I'm updating my blog, its a christmas miracle!

I love pork. I love it so much. I prepared roasted pork short ribs in sherry/wine with potatoes, yams and carrots. So tasty, I really love pork.

Yes, I just did that

I had spare beer/vodka batter so for fun I deep-fried some freakin' hotdogs! Deep frying is a blast, I can totally relate to why people deep-fry their cheesecake and snickers bar now. That being said the real treat tonight was my Fish n Chips! The chips took approx 2 hours to complete. I boiled them and gave them a double fry to reduce their moisture content, creating an extra crispy chip. I used fresh cod as my fish. The batter was a simple mixture of equal parts rice and white flour with equal parts lager and vodka.

I went French, will I ever go back?

I was served a bowl of vichyssoise two summers ago during summerlicious. The closest I had ever been to tasting chilled soup previous to that was pouring milk or fruit soda into the soups my Grandma made me everyday as a kid. Not surprisingly it didn't taste that well and I stopped soon after starting. The point is that chilled soup, is something different, away from the norm that I had associated with soups. I was able to share that experience when I made vichyssoise for my family last night. Even my sister had a bit, reluctantly.

There was nothing overly complicated with the preparation, but damn was there flavour. I let it sit in the fridge for two nights before serving, it really does get better with time.

*Big thanks to Jel, for providing me with a really amazing cookbook, I obtained the recipe to make this soup from it.

Week 3 and a very long bit

I had a couple of great sirloin steaks left over from our family dinner over the weekend. I decided on making some steak sandwiches for Auri and I on her day off. I sautéed some peppers and onions with some Portuguese bacon, along with the steak slices before piling it all on a nice slab of pita bread. I topped off the sandwich with a serious amount of blue cheese and mozzarella on top of tomatoes, and put it in the oven for a couple of minutes. My god was it good.

Week 2 and a bit

I decided upon Fried Chicken for this weeks dish. Gotta say it was one of the simplest things I've ever made and one of the tastiest. All I did was leave the chicken overnight in the flavoring liquid I made. Before frying I applied an assortment of spices before coating with flour. 30 minutes later I had some of the best crispy fried chicken I've had without the 1 inch layer of skin found in the KFC variation.

Week 1: Pretzels

Every week I'll be posting something new that I've made. This week its pretzels! Little interesting piece of information about making pretzels is that before baking, you quickly run them through a bathe of boiling water mixed with baking soda. This allows for them to brown quickly.

They were very tasty in my opinion, but next time I'm defiantly going to jazz them up a bit.

Waking up from hibernation

*I beg forgiveness for how the picture's are shown, I'll be resizing them from now on

Thanks to my cousin I have decided to rededicate myself to updating my blog on a regular basis. After all as she put it "do you not eat every day?".
My mother turned 54 this Tuesday. I made a simple pea soup for the occasion.

I just boiled the pea's seasoned with some salt and blended them down.

Added some Portuguese bacon and bam its done.
I was extremely pleased with how it came out and it only took 20 minutes or so to prepare.

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I dined at Little Anthony's tonight with Jamie. A pleasant Italian restaurant right off Osgood station. Both of us were really impressed with the decor, and we were seated within 10 minutes. Here's a breakdown of what we ordered.
Miguel: Bean soup-->Chicken Ravioli-->Blueberry yogurt cheesecake
Jamie: Salad--->Arctic Char--->Chocolate Tarte

Jamie and I both agreed that I ordered the far superior main course with the chicken ravioli, but she had a slight edge with her chocolate tarte. It was a really good time, we were there for over 2 hours and it felt like less then 1. Service was efficient and quick but felt a little to prompt. The food was simple, and good, exactly what I'd expect from a cozy Italian restaurant.