Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Pie

Dear Tia Fia-

The idea to put a fried egg on a salad is genius! At work, about a week ago, we were discussing odd things that tasted good with fried eggs on them. My list included hamburgers, enchiladas, and hash browns (not weird, but definitely a classic). Nobody mentioned greens, I can't wait to tell 'em about it.

Glad you liked my pseudo food porn pics. I swear to God I will never arrange peaches in the shape of a starfish ever ever again.

After years in the service industry, B and I have finally organized Sundays off together. To celebrate we like to cook, have a fight, and then make up. The picture was taken after cooking and before the fight. The walnuts, goat cheese, and peaches added to arugula was the most exciting part. It tasted kinda like a grown-up version of peaches and cream. B composed the dressing. Together he combined:

1/2 cup of prosecco (reduced to half a cup)
1 egg yolk
lotsa basil
pepper
shallot
garlic
lotsa lemon juice

Dressings are super hard to do though, and we needed to put a ton more lemon or maybe a vinegar in the stuff. It didn't distract from the salad, but it could've added more.

Tonight I pulled from my favorite food blog- www.simplyrecipes.com. Elise always selects the most yummy recipes. She uses a ton of fresh veggies and her ingredients are never high-brow. Today I tried to make her Tomato Pie. Hers looked like this (includes the recipe).
Mine looked like this:


LOOK"N GOOD! Right?

The warm cheesy zucchini tomato goodness was amazing- that is not an exaggeration. Adding the zucchini and using a store-bought whole wheat crust, it was little different than Elise's, but everything else I followed to the letter. This recipe will definitely be made again.

Did you finish your statement of purpose?

Love,
TT

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