We started off the year like the gluttons we are. We cooked and ate all night on New Year’s Eve. We started off with chopped liver on this bread that everyone’s been making and now we know why: it’s sheer genius - so easy and so soo sooo good (if you make it, definitely read the update). Then we served up steamed mussels before we moved on to the fryer and fried up some potatoes and panko-crusted portabellos and zucchini to go with our homemade aioli. We didn’t even get to our ragu and fresh pasta until 11. We were so stuffed that we had to wait until the next day for our friends to come back for leftovers, round 2 of frying (onion rings, mushrooms and more zucchini) and this chocolate pie from the latest issue of Bon Appetit. Are you disgusted? Well, for us it was the perfect way to celebrate.
I’m generally not one for resolutions, since I have this vague sense of setting myself up for failure, but this year, I have made one: I am going to stop reading Perez Hilton. It’s such a bad habit, and I always feel a little dirty afterwards. Anyone make any good resolutions this year?
01.3.08 at 10.27 am
isn’t that bread the best, i think you should resolve to make it twice a month…
and regarding those other resolutions, i fight every year with myself not to make them but then i do and then i fail… it isn’t good for ones soul.
01.3.08 at 7.30 pm
i found your site through ikea hacker, your kids craft table is truly the best hack that i have seen on there.
i had to write because, although i am not ready to give it up, perez hilton is way too addictive and should be on my list as well. good luck with that resolution!!
01.5.08 at 8.27 pm
I dig the last two collages so much!
Never read Perez Hiltion, good thing I know not to now.
Your meal sounds delicious to me and if you can hold it down, eat it.
01.6.08 at 4.35 am
You are the second person I’ve seen who has a resolution to give up Perez Hilton - I’m still going to read it though :)
Good luck with the resolution!