weekend food, no pics ...

Saturday
Breakfast: oatmeal and grapefruit
Lunch: Kobe, VERY good but expensive, we shared and entree and still paid about $40.
Dinner: I forget, probably ate though

Sunday
Breakfast: umm, juice maybe?
Lunch: Dim Sum at Chinatown in north Austin (Mopac and Greystone) awesome, but again expensive
Dinner: umm, continued to digest lunch

Working from home... oh look a kitchen!!!

Working from home has a lot of perks and a few minuses... One of the great eprks is that my kitchen is like 30 feet away. Today's breakfast woudl normally have been something snagged from teh fridge or more than likely fast food on teh way in to the office but today I made myself 2 breakfast tacos from fresh tortillas from HEB, eggs, cheddar cheese, leftover hash (butternut squash, potatoes, onions and elgin sausage) and some hatch chiles. Lunch was another shot at ratatouille which came out much mroe stew like and less soupy. yay for working from home!


hatchy bfast tacos


ratatouille v2.0

Freebirds

Those of you in Austin (hmm ok so the one person who reads this might be in Austin) will probably have heard of Freebirds. They are one of the measures for lunchtime overstuffed burritos. They make have more options and the environment inside their restaurants is much warmer than Chipotle. While I was in the Boston area working for the past 9 months or so apparently someone finally pulled their heads outa the sand and opened a new Freebirds just down the street from my office. Makes life much better when there is a close by lunch place that isn't Taco Deli, Mangia or the Cafe (ok so if you know anything about Austin, there are a ton of other close by restaurants near IBM on Burnet, but I wanted something fast and good and NOT McDonalds. Next time I think a 1/2 bird is in order though because the full Freebird (not the Monster) is just more than I can comfortably eat. Gone are the days when I could eat that much. The other bit of good news is the same new shopping center that has Freebirds also has a Firehouse subs. That is on the list for later this week, they make very decent subs, though if it were a Deleware Subshop I would have been describing a steak and cheese to you and expressing my thoughts about the proper way to make one instead of spouting off about burritos.

Lasagna - again! but homemade

Sorry for there being a lacking of pictures... This one would have been a good candidate but my camera was outa batteries and i didn't think to use my phone, was hungry!

Made lasagna in my Le Crueset cobalt blue terrine dish. This dish is awesome for making a small lasagna because it fits exactly one lasagna noodle in length and width and with toppings between 4 oan 5 stacked up. Makes 4 very nice servings.

Recipe:
5 lasagna noodles cooked and drained
1/2 lb provolone cheese (i used sliced from deli)
8 oz ricotta cheese
1 egg
italian spices
salt/pepper
1 jar Newman's Own Italian sausage and onion sauce
random shredded italian cheese (maybe 1/2 a cup)
1/2 cup freshly grated parm


Mix the ricotta with egg and seasonings. Layer everything into the terrine making sure you have enough provolone and sauce to cover the top. Sprinkle a bit of the mixed cheeses on top of the sauce (it browns so nicely. CHuck in the oven at 350 for 30 minutes and then raise heat to 450 for 10... this browns the top nicely ... let sit for 10 minutes and serve.

home and ratatouille

Flew home on Friday. Was supposed to take from 12:26pm eastern to about 5:30pm central... thanks to Delta leaving us sitting on the runway for 30 minutes of my 35 minute layover... I missed my connection to Austin and had to take a later flight. Got in about 9pm central. Went from teh airport directly to Kerby Lane restaurant on 183, their new location is to damn new and bright and ugh .. but the staff was still tattoo'd and pierced and nice. The food was also good. Got up this morning and went to the farm stand and got some very fresh squashed and peppers among other things, went to O'Leander restaurant in Leander for lunch and then back home with the dogs. For dinner we had homemade ratatouille.



ratatouille in a small dish