Work has been tough this year, but I'm still going and am still cooking (and eating) lots and lots. Husband#1 has been inspired himself to become quite the chef and my gals are getting more and more interested in what goes on in the kitchen. They've even been making me one or two delicious items in their own kitchen: Marshmallow flavoured rabbit sausages with a chocolate jus and jelly steak with an octopus vinaigrette.
One good thing is that the older the gals become, the less frozen meals I'm making for them and the more we're all sharing the same meals on an evening. I love that! They love fish and I love that even more! Lunches are including more and more eggs or smoked fish (made into patés with low fat cream cheese and other lovely things). Their favourite tea (and ours) is fish with pesto pasta and you can't short change them with small portions, either.
Husband#1's recent offerings have all been taken from The Barefoot Contessa, but he does them well. He made lobster and prawn potato salad for us all the other day; he's made lemon chicken, roasted vegetable frittata, Fish with roasted vegetables, lobster mac and cheese as well as a delicious baby octopus recipe from the internet (sorry Ina, not your recipe, but one of my favourites!)
And then there's the cocktails, again, mostly Ina inspired but both Husband#1 and I have been shaking them up at the end of a long week: Duke's Cosmopolitans, Watermelon Mojitos, Pomegranate Cosmopolitans. I even made my own: the Bernard and the Bernard Royale (pronounce in the American style, please, like brrr-nard!)
I've had a few lovely recipes to share but no time tonight. Future treats will include homemade chicken and sweetcorn soup, crab and pea risotto, fresh fruit chocolate bark, crab and coconut cakes with sweet chilli sauce and lots more.
Looking forward to getting back into my food bloggery :-)
