Entries from August 2007

August 30, 2007

The Tomato Week

It all started with this box:

A good friend from my hometown met Matt and I halfway between Lubbock and Portales a few weeks ago. I had expressed fear that I would make it through the whole summer without having a single, proper Summer tomato. She expressed her overwhelming abundance of the sort [...]

August 24, 2007

Much Impressed

Matt made pretzel rolls last night. Taste just like a pretzel, but shaped like a dinner roll. These really were impressive  He scored the top (cut slits in the raw dough) and I brushed them with egg whites and sprinkled with Kosher salt. It was such a nice effect – where he scored [...]

August 22, 2007

Ode to the French

Well, maybe we aren’t saluting the French yet, but we are celebrating their food and quite enjoying it, too! This past weekend Matt and I just had an itch to make all new dishes for Saturday night dinner. 75% of the recipes came out of the Les Halles cookbook, the cookbook from the [...]

August 16, 2007

latest photo shoot – 8.10.07

I got the privilege of doing an owner/pet shoot last Friday. I’ve always wanted to do more pet photography and even took my business card around to pretty much every groomer in this town, but no one had taken me up on it yet until last week when a sweet girl named Dustie called [...]

August 8, 2007

Faux-Reos

Matt got this recipe from www.kingarthurflour.com and made them last week in place of his usual bread. In all honesty, I am posting this because the pictures I took of the “oreos” match the color scheme on my blog really nicely. How’s that for simple. The cookies were really good and the [...]