Gnocchi - First Try

Our first attempt at making gnocchi!  We used white and purple potatoes ... I'm not sure this was 100% a success but they did taste good!  If anything, the texture was ALL wrong.  Brownie sauteed them with sage butter and herbs so ... the flavor was seriously awesome.  But I think we need to try this again and see where we went wrong :-)  Or maybe I should just leave this challenge to Brownie instead of getting my clumsy hands in the way!  HAHAHAHA

Vegan BBQ

I have a dear friend who is trying to get back to eating vegan and we were long overdue for a visit.  Since we asked him over, we made sure that all of our snacks and everything we grilled was vegan.

Brownie sure does some amazing things with herbs and spices and vegetables!  We were all so full and everything was delicious.  If you think you can't fill up on vegan food - think again!  Portabello mushrooms are an amazing grilling substitute for meat and they have such a rich, meaty flavor.

Vegan BBQ was a success!  What other challenges can we throw around here!?

Fresh Trout!

We took our kids fishing on our way back from camping today and they did pretty well!  I cleaned these beauties tonight and they'll be going in the freezer for future foodie adventures! :-)

It's summer!  Get out there and catch your own ingredients! :-)

Lake to Table!

Brownie and I went fishing today and caught some nice trout!  There's just nothing like cleaning and them and getting them straight on the grill!  :-)

Grilled Rock Fish with Pasta Salad

My stepdaughter wanted Brownie to make her some of his 'pretty food' since we usually only make those things when the kiddos don't need tending.  So tonight, both of us girls got spoiled with his cooking!  My parents gave us some rock fish from one of their fishing trips and ... we put it to good use as usual! :-)

Smoked Duck Breast

Smoked Duck Breast with a Raspberry Port Reduction, Duck Skin Chicharrones and Black Truffle

Brownie has a friend who loves hunting ... someday I will encourage him enough to join these expeditions and fill our freezer!  But I do enjoy the random gifts he brings home from 'beer with the guys' nights!  This week, it was a duck hunting expedition that filled this friend's freezer and they had tried everything and hadn't come up with anything delicious to do with the meat.  So he challenged Brownie to do something!

I personally think he succeeded and now I would like him to become an avid duck hunter :-)  He smoked the duck breast on the BBQ with alder wood and created this beautiful plate for me tonight!

Love, love, love!!!!!!  Yes, this is what everyone should do with duck meat!

Superbowl Sunday

Brownie is a huge college football fan, but neither of us are too interested in the NFL.  The kids were playing and running around the house with the game on, but no one was glued to the TV much.  So we decided to do what we do best - cook!

We now have food for the week and the kids were patient with us because we baked cookies :-)  Win/Win!!!!