid living in vacaville, my mom would take us to baskin robbins weekly. every visit i would order jamocha almond fudge (which, apparently has been a staple at br since 59…yes, 1959), always in a cake cone. mmm, creamy coffee ice cream, fudge and crunchy-crunchy almonds. yum.
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not panna cotta, ice cream sandwiches and rocky votolato
i haven’t actually posted anything concerning food in a while…like since the 19th. it’s not that i haven’t been cooking, it’s that i have been cooking poorly. as i have mentioned before i do a lot of cooking on the weekends. well, this past weekend was a tough one. i wasn’t super busy or anything… on friday night i went out, to a bar that is, for a coworkers birthday. i never go out. hardly ever. and if i do it is almost always with my friend brooke. well, she figured that we hadn’t gone out since last may. over a year ago. we declared it was time. there is a bar in town called the red martini. they have open bar for the ladies (blech…hey ladies…) from 10-midnight. let me just say i’m a lush and i hate it. mostly.
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lemon balm sables
i have been eying these sables for a couple of weeks now. i set out the butter for them last weekend, but never got to it, put it back in the refrigerator and that was that. last saturday was a very busy day–i did much shopping and when i shop, i shop with an eye for sales. it takes all day. sunday we had dinner guests and i made blueberry frozen yogurt that never got posted because we devoured it before i could take any pictures. the work week leaves me with little to no motivation. i plan for my weekends and the ideal weekend for me is spent at home puttering around the house–cleaning, cooking, baking, snacking, reading, napping (ah, napping), and being as domestic as possible. some people aspire to climb the corporate ladder, i aspire to stay at home. i dream of aprons and kitchen appliances. let me just add that i am not some sort of backwards anti-feminist (and sorry if you are. really). i minored in women’s studies in college and i read feminist literature for leisure. essentially i believe in choices and opportunity. given many of both (though not all, we’re not there just yet kids…but that’s another blog for another time) i still choose domesticity.
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santa rosa plum and ginger sorbet
i know that i have posted about sorbet twice before, but its good okay? and easy to make, refreshing, light, mmmm… so what? i like sorbet. i bought some santa rosa plums last week and they were ripe and so juicy. we actually had to hunch forward when eating them out of hand to save the juices from running down our shirts. this, to sean and i, is not a bad thing when eating fresh fruit. in my enthusiasm i bought about ten plums, which means we ate half and i made this sorbet with the rest.
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2 nights of grilled pizza
two consecutive nights that is. sunday night sean’s friend came over with his girlfriend for pizza and beers and weeds. they brought their border collie puppy, lina, over to play with luxe and jezebel, which is always fun. we ate and drank and were merry. the toppings: tomato, basil and fresh mozzarella–classic and tasty. monday night we repeated the pizza grilling (much to sean’s delight), except i drank iced tea, watched scrubs and had our pups for company. the toppings: tomato, spicy italian sausage, onions and fontina–so good.
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honey-apricot sesame chicken
this is probably one of sean’s favorite things to eat and i make it often. it is a psuedo-chinese sesame chicken that i adapted from a martha stewart recipe. i really like it as well, and it makes for a pretty quick meal. the sauce makes a nice glaze for the chicken and it it both sweet and spicy, and the apricot lends a nice flavor. it also makes for a nice reheated lunch the next day…if there is any leftover. plus, it can be made in one pan, which is always a plus as i tend to use a lot of dishes when i cook.
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Graham Cracker Crumb Muffins
boozey, soft and delicious
so, that vat of sangria i made for the fourth? we did not drink all two gallons. we drank all of it save for a cup and a half. yup. it’s true, nearly two gallons of sangria gone.
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happy 4th of july!
yesterday was a pretty fun and relaxing time laughing, drinking and eating with friends. we live in a second story unit in a complex of identical apartments. i like it well enough most of the time, i get to maintain my anonimity fairly well, but when the fourth of july rolls around i feel twinges of nostalgia for fourth of july’s spent with my family in eureka, nevada. many of my family members live there and the fourth of july is pure small-town-americana: egg tossing, 3-legged couples races, beer drinking, parading, float building, grilling, cowboys, and fireworks. all of the festivities are situated right on the main road…which happens to be an expanse of highway 50 that proclaims it is the “friendliest town on the loneliest road in america”. they literally shut down the highway for the greater part of the morning and early afternoon, travelers have to detour. seriously. i do not normally long for eureka, in fact i avoid visits there almost always. too small, too remote, and too rural…and i am too liberal, so i’ve been told. maybe next year.
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