Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Backdate: Steve's month in Berkeley
So the boy spent most of October here, and there was tons of time spent in the kitchen, on the couch, and galavanting around Berkeley and San Francisco traipsing through Farmer's markets and cute little neighbourhoods.
For Halloween, we broke out the knives and embarked on a pumpkin carving adventure (my first to be precise), and the product was Jean-Pierre the pumpkin (who was very angry about the hearts on his head), who is now decomposing somewhere in a garbage heap.
We made some ravioli from scratch (twice!). For firsts, pasta is definitely the hardest thing I've ever made (especially without a rolling pin). The dough was way too thick and our ravioli hearts were huge and really chewy. We stuffed the ravioli with mashed sweet potatoes and grated parmesan cheese, boiled and then baked with a homemade basil parsley "pesto". Yumm. The second time, we made them from wanton wrappers, stuffed with mashed potatoes, making some sort of crispy yummylicious ravioli/gnocchi hybrid.
Baking endeavours included two batches of molten lava cakes (the first one plain, the second with bananas!) which were rich and so bite-sized, and sugar cookies (we dipped the round ones in some chocolate melting in a hot water bath, which was SO good).
The boy's last saturday morning was spent writing the (wretched!) GRE. And we met in San Francisco, where it was pouring rain for most of the day (and my favourite mocassins were soaked through, though I did score a pair of sweet rainboots). We walked around the marketplace and the awesome farmer's market at the Ferry Building, where the produce and food is fresh, local, sustainable and oh-so-tasty looking.
And now, just looking forward to the end of the semester, and being able to board a plane to snowy toronto for a month of uninterrupted goodness with the boy and my much-missed lovelies.
sherry @ 4:50:00 pm
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