Let me begin by telling you how IN LOVE I am with this book!
Mad Hungry: Feeding Men & Boys by Lucinda Scala Quinn (The Executive Food Director for Martha Stewart Living) It’s beautifully written and OMG the inside is a graph designer’s dream. It’s like Blueprint magazine made a cookbook filled with the tastiest looking man food!
I started to mark the recipes I wanted to make with tags and then I had to stop because I found myself marking EVERY SINGLE PAGE.
I’m totally a visual person (if you haven’t guessed that yet). Which means I rely heavily on my computer and old posts/flickr to get me through food cravings…and help me decide what to make for dinner. I suggest taking photos of what you make, so you can reference! Sometimes I look up stuff online thru my phone at the grocery store. Hooray for technology. I am such a slave.
I’ve been looking around at my collection, and realized that I make a lot of soup at this time of year!
I put together a lil post of my favorites!
Each one will no doubt warm you up on a chilly night…or a nice weekend afternoon.
I tend to freeze a few servings with each batch so I can take them to work with me later on.
Today I ate some Mexican Chicken Soup that I made in August. That was pretty cool.
Pulling one out from the vault! This time I have daylight pics and some tasty additions.
Last night called for something hearty, warm and comforting…..
I made Chicken Sausage & Bean Casserole with Sage!!
This past weekend I went to the First Annual Food Buzz Festival. It was teeming with food bloggers from all around the country!
Soo much food! SOOOO much food. Soo much FREE alcohol! FREE!
I don’t think that I could even recap- I wouldn’t know where to start!
I forgot my camera, so I used my cellphone this weekend. That’s OK.
I knew at least someone would be taking pics! Here’s a little visual for ya:
Oh hello there! Nice of you to stop by. I thoughtI would take a moment and share with my current state with you.
The internet has been filled with people’s weekend excursions to apple farms! I’ve looked at countless pictures of people picking apples, getting apple pies, and cider doughnuts…. It has made me SOO jealous. I WANT TO PICK APPLES! I want fresh doughnuts and apple cider!
So I had a little conversation with my neighbor today. (The neighbor that gives us peas, butternut squash, tomatoes, APPLES, etc.) Somehow I charmed her into giving me a whole flat of apples out of a conversation about her deck remodel! I promised her that I would applesauce RIGHT AWAY.
I wasn’t kidding. I immediately got into the kitchen and plugged away.
And this is what I came up with! I must admit, I’ve never followed an actual applesauce recipe. I just remember what my mom taught me as a kid when we picked apples from my Grandma’s house. Oh man, I remember that smell! We were always soo delighted to eat warm applesauce as kids.
When making applesauce, I live by the *taste as you go code.* It turned out perfectly! Because I can’t sit here and write it out, I figure that I’ll just show you.
Let’s get started!
I started out with a huge bowl of apples. I think there were at least 12 in there.
