We’ve been Tofu Paté fans since way back, but hadn’t ever really gotten around to giving it a from-scratch whirl until Mom & Dad Cook went all vegan on us. Mom Cook is a phenomenal home chef and once we had a sample of the Tofu Paté she was making we just knew we had to give it a go ourselves. Continue reading
Disclaimer: general life stuff and the toddlerish state of our daughter has been preventing us from working on this site as much as we should over the last year (or two).
Now that I’ve got the disclaimer out of the way we can get down to business.
We’re starting to eat and drink stuff that’s fairly interesting again. Couple that with a bit of free time here and there and some extra energy from all the healthy eating we’ve been doing and you have yourself the makings for a new site theme and some new posts. Woohoo!
We have a couple posts coming down the pipe in the next week or two, and I (Gavin) have started development on a new custom theme for The Haute Kitchen. In the meantime I’ve swapped out our dated old theme for the new default TwentyEleven WordPress theme.
See you soon!
I can’t explain to you why it took so long for me to start baking bread. Well, maybe I can – I thought it was hard. I was so very, very wrong…
See – I was somehow convinced that baking bread required some kind of unholy alchemy. You know, the lighting of candles, burning of incense, much incantation chanting and whatnot and then ‘poof’ your loaf rises.
Turns out it’s almost bonehead easy and satisfying in a greater-than-the-sum-of-its-parts kind of way…and you can let a toddler help you with it (good-parenting bonus!!).
When we were in the throes of a Gordon Ramsey YouTube bender a while back we happened across this video:
We don’t eat Beef very often. Mostly we just can’t afford it since really good Beef is significantly more expensive than really good Chicken (and we deserve the best, goldurnit!). Thus, more often than not – and in spite of multi-million dollar ad campaigns to the contrary – its actually Chicken that’s “what’s for dinner” in our house (sorry, Beef). Continue reading
This is yet another divine vehicle for what can only be described as The Best Balsamic Vinaigrette in the World. This also happens to be one of the most eclectically delicious salads Julie has ever cobbled together.
Everyone in our family knows we eat a ton of salad and, as usual, it was requested of us that we bring one to dinner at Mom & Dad’s. Also as usual we applied ourselves nary a bit to preparing anything ahead of time and so we had to go with the stuff that was in the fridge/pantry – which was Baby Spinach, Fresh Figs, Green Olives, Blue Cheese Crumbles, Roasted Sunflower Seeds, and our standby Balsamic Vinaigrette.
The dressing is really what makes all this work, and you’ll impress the snot (ew) out of your friends when you lie and tell them the dressing was really hard…it’s not. Continue reading