Sunday, April 24, 2011

doughnuts

Doughnuts with Old-English Spiced Sugar, a recipe by Jamie O.  Definition: A doughnut is a fried dough food and is popular in many countries and prepared in various forms as a sweet, or occasionally savory, snack that can be homemade or purchased.  It is believed that in the nineteenth century, Elizabeth Gregory fried flavorful dough with walnuts for her son Hanson Gregory, hence the name doughnut.  Elise & Maggie made this after two delicious quiches that were on the Easter Menu today at the Smith House.  

Sunday, April 17, 2011

gnocchi & baked halibut

Maggie here.  Mom is out working in the garden and I am going solo.  Decided to cook herby gnocchi with arugula & butter sauce and tandoori spiced halibut with cucumber.  Again I am relying pretty heavily on Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsey recipes.  For the gnocchi I baked the potatoes first and then added in the fresh arugula, kneaded it, then rolled it out and cut into 1" pieces.  After cooking I gently tossed them with butter sauce, lemon zest and a handful of freshly grated parmesan cheese.  For the halibut, I marinated the fillets in a spicy pepper paste with yogurt, sugar, chopped mint and lime juice then seared and baked to finish cooking.  The cucumbers were tossed with the extra spicy yogurt to make a cold cucumber salad. Is your mouth watering yet........


raviolini & baked ricotta

We're late getting this post up, but better late - well, you know the rest.  Main course was raviolini of celeriac and thyme, but not having any celeriac we substituted mushrooms and onions.  The spinach raviolini was hand made in Kate's pasta maker.  Dessert was baked ricotta with caramelized peaches.  Thanks to Jamie Oliver & Gordon Ramsey again.