Sunday, March 30, 2008

The Spanish Omelette

This recipe was from Nigella Express (yea! Nigella Lawson!). The only reason I'm proud of making this is because it called for a jar of roasted red pepper but instead I roasted my own!! Yes, for me that is very impressive. Anyway, there were a few problems...all of them being my fault. First, the recipe called for baby new potatoes. Huh? What are those? Nothing in the grocery store was labeled that so instead I got some red-skinned potatoes. Then, since I knew the pan I was using was bigger than the one they called for I got extra potatoes. Smart, right? Except I forgot to add extra eggs so the potatoes totally took over my omelette. So it cooks for awhile on the stove and then you put it in the broiler to brown the top (that's why I had to use my cast-iron pan because my normal pans are not oven-proof). After you take it out you are supposed to flip the pan over onto a plate and the omelette supposedly slides off cleanly and you then cut the omelette into wedges...right...You can see what happened to mine after I flipped the pan in the last picture.

Here are the red peppers after roasting. Then you stick them in a bag for 20 minutes or so and peel off the skin...

This is what they looked like after I chopped it up.

Egg mixture...(I probably should have just made this as the omelette)

Here is the omelette after cooking. So many potatoes!

And after I "flipped" the pan over...

Friday, March 28, 2008

Chocolate Cheesecake Cupcakes

I like taking pictures of food but has anyone else noticed how hard it is to take pictures of food at night with all the shiny pans, spoons and bowls around? Anyway, I made these for Pat to take to work yesterday and haven't tried one...yet...hopefully I get one today! I was informed that they were very tasty. That's good since they don't look so appealing. Also, I'm not normally a big batter eater but both the filling and batter were super tasty!
Filling:

Before the topping was added (and before baking...)

All done!

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Happy Birthday Pat!

Happy 27th Birthday!!!

Owen will be celebrating all day!

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Easter Baking

I'm trying to try out one new recipe a week and this was last week's (the week before was the Bundt cake). It's called Oatmeal Breakfast Bread and it went into two Easter baskets! I got a taste and it was yummy. The point of trying a new recipe was so I would actually make dinners but so far it's all been baking!


Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Distractions

How easily distracted is Owen?

Here he is playing with some stacking blocks...


He carried them into the kitchen and...

...ditched them to watch cars from the kitchen window.

Monday, March 24, 2008

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Fun Owen

These are happy pictures of Owen playing this afternoon as if nothing bad happened to him this morning. He was stuck with needles in both arms and cried and screamed and then just took a long nap and woke up totally refreshed! What a trooper, you know?! This despite having two bruised arms (one of which looks like someone punched him all over). Plus, how many people can wear white dinosaur pajama pants during the day and get away with it? Just Owen:)


Monday, March 17, 2008

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We wore green to celebrate! Now there are only 10 more days until Patrick's Day!

Here is Owen thinking about what St. Patrick's Day means to him.


Friday, March 14, 2008

Two Owens

Scary Owen...

Cute Owen


Thursday, March 13, 2008

Lemon-Blueberry Bundt Cake

Yes, it is super tasty.


Our Snow Pictures!

These first two pictures are before we shoveled and about halfway through the storm.



It took us two hours to shovel the driveway (some of that time was spent whining). This is the next morning.