another photoless post

Ok. This is totally lame but I have been hankering for a pb+j sandwich for a few days, earth shattering right? Either way, we tend not to have jelly/jam in the house purely because it does not get eaten. In my quest I remembered that pb and honey is rather delicious as well, alas no honey. BUT we do have wonderful vanilla flavored agave..... and holy shit it was amazing. I don't know if it was the fact that it was a new flavor combo or what but I am still dreaming about that half a sandwich.

pizza with broccoli and garlic scape pesto

This time of year is one of my favorites, not just because its getting warmer and you get to cookout more often, but because of garlic scapes. I was introduced to them a few years ago in our CSA share and was instantly hooked. We now seek them out when they are in season and toss them in just about everything that we cook, soup, pasta, stir-frys, the whole she-bang. Yesterdays dinner turned out to be chock full of scapey goodness. We used premade dough from the market topped with scape pesto, some broccoli, a few plops of ricotta, and a sprinkling of grated parmesan. It was awesome. Alas since I am a bad blogger.... we forgot to take pictures. Sigh

I still am being a bad blogger

I can't say that I have gotten my mojo back and that makes me sad. So I am forcing the mojo. Keep an eye out, there will be something soon, I promise.

Kung Pao Tofu

Told you that I didn't totally abandon this little nook of the interweb. In an effort to use some tofu that was nearing its "best by" witching hour I opted to make some kung pao tofu. I adapted this wonderful looking recipe from For the Love of Cooking. It came out rather tasty if I do say so myself, and was quickly nommed by the boys in the house.

I am being a very bad blogger

In contrast with my general bad pictures and lame prose, I have simply been lazy and uninspired.....

And I kinda don't know where the camera went.

Regardless, it is no excuse. I just need to find my mojo, maybe spring will perk me up. Keep your fingers crossed.

Irish Soda Bread

In order to fortify the Hubbs for the opening of sanctioned outdoor drinking season in downtown Albany, AKA the St. Patrick's day parade, I made some holiday appropriate soda bread. This was a slightly modified version of Helen Doyle's Irish Soda Bread from Cooking Light. I skipped the caraway seeds and used a mix of milk and buttermilk as to extend the buttermilk a bit. It came together very quickly and did not suffer for me skipping the quick knead. I really felt that kneading something only 3-4 times was not worth making the floury giant kneading mess.
From the best that I can tell the Hubbs survived the parade (I had to miss it). I can't say that my lovingly made soda bread actually helped but I would like to think it did.

Sorry for the whole lot of nothing....

I have not abandoned my sweet little blog, it is just that a lot of things are lining up so that there is very little to post.

There was some fun bacon toffee made for a birthday soiree, but someone (cough, Hubbs looking in your general direction) deleted all of the pictures on the camera. It was wicked tasty and allowed me to conquer my fear of the candy thermometer. It was inspired by a post by Foodie With Family. If you want pictures and the low-down it is all there. And it was totally had not to just eat this toffee for every meal, matter of fact we may have bookended every meal and snack with the nummy bits of sugary-bacony-goodness.

I also have been traveling for work and some family stuff and was hoping for some wonderful meals or restaurants to post about, however it really just didn't happen. I had a full week of rather mediocre food, not to many gems in the lot.

Keep an eye out for a few things to come.... I have a few things up my sleeve.