I've been trying to catch up from the chaos that has been the last 2 months. Mike and I, as of this weekend, have been gone for 7 weeks straight with two exceptions. One weekend we were home and Mike's parents were visiting and this weekend I am home and Mike is gone. Craziness... Amidst all of the things we've done, we succeeded at the DALMAC. It was absolutely exhilarating and we are all in favor of repeating the journey next year. But maybe on a different route. The east route rather than the west. A full narrative is yet to come.
Mike left yesterday to go on his annual golf vacation with some of his college buddies. I took full advantage of it and lingered in the kitchen all night. It was wonderful. It's amazing how I am at my most relaxed in my kitchen. I took the wonderful cookbook that Kate got me for Christmas, The Silver Palette Cookbook, and opened it up randomly. I landed on a White Bean and Sausage Soup. It's delicious. I'm still licking my lips after eating a bit more of it for lunch today. I will say that it was a little arduous for a normal weeknight. This may be something more for a lazy Saturday or a Sunday early evening meal. But, seeing as Mike wasn't home professing how hungry he was and hurrying me along, I took my time and made the soup to recipe. I was also making ice cream and cleaning the kitchen at the same time. I cleaned and organized my freezer upstairs and when I looked into it this morning... it made me smile. I love when all the frozen food products are organized by type and placed on the shelves accordingly. I took some things to the chest freezer and brought some things back up. It will be nice not to have to run downstairs to find something when I would like to have it defrosting already. Ice cream making was an absolute success and I needed it after a certain incident...
Well there were actually two incidents, that I had the last time I was making ice cream. We won't get into the details, but it has to do with trying to be an over-achiever and Walker proclaimed that I was very angry after said incidents. A lesson that I oft learn, I need to focus more! Regardless, the mint chocolate chip on special request from my lady Sagemans looks gorgeous and is very tasty too. I made chocolate in a gelato style and added in some chocolate chunks before going into the deep freeze. Since quality control is very important, I tested it as well and it was great. The one thing I forgot was to strain the mint chocolate chip. I distracted myself by wanting to make sure I got it into the ice cream maker asap and left out that important step. Hopefully, it won't be a fatal mistake. I had a caramel once that I didn't strain and definitely regretted.
Today, I'm enamored with ice cream and absolutely was drooling when I found David Lebovitz's blog, while searching for interesting ice cream recipes. I think I covet his job/life currently. I know it is a sin to covet, but seriously?? Living in France, Paris to be exact... testing recipes, writing recipes and cookbooks... milling about the countryside eating with friends. Dreamy... Oh crap, I'm realizing now that I've spent way too much time dreaming about cooking and I better wake up from my fantasies and get back to work on real estate!! Ugh.
Maybe his life isn't that terrific really...
Who am I kidding? It's the image I have in my dreams and I like that image. I'm going to continue to pretend that life really is perfectly dreamy like that for someone and could be one day for me too...
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