This picture makes me realize that I don't know anything about photography. Anyway, here are my buns in the oven. They're done now but I haven't eaten them because they're for breakfast. I'm going to stay up all night waiting for Santa to get here, so I may as well make bread while I listen to mice scurry around the kitchen. If the bread is tasty maybe I'll put up the recipe in the morning.
For Thanksgiving, I am in charge of making this cake. I have made this cake before and it is always a super mega ultra hit. Maybe this year, in order to make it more bearable, I will outsource the peeling of the toasted hazelnuts to Ben "little fingers" BW.
Oh, the nickname game! Maybe I will play that game on the other blog this weekend after I remember who my family really is.
ANYWAY I am a historian and so I know that history repeats itself etc but now that I'm eight hours from flying out and wholly incapable of preparing any kind of food for tomorrow I'm thinking I want to make this tart instead because it's new! and exciting! and caramel is always a challenge.
Another challenge is the "recreate all of the January 2008 issue of Gourmet" challenge, to take place after school ends. I need seven people to subject themselves to this. Volunteers?
of all the things we ate at the third part of my birthday:
Oops, when I tried to paste this I came up with an Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. quote about Congress. My bad.
salmon tartare mint tzatziki eggplant spread grilled pita bread the most amazing crackers I've ever had in my life fried goat cheese balls with red onion jam and honey bacalao fritters moules frites duck confit phyllo cigars grilled calamari with gigante beans feta and spinach flatbread with raisins and pine nuts fattoush with pumpkin and beets greek salad lamb tagine with beets and couscous almond torta milk chocolate budino passionfruit panna cotta
