Fun Family Food

        V and Matt came for the weekend, to see Zanni's play, and also to cook a family feast.  When V and M cook a meal, they do not just cook a nice meal, they do a really fancy, complicated cooking adventure!  The advantage is that it is usually delicious, and unusual.  The disadvantage is that it takes a really long time!  It was all absolutely scrumptious.  The entire adventure, I do believe, involved the use of every bowl, knife, pot, pan, and utensil I own  (and I have quite a few!).

        For the family dinner,  they prepared stuffed pork chops.  The stuffing was made with spinach, mozzarella cheese, bacon, etc.  Then there was lobster and mushroom risotto.   Risotto requires  the absorption of a great deal of liquid.  Some of the "liquid" was made using the lobster shells for the stock, and also rehydrated porcini mushrooms.  I didn't see it happen (because we were at church), but somewhere along the way, they cooked a couple of lobster tails. There was roasted asparagus for a vegetable and a green salad.

    Then there was dessert, two kinds.  The first kind was cinnamon and sugar pastry sticks with two dipping sauces--one a lemon curd, and the other a chocolate and peanut butter mix (Gerry's favorite.)  These were made with philo dough, I believe.  The second dessert-- small custard and pastry cups!

 Following coffee and dessert, the younger folks  (V and M, Emma and Sadie) played a rousing game of hide and seek.   Matt is especially good at hiding.

It was a weekend of fun, food, family---the feast of stuff from which the best of life is made.