Cream of wheat parfait

 Thats right cream of wheat!  Beautiful eh!?

Mixed berries, fresh whipped cream and good old cream of wheat porridge. 
I simply made a pot of cream of wheat, added some sugar and cream. Cooled it down and then layered everything in a wine glass and chilled.  Yummy but still kinda good for you!

Bacon Mac 'n Cheese

Tonight I needed a little comfort food so mac 'n cheese was the obvious choice!  Except this time I added some bacon to the mix! I also used panko for the topping instead of bread crumbs.  Nice and crunchy.

Yummy!  But definately needs more bacon next time!  : )

Seafood feast

So tonight hubby and I had a huge seafood craving.  Not for just scallops or shrimp.  But for everything scallops, shrimp, oysters, mussels and even lobster.

So we started with mussels with a plate of chilled mussels on the half shell with mignonette sauce.  These were delicious!  We always have our mussels hot.  But these were steam in white wine then tossed in a mignonette sauce of the leftover wine from the mussels, shallots, parlsely and chopped capers.  Then you put the mussel on each shell and top with a bit of the sauce.

Then we had a plate of hot seafoods.

I made a sweet potato puree and topped it with a corn, red pepper and red onion succotash.  It was topped with 4 panko coated scallops.  In the back are deep fried oysters.  3 lemon garlic shrimp and a lobster complete the dinner.  It was yummy! 

The only thing I would do different next time is to make a dip or sauce for the oysters.  They were good but needed something.
All in all a pretty good meal.  Can't wait to do it again!

Indian Dinner

Tonight we had an Indian feast!  Rice, yellow curry chicken,  roast cauliflower and potatoes, red lentils, madras curry beef and mango chutney.  It was pretty darn good if I do say so myself!  lol

Applesauce

Tonight I made applesauce. I had picked up a basket of apples from home and thought I should use some up.


And voila! Isn't is a beautiful red!

Grab your spoon and dig in!

Dinner at the Camp

This weekend at the camp I made a chili and caramelized pears. My youngest son also made beer bread. He found it in a magazine and wanted to try it so we did.

Beer Bread

1 can of beer, your choice

3 cups flour

1/3 cup sugar

3 tsp baking powder

1.5 tsp salt

1/4 cup melted butter

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• In a large bowl mix dry ingredients, pour in beer and stir until moistened. Dough will be sticky.
• Press in to a greased loaf pan.
• Bake 40-45 minutes
• Pour melted butter over the top of loaf and bake for 10 more minutes.
  

It was really easy to make and quite tasty. The butter on top makes it all crunchy and yummy!

What a surprise!

So...... my last day at work Chef hands me a package with this jacket in it! He totally caught me off guard.

Every month he gives a jacket to a team member and I guess August was my month. I had no idea and that made it even sweeter!