The most remarkable thing about this past weekend wasn't (believe it or not) the Super Bowl. It was all the great food we cooked, which seems fitting since Super Bowl Sunday is second only to Thanksgiving day in the amount of food people consume.
Friday night, Katie came over, and we made baked tilapia with a fish rub, baked potatoes with butter, sour cream and chives, and steamed broccoli. Basic, but oh so tasty.
Saturday morning, Kevin and I made fried eggs, shredded potatoes, veggie sausage (it's good, I swear) and blueberry muffins, and somehow got sucked into watching the Food Network. Even after our big breakfast, we were drooling over the dishes they cooked up! We needed to go grocery shopping, so we decided to make a big dinner and picked out all new recipes before we hit Kroger. Our dinner turned out amazing, and it sounds a lot more difficult and fancy than it really was.
We had arugula (a peppery salad green) with a lemon vinagrette and fried gorgonzola cheese balls, spinach and chive linguini with a light cheese sauce tossed with arugula, and sauteed shrimp tossed with pesto and mint. We drank the small bottle of Chianti we bought in Italy with dinner, then had some limoncello we bought in Italy after dinner. We rounded out the night with floats made from vanilla ice cream, cream soda, coffee liquor (homemade by my friend Megan!) and amarreto. We actually ate at the dining room table, then I proceeded to fall into a deep food and drink coma.
To balance the sophistication of Saturday night's meal, Kevin cooked up some vegetarian Skyline chili cheese coneys Sunday night for the game, complete with oyster crackers and hot sauce (you Skyline junkies know what I'm talking about!) and root beer.
Sometimes when you plan to make a big meal in advance, you anticipate it so much that it's a bit of a letdown if it doesn't turn out perfect. So when it's spur of the moment and tastes fantastic, it's even more of a treat. Buon appetito!
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YUM! Lemoncello!
That's right--we rocked the limoncello at Dad's anniversary party with that guy from England! Kevin and I were talking about making some. I don't think it would be too hard--just takes a long time.
Every year, Steve's cousin and her husband go to Italy for two weeks. Her husband is a creative director at Saatchi and a talented photographer. He loves to photograph the food and beverages in Italy. In fact, he took the most amazing picture of probably 100 or more limoncello bottles on display. It's a HUGE photo that hangs in their powder room. (I always admire it when I'm in there! LOL)
Actually, they take and hang lots of pictures of their Italy meals. With his touch, it makes for very cool (and very personalized) art. I haven't tried this myself, as I don't believe anyone would be interested in photos of tuna melts and tomato soup! :-P
Susan,
I'm very jealous of Steve's cousin!
And I'm sure the right photographer could make even tuna melts and tomato soup look extraordinary. There's something very comforting about looking at comfort foods like that!
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