Happy New Year’s Eve! Seafood Risotto with Prosecco

Ah, the last post of 2008. See you, 2008! There were a few really good things about this year, a few really annoying things, and a few things things that mostly stayed the same. What will 2009 bring? Well, hopefully more of really good things! Already, I am looking forward to Ashland/California in May and Montana in August. But most definitely, 2009 will bring more risotto!

This was influenced by a risotto recipe in the cookbook, Big Night In. But mainly, that’s just the prosecco part. My seafood here was about 1 pound of shrimp and 1/2 a pound of cubed, cooked halibut. But you could totally skip the halibut — I just added it because I had 2 small, frozen halibut steaks in the fridge that I wanted to . . . → Read More: Happy New Year’s Eve! Seafood Risotto with Prosecco

Cauliflower Goat Cheese Gratin + Beef Wellington Pastry Bot!

Happy Holidays! I hope everyone had nice meals, presents and what-not. We did. On Christmas we had Beef Wellingtons — thank you cow, again, you were delicious!, this awesome cauliflower gratin and some braised brussels sprouts. Our snow is almost melted now, which is good as I really need to go to work Monday!

Okay, so the cauliflower recipe is based on one by Bobby Flay, but I changed some stuff. Also, our head of cauliflower was on the small side. Adjust amounts as needed for your amount of cauliflower.

Cauliflower Goat Cheese Gratin
Adapted from Bobby Flay
1 head cauliflower, cut into florets
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 clove garlic, peeled, cut in half
1/2 tsp lemon zest
1 cup Monterey Jack cheese, coarsely grated
1/2 cup grated Parmesan
2 green onion, chopped
3 ounces goat cheese, cut into . . . → Read More: Cauliflower Goat Cheese Gratin + Beef Wellington Pastry Bot!

Winter! Snow! Portland! Pork Tenderloin!

We’re getting the promised snow. Winter-Arctic-Blasta-Pooloza! We ventured out to the closest fancy store (Zupans beat New Seasons by about 5 blocks each way) to get Pork Tenderloin and Brussels sprouts for dinner…

I think this is SE 32nd Ave a couple of blocks from our house

Snow blowing off a roof by SE Belmont

More snow

Me, snow, colorful, Belmont-y house

Off of SE Hawthorne

jwa walking…in snow

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Portland Farmer’s Market for 12/20 — Cancelled

No market this Saturday because of the STOOPID SNOW!!@!@

More info at . . . → Read More: Portland Farmer’s Market for 12/20 — Cancelled