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selkie at 08:52pm on 30/04/2006
selkie at 08:52pm on 30/04/2006Friday night, we went to Great Big Sea with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
chickwriter, her friend D, Intellectual Chewie Toy and his wife, and Cat Lady and her husband. It was a fabulous concert, full of energy! I liked the first set much better than the second set, but that's personal preference, and there was no bad music to be had.
Yesterday, we baby-sat for the Little Prince, which was decent -- although I wish Daddy had had the sense to disappear off to the data center instead of puttering around where the Little Prince could see him.
Last night, I had the second best meal of my entire life. For my mother-in-law's birthday, we went to Aldo's Ristorante in Baltimore, and it was just phenomenal. I had lobster bisque, osso buco and risotto al funghi (thank you, little baby cow, for giving me your leg bone complete with a marrowspoon on the side) and I finished with zabaglione with fresh strawberries -- the most perfect zabaglione I have ever tasted. My wife's bitter chocolate mousse was wonderful too, Guittard I think, and the chocolate work on the plate didn't hurt. Dad-in-law had a tart cherry and red wine napoleon. It worked surprisingly well.
Dad-in-law also paid, thank heaven. We had brought money with us, but it would have covered two first plates and an entree.
Today I slept til 11:00, baked bread, did the laundry, ran the dishwasher, cleaned up after the cats and scored a couch for $40.00 .
Ayup.
It's a nice couch, too. The amount of nice furniture we've gotten from cash-and-carry, leavin'-the-building-NOW flyers is kinda scary. It makes us think people are, like, fleeing the law.
So far, for those keeping score, The Bread Baker's Apprentice is no-fail. I've made the brioche, the cinnamon-raisin bread, the buttermilk white bread, the parve challah, and pain a l'ancienne.muffinbutt, I'll try to remember to post/e-mail the pain a l'ancienne recipe, which not only works but is braindead easy and cheap.
And now I have to go start a sponge for my wife's private stock of brioche. She demanded more. I think that means the recipe worked.
chickwriter, her friend D, Intellectual Chewie Toy and his wife, and Cat Lady and her husband. It was a fabulous concert, full of energy! I liked the first set much better than the second set, but that's personal preference, and there was no bad music to be had.Yesterday, we baby-sat for the Little Prince, which was decent -- although I wish Daddy had had the sense to disappear off to the data center instead of puttering around where the Little Prince could see him.
Last night, I had the second best meal of my entire life. For my mother-in-law's birthday, we went to Aldo's Ristorante in Baltimore, and it was just phenomenal. I had lobster bisque, osso buco and risotto al funghi (thank you, little baby cow, for giving me your leg bone complete with a marrowspoon on the side) and I finished with zabaglione with fresh strawberries -- the most perfect zabaglione I have ever tasted. My wife's bitter chocolate mousse was wonderful too, Guittard I think, and the chocolate work on the plate didn't hurt. Dad-in-law had a tart cherry and red wine napoleon. It worked surprisingly well.
Dad-in-law also paid, thank heaven. We had brought money with us, but it would have covered two first plates and an entree.
Today I slept til 11:00, baked bread, did the laundry, ran the dishwasher, cleaned up after the cats and scored a couch for $40.00 .
Ayup.
It's a nice couch, too. The amount of nice furniture we've gotten from cash-and-carry, leavin'-the-building-NOW flyers is kinda scary. It makes us think people are, like, fleeing the law.
So far, for those keeping score, The Bread Baker's Apprentice is no-fail. I've made the brioche, the cinnamon-raisin bread, the buttermilk white bread, the parve challah, and pain a l'ancienne.
muffinbutt, I'll try to remember to post/e-mail the pain a l'ancienne recipe, which not only works but is braindead easy and cheap.And now I have to go start a sponge for my wife's private stock of brioche. She demanded more. I think that means the recipe worked.
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