Tonight I made an impromptu dinner out of ingredients found in our kitchen. I had purchased some asparagus for Easter ambitiously thinking that I might be ready to cook in our kitchen for Easter Sunday. Let's be real...Ha!
Anyway, I had some fresh and tasty looking asparagus - so I roasted it in the oven using PW's recipe.
While unpacking the kitchen I rediscovered our boxes of Penzey spices, so I used the Jamiacan Jerk seasoning on some chicken breasts. Tasty!
And finally, we needed dessert! It had been a long time since we had baked any sweets, so it was time to make Sue's Brownies. Yummy if I must say so (I don't have to though - Bryan will agree!)
This time we made a substitution for the Hershey's cocoa and used - another of our Penzey collection - NATURAL HIGH FAT COCOA. Who knew? And, I offer - how can natural high fat cocoa be a bad thing in a dessert? I submit to you that it is absolutely not a bad thing, and might actually be a wee bit sinful. We will need to add more of this to our baking goods collection.
Out of everything accomplished in the kitchen last night, I think Bryan was most excited that he got to use the high power tool of our kitchen - the KitchenAid Professional Mixer. Yowsa, this thing has some power!
Now, on to plan dinner for tomorrow night - any ideas?
3 comments:
Send me Brownies. please?
I am in love with my mixer and am wondering how best to store it in our new. much smaller kitchen. any thoughts?
Erin, perhaps you will need to convert an extra linen/hall closet to a kitchen pantry. If this is possible, it would be a great place to keep the mixer.
I looooove asparagus. Favorite food by far. Grilling Brussel sprouts with olive oil, salt, pepper is delicious ( and way different than boiling/steaming them, there's no gross stench!). I also love popping chopped up sweet potatoes in the oven for a while with carrots, zucchini, and squash!
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