...make me want to tear my hair out. Well, tear my hair out and drink wine...and maybe eat some cheese. Why don't I have cheese? Ugh.
Thursday, November 29, 2012
Episode 110- Some days...
...make me want to tear my hair out. Well, tear my hair out and drink wine...and maybe eat some cheese. Why don't I have cheese? Ugh.
Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Episode 109 - Punctually Festive
I am a big giant Christmas keener. I had originally intended to save the holiday decorating until after American Thanksgiving, but I had a few days off last week and I just couldn't wait anymore! Dawson came home from work to a fully Christma-fied house! Everything is red, gold and sparkly! Yes!
In any case, today's recipe is almost completely unrelated to Christmas, although when I asked Dawson how I could relate the two in some sort of quirky segue his response was "Well, the sauce was red and the crust was golden!". Good one Daws! Let's go with that!
Red and Gold Pizza Calzones
(serves 2)
2 personal-sized pizza doughs (we used this recipe)
1/2 cup of your favourite pizza sauce (we used this recipe)
12 thin slices of spicy salami
1/2 cup spicy marinated eggplant
3/4 cup shredded mozarella cheese
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Roll out your pizza dough as if you were just making 2 mini pizzas. Top the dough with sauce, salami, eggplant and cheese leaving about 1/2 inch ring of crust naked around the outside of each one. Next, carefully stretch and fold your topped dough into a half moon shape. Press the edges together, trying to keep as much of the filling inside the moon as possible. Seal your edges together by squishing them down with a fork. Don't skip this step - Dawson did and his calzone was more like a taco...a calzaco! Ok, now transfer the half moons onto a greased baking sheet, brush the tops with a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes, or until they're nice a golden. Now eat!
While you eat your delicious pizza-like creation, check out this picture of my Christmas-y home!
More Christmas-y photos to come...you know, in December when they're actually appropriate!
In any case, today's recipe is almost completely unrelated to Christmas, although when I asked Dawson how I could relate the two in some sort of quirky segue his response was "Well, the sauce was red and the crust was golden!". Good one Daws! Let's go with that!
Red and Gold Pizza Calzones
(serves 2)
2 personal-sized pizza doughs (we used this recipe)
1/2 cup of your favourite pizza sauce (we used this recipe)
12 thin slices of spicy salami
1/2 cup spicy marinated eggplant
3/4 cup shredded mozarella cheese
1 tbsp olive oil
salt and pepper, to taste
Preheat the oven to 400 F. Roll out your pizza dough as if you were just making 2 mini pizzas. Top the dough with sauce, salami, eggplant and cheese leaving about 1/2 inch ring of crust naked around the outside of each one. Next, carefully stretch and fold your topped dough into a half moon shape. Press the edges together, trying to keep as much of the filling inside the moon as possible. Seal your edges together by squishing them down with a fork. Don't skip this step - Dawson did and his calzone was more like a taco...a calzaco! Ok, now transfer the half moons onto a greased baking sheet, brush the tops with a little olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes, or until they're nice a golden. Now eat!
While you eat your delicious pizza-like creation, check out this picture of my Christmas-y home!
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| Ooo glittery reindeer! |
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
Episode 108 - Lonely Food
I've decided I suck at being alone. I find the house too quiet, the bed too big and everything too...empty! How I ever lived alone years ago I don't know. I guess Dawson has spoiled me... *sigh*
So, today is my last night alone in the house and I decided it was the perfect opportunity to curl up in some sweats around a delicious bowl of comfort food and, oh, boy, was this ever good!
Gnocchi Carbonara for 1
1-2 slices of bacon (depending on how indulgent you feel like being)
1/2 package Gnocchi (about 1.5 cups or so)
1 egg, separated
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
pepper, to taste
First, slice up your bacon and cook it up in a frying pan. While the bacon cooks, prepare your gnocchi according to the package directions. When the bacon and gnocchi are cooked, drain most of the bacon fat out of the pan and toss in your gnocchi and cheese. Now, add the egg white and quickly toss everything around while it cooks. It's gonna look really weird and kinda lumpy, but I promise it's going to work. Finally, put everything in a bowl, top with the egg yolk and stir to coat everything in yolk-y goodness. Season with pepper and you're ready to go! Be prepared - you may never want to eat anything else ever again!
