Wednesday, December 30, 2009

Scarpetta's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Garlic Basil Oil


This sounds fabulous, and well worth a trip to Steamy Kitchen where you can get the recipe from the fabulous Jaden. You'll save the trip to NYC and the $24 per plate at Scarpetta's. You can make it for your entire family, with a salad, and a decent bottle of wine for $24. You might be able to find 4 cute plates on clearance at Target and still come in under $24, too.

Scarpetta's Spaghetti with Fresh Tomato Sauce and Garlic Basil Oil, recipe and picture via Steamy Kitchen

Sunday, December 13, 2009

She's back: Caramel corn, Spice Cake


Boy, did I ever get tired of Thanksgiving recipes. Every single blog for weeks screamed, "The most comprehensive Thanksgiving recipe list you'll ever need," or "The best turkey," or "Turkey leftovers I have known." Too much. I stopped checking any blogs in my Google Reader that had the work "turkey" in it.

Which isn't to say that I haven't been amassing a bunch of new recipes. Haven't kicked many tires or taken much out for a spin given that I'm lucky to find time to shower these days, however, a girl can dream. Get a load of:

Caramel corn (picture via Orangette)

If it is good enough for Orangette I'm pretty sure it is going to be good enough for me and then some.

Joy the Baker has had, as usual, some dreamy stuff of late. Every time I look at this recipe I want to run into the kitchen and start measuring:

Lemon glazed spice cake with whipped cream (picture from Joy the Baker)

Sigh.

Coffee Toffee anyone? It is cruel of me to me to post this because, gentle reader, I am out of coffee. I can't sleep because I only have 8 billion things to do before 8am, and I have no coffee. And it's raining out. And I've been up since 5:30am. The headache I am going to have in about 4-3-2-1 seconds is going to be a bitch. Still, though, if I had some of this toffee right now it might not be ALL bad:

Coffee Toffee, link and picture from Smitten Kitchen

Speaking of coffee, and damn, it's early, I have to think about breakfast this morning for the small people here in the house. While pancakes will probably be what they request, these sound better to me:

Camino's egg baked in cream

Of course, even though they sound better, offering my kids eggs with onions in them would cause them to have a rage stroke.

Now, the madness must end. I must find a pillow or caffeine. Later----Iced

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