Eating well in Southern Maryland

Delmonico Steakhouse June 2009

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Oh Delmonico, we had such high hopes for you and you let us down gloriously.  I wish we had opted to eat at B&B Ristorante across the hallway instead of using up a precious meal at Delmonico.   

Lance and I had the pleasure of eating at Emeril’s Tchoup Chop in Orlando back in early 2007.  We’d both been pleased with our meals and I figured we’d get another great meal at Emeril’s Delmonico Steakhouse while we were in Vegas.  

At the start of the meal, our servers introduced themselves, we requested our typical glasses of water, and proceeded to peruse the menu.  Everything was off to a good start and we ordered our salads, steaks, and sides.  Sides are served family style and sized to feed 2-3 people.  

Tomato SaladI started my meal with the vine ripened heirloom tomato salad with red onion, mozzarella cheese, extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar.  When tomatoes are in season, I just can’t get enough of them so tomatoes tend to be my standard first course in some form.  The salad was delicious if a little bit drippy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Local Food 11/21/2009

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Saturday was the last weekend for our market.  They will be open noon-4pm on Wednesday to sell baked goods and last minute vegetables for the holiday, but then it’s oven until May.  Sigh.  

Veggies!
Since I was worried about being able to fit everything for Thanksgiving into my fridge already, I restricted myself to buying things that I actually needed for the week instead of my usual craziness and experimentation.  I got a dozen eggs for various baked goods, gala apples for stuffing/dressing, broccoli for the loaded baked potato soup, and potatoes for the soup and mashed potatoes.  

And, yes, I did manage to fit everything into the fridge after grocery shopping today.  Phew!  (Well, I did have to put some stuff into Lance’s Pepsi fridge…)

 

Menu 12/27/2009

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1. Out of town
2. Slow Cooker BBQ Shredded Beef Sandwiches w/ Crunchy Potato Wedges
3. Pepper-Crusted Pork Loin w/ Best Potluck Macaroni and Cheese
4. Sautéed Chicken with Pesto-Mushroom Cream Sauce w/ Roasted Potatoes
5. Crispy Garlic Chicken Cutlets w/ Crash Hot Potatoes
6. Sesame Chicken with Garlic Sauce and Broccoli w/ rice
7. Game Day – cheese balls w/ crackers, ham w/ Green Bean Casserole from Scratch w/ Pineapple Stuffing, Tunnel of Fudge Cake

Apparently this is the week of potatoes!  I never intend for things to happen this way, but it often seems like I’ll plan the week’s meals and then notice we’re having pasta every day, or that five nights use chicken, or, in this case, lots of potatoes.  Thankfully we all like these things, so it’s all good!  

I have found myself in an interesting position with recipes.  Since I started this blog in May I have gone through most all of my pre-blog recipes.  I think I’ve got 10-20 recipes left in my collection that I’ve yet to write about.  This means that I’m able to turn to my cookbooks and the internet more and more to find new recipes to try and post, something I find very exciting!  

This week I turned to the Cook’s Country 2007 Annual for inspiration and recipes from that tome are featured in meals 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6.  The 7th meal is Game Day and I’m planning a Ham Feast to celebrate the New Year!  

In non-menu news, Art is working on a very exciting addition to the blog this week, so keep your eyes peeled :)

 

11/29/2009 News

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I have finally implemented tags again!  You will notice that every recipe and market post now has a list of tags at the bottom, if you click on one of these, it will take you to a list of all of the recipe and market posts that share the same ingredient.  

I have chosen not to include tags for salt, pepper, water, butter, most oils, and various other peppers because those things are ubiquitous.  

You will also notice a list of tags in the bottom left hand corner of the site.  At the moment, these represent the 50 most recently added tags.  

I hope that you all find this feature useful!  As always, I welcome any and all feedback.  

And, in other news, Thanksgiving was a success!  Pictures have been added to all of the Thanksgiving recipes and we will be enjoying leftovers for the rest of the week.  

The market season has also ended so market posts will resume in May 2010. 
 

Holiday Cookies 2010

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At the end of 2008 I had the brilliant idea to send out cookies to a few friends for the holidays.  The cookies were well received and, since I don’t bake that often, I enjoyed having an excuse/reason to do a lot of baking without the problem of then wanting to do a lot of eating. 

I wanted to do the same thing at the end of 2009 but the year got away from me and I just ran out of time.  After Christmas I had the somewhat less than brilliant idea that I should bake and send cookies to significantly more people.  In fact, I should send cookies to friends and family all over the US!  With the help of Art and Lance, I compiled my list, noting how many people were in each household I wanted to gift.  The list quickly grew to over 100.  Ack. 

Then, continuing in my not so brilliance, I decided that I should bake 10 different types of cookies.  10 is a nice, round number you see.  I went through my recipes, asked a few people for advice, and came up with the following list as a good mix of spicy, chocolaty, and nutty. 

Anzac Biscuits
Candy Cane Cookies
Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate Mint Crinkles
Double-Chocolate Cookies
Pepparkakor (Gingerbread)
Lemon Sugar Cookies
Peanut Butter Blossoms
Pecan Powder Puffs
Snickerdoodles

And, since I’ve got to make sure that everyone gets at least one of each type, some quick math led to the realization that I would be cooking around 1000 cookies. 

1000 cookies. 

I’m not sure I have room for that many cookies in my house!  I realized that minor detail about space after I shopped for all of the ingredients, though, so I’m now committed to this course of insanity. 

Behold, the ingredients required to cook 1000 cookies. 

Baking supplies

 
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