Potato and Mushroom Gratin - Falling Into You

What a perfect day for this! Rainy and cold, this dish lit up our evening! Sliced new potatos, pan fried mushrooms

A sauce made from cream, rosemary, and pepper. Layer it in a pan with parmesan and cheddar.

Bake with foil on top for 45, then remove foil and let brown nice and crisp. YUM. Heated me up through and through.

Cooking/Prep Time: 1hr
Song: Falling Into You - Sugarland

Activities during cooking: Discussing Veronica Mars

Lox Cornmeal Crepes - In Pieces

Usually we only eat crepes as a dessert, with a ton of ice cream and chocolate sauce. Tonight we decided to try something different. I say 'we' but please read 'me'.

Cornmeal and rice flour crepes are easy to make! Cornmeal, rice flour, eggs, honey, milk and a bit of butter. Fry them up and YUM.

I filled them with herb cream cheese, lox, avacado and capers. Let me tell you, delicious!!

Cooking/Prep Time: 0.45hr

Song: In Pieces - Linkin Park

Activities during cooking: Ipod

Polenta Pizza Surprise - Teardrop

A fantastic gluten-free alternative to pizza dough (not that there aren't great mixes on the market, believe me we have a doozy in our cupboard) that's easy and makes really great mini pizzas....POLENTA! It's something new we've recently discovered and often wonder "why didn't we find this before??"

Polenta, in case you also are in the dark, is a sausage looking cornmeal substance that comes in many flavors (garlic, peppers etc) and can be sliced and used in MANY dishes including things like lasagna or fries. Look for it at the grocery store. Apparently it's been there all along!

For the pizzas we sliced the polenta, stacked them with our fav toppings, and cooked for 10 minutes. instant YUM.

Cooking/Prep Time: 0.15hr
Song: Teardrop - Massive Attack
Activities during cooking: Watching the Listener

Shish Ka Bobs - In Between

Easier than they look!

I chopped up some veggies into big chunks, marinated for an hour in a honey garlic sauce (VH-all celiac friendly!) with pepper and salt.




Then, stuck them on skewers and cooked at 325'c for 20 minutes. YUM.

Cooking/Prep Time: 0.35hr
Song: Linkin Park - In Between
Activities during cooking: Watching my sis babysit on the trampoline.

Hablano Peppers - Love In One Shot

Easy, spicey, delicious! Grab a bunch of fresh Hablano peppers from the grocer, along with some cheese (fancy cheese is nice!) and a regular pepper. Chop up the cheese into cubes and dice the pepper. (And any other veg you think would be good. Mushroom are sometimes a good idea!

Slice the peppers along the top, then disect it along it's middle. (See pic) Pull it gently apart and cut out the middle and seeds. Then stuff with cheese, veg, a little bit of spice (I used cajun) and VOILA.

Cooking/Prep Time: 0.35hr

Song: Love In One Shot -The Higgins

Activities during cooking: Talking about work

A Great Review!

Woke up this morning to Peter Broderick "The Path to Recovery" on my i-touch, and a nice surprise in my mailbox! Kebabs, kahwa and more did a really nice review on our blog! I have to say, I'm really liking his blog as well! Great pics, nice variety and witty commentary. Enjoy!