Ohmigod, so good! Not even sort of healthy, but worth it. Also, I had Brussels sprouts with this, so I feel like that kinda balances everything out... plus...check out my sad, lonely face:
Don't I just look like I need a bowl of egg-y, bacon-y goodness? I think so.
So, today is my last night alone in the house and I decided it was the perfect opportunity to curl up in some sweats around a delicious bowl of comfort food and, oh, boy, was this ever good!
Gnocchi Carbonara for 1
1-2 slices of bacon (depending on how indulgent you feel like being)
1/2 package Gnocchi (about 1.5 cups or so)
1 egg, separated
2 tbsp Parmesan cheese
pepper, to taste
First, slice up your bacon and cook it up in a frying pan. While the bacon cooks, prepare your gnocchi according to the package directions. When the bacon and gnocchi are cooked, drain most of the bacon fat out of the pan and toss in your gnocchi and cheese. Now, add the egg white and quickly toss everything around while it cooks. It's gonna look really weird and kinda lumpy, but I promise it's going to work. Finally, put everything in a bowl, top with the egg yolk and stir to coat everything in yolk-y goodness. Season with pepper and you're ready to go! Be prepared - you may never want to eat anything else ever again!
Ohmigod, so good! Not even sort of healthy, but worth it. Also, I had Brussels sprouts with this, so I feel like that kinda balances everything out... plus...check out my sad, lonely face:
Don't I just look like I need a bowl of egg-y, bacon-y goodness? I think so.
Sunday, November 11, 2012
Episode 107 - The Incredible Disappearing Blogger!
Oh hi! Just thought I'd let you know I'm still alive! It seems that at this time every year I fall off the face of the internet for a few weeks. Maybe I should start making it a scheduled thing... in any case, I'm back! I've been busying myself with the usual things - work, Zumba, and nail polish (oh, so much nail polish! I should really start another blog just to tell you about all of the wonderful nail polish!). I've been cooking, but mostly just remaking a few of my favourite recipes that I've already posted on here (mostly soups) and then a few from some other really great places! The recipe I'm suggesting today actually comes from Food Network Magazine. If you like fall comfort foods you NEED to make this. Need. We've made it twice this fall already and I'd probably still make it again today.
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| Photo stolen from Food Network Magazine. Ours was less pretty...but every bit as delicious! Click the title above for the recipe! |
The only change we made was skipping the pancetta, just because we figured 5 slices of bacon was plenty or cured, fatty meat for us. It works out fine this way.
In other news, Dawson left today to go hunting (with his barber.?!..for reals!) until Wednesday so, it's just me and the animals until then. Hopefully nothing goes horribly wrong while he's gone. Have you ever noticed that there are just a few things around the house that are definite "man jobs"? These are the reasons women need men around...or sorry, not "need", but enjoy having men around. Don't send me any feminist hate mail, mmkay? Some good examples are cleaning the hair clogs out of the shower drain (I gag just thinking about this), taking out the garbage, killing spiders and anything having to do with plumbing. Because I'm spoiled vacuuming and scraping the frost off of car windows have also been designated "man jobs" in our house. Here's hoping the pets stop shedding until he gets home...and that my car will fit in the garage. I don't think "Sorry I can't come to work because my windows are frosty and there's no one here to scrape them" will fly as an excuse at work...
Now finally, this is completely unrelated but I'm putting it here anyway because it's just so darn pretty - my nails with some petty new polishes I got this week - A England's Tristam and St. George. Do you own these? You need to own these.
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| I'm a sucker for a gradient manicure! |
So that's all folks! Hopefully I'll be around more frequently from now on!
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Episode 106 - The Internet is Weird
One of the stats that gets collected about my blog is the key words people typed into their search engine to find me. Most of the results are pretty tame, like people searching for my name, or the word deliciosity or even for a specific recipe. Others though, are just plain weird. 'Fess up internet! Which one of you is the one that found my blog by searching for - '"kristy lalonde" police'? Why were you searching for such a thing?! Also, why on earth did Google then direct you here?! WTF?!
For the person who searched for "what is the plural of apocalypse", I'm sorry I wasn't more helpful. I hope you at least found me mildly entertaining.
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| Is this what you were looking for? |
For the person who searched for "what is the plural of apocalypse", I'm sorry I wasn't more helpful. I hope you at least found me mildly entertaining.
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