Last week we returned from our 2.5 week vacation to Portugal. We have got a TON of blog topics ready to post...but one at a time! Hopefully we haven't lost all of our readers. Today has been an awesome Sunday so I wanted to blog about this first before any blogs on Portugal overshadow it.
Sunday has become our day to try new recipes. Corbin and I LOVE to cook. Today we had soup, salad, and bread. Fairly normal sounding but I have to admit, we did this in style, as you can see by the pictures.
Corbin made his awesome carrot soup, which we put in my favorite bowls. You can sort of see that there are lion heads on the side of the bowl. I think the soup tastes even better in these bowls. This is a soup Corbin learned to make on his mission in Portugal, but we didn't actually eat this soup while we were there (we did eat other kinds of soup though).
We had a very untraditional pear salad. And for our bread, I made a very very salty grape and basil foccacia. I love salt but I over did it a bit on the coarse sea salt :)
We really loved our travels in Portugal, but as cheesy as it sounds, there's no place like home or home cooking. This was quite poignant to me as I paused in my reading this afternoon. On my lap sat Papel taking a nap. (Since we've been home he's been very clingy.) Corbin was on the couch learning to play Silent Night on the guitar. And the air was filled with a mixed scent of stargazer lily and baking bread. I can't imagine anywhere else I'd rather be.
6 Helens agree.
You know, we are great taste testers.... :)
I seem too remember making ice cream with one Alice Black who salted "to taste"...which meant it was the sourest ice cream I have ever tasted. I believe the quote was "I like salt" as you dumped an entire canister of salt into the ice cream maker.
I have to say, that is the most beautiful Pear Salad I have ever seen...and I like lion's heads also! :o)
Tell Corbin to hurry up and become a famous scientist so you can move here and try out all of those new recipes on me :)
Was that white sauce a Sunday afternoon creation? Because it was Holy.
Dude, I need your carrot soup recipe. And any others that aren't beyond my skill level. Mostly I just handle barbecues and Saturday breakfast.
You went back to Portugal? You've got to put some pictures up!
Go ahead. It's only 2¢.