Bellinis in North Conway

Best basil pesto fett. I have ever had. Bad lighting for an iPhone
camera. Was bright green and so fresh.

Leek tart

We buy fresh veggies from Angel Valley Farm at their Saturday morning farm stand in Jonestown, TX. Last week in their newsletter they included a recipe for a Leek Tart. I changed it only slightly, by substituting half green garlic for half the leeks and added prosciutto. Came out great!



bad lighting.. whole quiche


slice of tart

Lasagna

I made lasagna for dinner Saturday and it came out good enough for a picture or two.



4 servings of lasagna


A close up of the nicely browned cheese, so tasty.

new camera, some moon pictures

I've been playing with the new camera for the past couple weeks. Not exclusively but more than I have been cooking. Here are a couple of examples.



Moon in the middle of the day.


Same day but during the evening.



Lost the blue of the sky in this one.


Can still that the sky wasn't really black yet here.


way over processed image that wasn't really very sharp to begin with.

more pickles

sweeter this time and no hot peppers.

vday dinner

I don't remind her enough but I have one of the best partners in life that anyone could ask for. Not only did I spend close to $1000 on myself this week but I didn't even buy a card or chocolates and I am not in the dog house on Valentines Day. We did spend the day together and I got her flowers a couple days ago. We spent the evening making dinner and dessert together. Pictures below.



Beef Burgundy (mostly made by me)


Strawberry Stuffed Blini (mostly made by Michelle)

double roasted red pepper and haloumi bruschetta

Another recipe from A Passion for Cheese that came out REALLY good. The picture below is a small slice of sourdough bread (thank you very much Heather!) with roasted red peppers, kalamata olives, capers and haloumi cheese. This is all topped with a red chili pepper vinaigrette.
This is the best bruschetta I have ever had.