la dolce vita
I know Comic-Con pics would probably be more interesting, but I just can't bury these behind new uploads so let's get to it real quick. And then, oh, do I have some goodies to show off.
Unlike these, which are somewhere between unappetizing and totally gross-looking. Still tasty, except for the something-like-an-eggs-benedict which I never ate because I turned out be feel under the weather that day and was not prepared for experimentation or cold Hollandaise.
This was fun! I've had these Hello Kitty rice molds for ages but I never use them. I'm also slowly mastering making rice after a lifetime of needing my sister to make her patently awesome recipe and ruing the day she moved away.
Berries are wonderfully in season right now, they are just amazing. To the right we have my famous green bean casserole, some broccoli, and some meatloaf.
The cherries aren't bad either. We've also got leftover meatloaf crumbled up for tacos, decorated with avocado cutouts.
I don't have all too much to say about this lunch, except that it reminds me of how, when I make the effort, this project has really helped me establish healthier eating patterns, as well as eating seasonally. Thank goodness for that.
That's raspberry coulis over the fruit, made possible thanks to the our latest kitchen addition, a decent strainer. Along with the food processor and the standing mixer, it's been getting a lot of use.
I had to send in an entry for a bento contest out of this batch, so I picked this one. It turned out to really be a breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast was fresh raspberries and Reynardo's rice pudding with a little extra cinnamon, lunch was the peanut butter and blackberry sandwich and I had the salad for dinner, the highlight of which was the balsamic vinaigrette I made in the food processor.
And now the evidence of standing mixer use, yet more trifle. I don't feel particularly bad, because it takes wonderful advantage of the freaking amazing fruit that's available right now, courtesy of farmers markets and trucks on the side of the road. There's strawberry/razz coulis mixed into the whipped cream, too, but it didn't really give it the bright pink cast I was hoping for. Still and all, you're looking at some major delicious right here.
Unlike these, which are somewhere between unappetizing and totally gross-looking. Still tasty, except for the something-like-an-eggs-benedict which I never ate because I turned out be feel under the weather that day and was not prepared for experimentation or cold Hollandaise.
This was fun! I've had these Hello Kitty rice molds for ages but I never use them. I'm also slowly mastering making rice after a lifetime of needing my sister to make her patently awesome recipe and ruing the day she moved away.
Berries are wonderfully in season right now, they are just amazing. To the right we have my famous green bean casserole, some broccoli, and some meatloaf.
The cherries aren't bad either. We've also got leftover meatloaf crumbled up for tacos, decorated with avocado cutouts.
I don't have all too much to say about this lunch, except that it reminds me of how, when I make the effort, this project has really helped me establish healthier eating patterns, as well as eating seasonally. Thank goodness for that.
That's raspberry coulis over the fruit, made possible thanks to the our latest kitchen addition, a decent strainer. Along with the food processor and the standing mixer, it's been getting a lot of use.
I had to send in an entry for a bento contest out of this batch, so I picked this one. It turned out to really be a breakfast, lunch and dinner. Breakfast was fresh raspberries and Reynardo's rice pudding with a little extra cinnamon, lunch was the peanut butter and blackberry sandwich and I had the salad for dinner, the highlight of which was the balsamic vinaigrette I made in the food processor.
And now the evidence of standing mixer use, yet more trifle. I don't feel particularly bad, because it takes wonderful advantage of the freaking amazing fruit that's available right now, courtesy of farmers markets and trucks on the side of the road. There's strawberry/razz coulis mixed into the whipped cream, too, but it didn't really give it the bright pink cast I was hoping for. Still and all, you're looking at some major delicious right here.