Acorn Squash and Mushrooms
I realize it has been a long time since either of us made a post. Life, school and work got in the way. I cooked something the other day and this time remembered to take out my camera and capture the moment! I believe the acorn squash was grown in my family’s vegetable garden this summer! Fall is the season for sqaush. Even though, I just had the same kind of squash for thanksgiving this year. I am not sick of it yet. I also had some mushrooms sitting around in the fridge for a while. I originally intended to use them in my daily sandwich making, but each day I ran out the door of my place with a cream cheese bagel in hand. With extra turkey left over from thanksgiving and no other side dishes , I decided to take a big step and make them myself. Since the start of the school year, I have not been cooking as regularly as the past two years. Regardless, my love for food still remains, and I hope to continue posting on here as I remember to photograph my time in the kitchen.
Wordle Fun
Last month, I (Rachel), was in the midst of my exam period. During one of my breaks, I skyped with Andrew and he came up with this game. We each took turns saying a word and for each word we had to say the first word that we associated with it. For example, I said the word “camping”. Andrew associated it with “Algonquin” and I associated it with “Constellations”.
Then Andrew took all our word associations and put them into Wordle. The site creates a fun image with all the words you enter. You can change the colour scheme and the direction of the words if you so choose. The words are placed randomly. The image above was the first version of our word associations.
Note the placement of my name and Andrew’s name. Is wordle a fortune teller?
First day of 2011: Cupcakes and Waffles
We have started off the new year with a bang! Well, not really. More like with Waffles and french vanilla cupcakes with cream cheese icing. mmmm mmmm good. Andy and I made the cupcakes yesterday for New Years Eve. We brought them with us in a party carrier to Toni’s house for food and games (Catch Phrase and Things, to be specific). I thought maybe everyone would have 2, but alas everyone brought quite a bit of food, so some of them came back home with us.
The Waffles were made today. They were supposed to be for breakfast, but we both slept in and instead made them after breakfast. My family got a waffle maker for christmas this year and…
Ricotta and Onion Pizza
This summer my work colleagues and I came up with a brilliant idea one week to do a potluck for lunch. That was probably the second week on the job. Since then we have made it a weekly ritual. Everyone brings food on Thursday for a communal lunch and leftovers are eaten the next day. This past week we celebrated Canada Day (a long weekend), so we didn’t have a potluck. For our last potluck, I wanted to use up some ricotta cheese I had lying around. After consulting with Andrew, I came up with the idea to make pizza with ricotta cheese. After a short web search, I found a workable recipe with the ingredients I had in my fridge at the time.
Zucchini Latkes
I went home for the weekend in May and raided my family’s fridge. I came away with a few zucchini’s and a bunch of carrots. The current cookbook I am using for new recipes is ordered by vegetable. I checked under ‘Z’ for zucchini and the first recipe caught my attention. My mum used to make zucchini pancakes for our family in my childhood. I remember not being a huge fan. But then again, I wasn’t a huge fan of most vegetables when I was young.
