My aunt Roxy made an amazing spicy chicken soup when I was up visiting her in Auberry, CA. I was taken by the recipe and the cookbook it came from and instead of re-writing the recipe (which I had already started to do) she ordered the book for me. This book is amazing! Last weekend I made two recipes from it: 1) Creamy Corn Bisque with Crab and Leeks and 2) Green Bean, Cherry Tomato and Bacon Salad. I spent most of the morning wandering around a local Farmer's Market searching for ingredients. I found fresh honey cream (I think) sweet corn, red and yellow cherry tomatoes, green beans, leeks, garlic, and a couple of huge cantaloupes. The rest of the ingredients came from Hy-Vee including the artifical crab meat from behind the meat counter. While the recipes listed a MUCH shorter preparation time otherwise they were simple to follow. I added a little more pepper flakes to the soup to spice it up a bit - my audience tends to like things REALLY spicy - but otherwise the recipes were flawless.
Tonight, I'm trying homemade pizza from this website. I'll try to remember to take some pictures this time. Bon Appetit!
Friday, August 19, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
WEFEST 2011
We traveled up to Detroit Lakes - an 8 hour trip - to WeFest last week. It was an amazing line-up of Country musicians from the Charlie Daniels Band to Sugarland I enjoyed all of them. Now if only the concert was a little closer to home I'd be game to go again next year when Alabama headlines.
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