Thursday 1-17-13

 I have two friends coming over for lunch. I know again, with the lunch. Both of them are chefs, Chris Grant and Trace Williams, so I'm going to try and do some fine cooking today, That's not to say I don't do fine cooking everyday, but I don't have folks from Mississippi visiting everyday.

I'm cooking pappardelle pasta with oxtail ragu, baby carrots, peas (which I never put out) and I will include the recipe before the next week is gone. I'm also going to grill a pesto, asiago, new potato, julianne red bell peppers, pizza, with anchovies on the side as an appetizer. If you go down these blogs you can find recipes for pesto and pizza. I'm also making a big salad with greens and a bunch of veggies and my all around vinaigrette that I have to write up the recipe for one of these days. Chris, I'll get it to you one way or another.

I got some funky Italian nouveau red wine blend and I think I'm going to break out that chocolate bar from Chocolate Fusion that I blogged about a couple of days ago to finish off the meal. Didn't do this.  It's just enough sweetness for dessert, and maybe some fresh mint tea from the garden.  Didn't do this, not enough time in the day.  Trace, chef to the stars, from England made bread pudding.

Update later today: I had a ball you guys. Thanks for coming over. One of two high points of my year so far. If the year keeps going like this it will be a good one, as I predicted. Who said I was a fucking cynic? Trace, that bread pudding is boss honey. I can hear it calling me from the kitchen say, "Come eat me, I you know you want to." Good thing Michael from Totenes is here and our friend Guy is coming tomorrow and he's an old hippie, with no teeth, who loves sweets and he needs the calories.

Chris you're amazing. I'm looking forward to coming down to the delta.

You can contact Chef Trace Williams on twitter at tracewilliams.com and chef Chris Grant at Twitter  using these signs deltachef47.

Peace,

Make Food/Not War

Chef Trace and Brother Chris

Chris picking pink peppercorns 

we came, we ate, too busy talking and eating to shoot


Breakfast: plain black tea, cereal w/strawberries and banana, soy milk, large glass of OJ

    Snacks: a couple of handfuls of raisins and nuts.

                             
                                          Lunch: Pasta, Pizza, salad, wine, weed, and fun damn it..fun


Who let the cat out?



                               Exercise today....4.5 miles walking