We've Been Eating... I Swear

I just haven't gotten around to posting anything in a while. After a bit of chastising (I'm looking at you Rachel...) I've finally gotten around to posting a few of the pictures we've taken.

Roasted Pepper and Goat Cheese Dip

Recipe Here

Now, I don't have a lot of pictures of this for some reason. Probably because Jody was busy making salad and she takes most of the pictures.


The two grey looking things were actually purple peppers before they went in the oven. For some reason all the purple just disappeared. The other one is just a regular red pepper from the Farmer's Market. The sour cream was replaced with plain yogurt because that's what I had sitting around. I had some herbed goat cheese left over and it was delicious. Unfortunately, the peppers were really mild so it ended up tasting mostly like a goat cheese dip. This isn't really a problem for me.

Here's the final product being judged by my parents' cat Sasha. I think she approved. Not that it really mattered.

Also pictured is the delicious tomato salad that Jody made for us. While we were at the Farmer's Market we found the cutest tomatoes ever. Zebra tomatoes.

That's some adorable produce right there. Add some mini bocconcini, a bit of olive oil and some of the awesome balsamic vinegar my parents brought from Italy and you get...

An amazing salad. The tomatoes were a little on the firm side. They weren't under ripe. Just put up a little more resistance than your average Safeway tomato. But my god were they ever tasty.

Last Night

After a short trip to Edmonton I wasn't feeling like cooking a lot so we decided to bring back a favourite meal. The wine and cheese lunch. Well, supper in this case...

Springbank Cheese provided all of the cheese and the crackers for tonight's meal. I personally prefer Paddy's in Edmonton because they'll cut you wedges to order but the selection at Springbank is just as good and they aren't three hours away.

On the menu tonight:
- Red Dragon (Cheddar with ale and mustard seeds)
- Monterey jack with jalepeno
- Bonaparte triple cream brie
- rosemary almond cranberry crackers
- whole wheat French bread
- apple and pepper slices
- Pelee Island Winery's pinot grigio

Some pictures:

This is my favourite knife (a Christmas present from Jody) and one of my favourite cheeses (the Red Dragon). However, the knife is completely useless for cutting cheese. May have to invest in a proper cheese knife some day.

Jody described this as "A brie the size of your head!"

Weshy decided he had to observe everything I did. He also decided he had to sample the cheese and had to be kicked off the counter several times.


This is the final layout.
My quick attempt at a visually pleasing presentation.

And bread. Not pictured is the olive oil and balsamic vinegar we were using to dip the bread.

I can not stress how good the brie was on those crackers. It's like the almighty cheese gods set out to perfect a pairing for our supper. I will be having that for snacks until I run out of cheese.

Tonight I'm making risotto. So look for pictures from that in another month or so.