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Sunday, April 24, 2011

New recipe, April 24,2011

Well, it's Easter, so dinner was a group effort among the Groshek and Burns clans. We had a lovely roasted leg of lamb, ham, and asparagus with brown butter and balsamic vinegar. Our contribution was Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter and Scallions (which we have made before), and Roasted Radishes with Brown Butter and Lemon Juice, which was new. Roasted radishes have a much mellower flavor than raw, more like a turnip in some ways than a radish. It was a nice dish with the lamb.

We did have dessert too--an egg shaped cake with strawberry filling made by my niece Julia, and a wonderful flan made my my cousin Pete's wife Julie. It was all wonderful--it's a good thing it only comes once a year!

Monday, March 28, 2011

March 26, 2011 new recipes

Since tonight was Carl's birthday (55!!), everything was new! The main dish was Duck Scallopine with Green Apples and Malavasia from Mario Batali's Molto Italiano (sorry, I can't find a link online!). I served it with Mashed Potatoes with Brown Butter and Scallions from Epicurious.com, and Mario's Spiced Cabbage from Lake Garda (sorry, also no recipe on line!), though I did it with red cabbage, since that is what we had. Though each of these was delicious, the cabbage was a tad too spicy for the relative sweetness of the main course. The potatoes were fabulous with the duck!

The wine was 2008 Sciarpa Montepulciano d'Abruzzo, which complemented everything very well.

We had dessert with a Clairette de Die--Molten Chocolate Cake with Cherries from Epicurious.com. Dirty little secret--molten chocolate cake is insanely easy to make. Try this!!