An awsome blue salad

Everybody knows that i'm a kitchen hog. I'm always so excited to cook something, that i'll have all our meals figured out way ahead of time. Anyway, Stacy decided to take the reigns this Saturday by kicking me out of the kitchen so she could make dinner for once. (Lucky me!!!!) She picked out some of the best ingredients from the Ann Arbor Farmers Market and made a wonderful salad by mixing butter, oak leaf, and red lettuce and topping it with candied walnuts, fresh blue berries, and rouge river blue cheese (WOW, the best blue i've ever had) from Zingermans. Oh so good!!!

We had our salad with a beautiful bottle from everyday wines.

Finally, we went to my friend's three year old birthday party this Sunday, and they had a crazy sugary pack of cupcakes out for all the kids. I gotta say, on a nice summer Sunday, with a couple beers, it actually made some good eats. Unfortunately all the kids were bouncing off the walls...

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Sharing some love!

I'm so very happy to hear that so many of you enjoy my little adventure. A few of you have mentioned that I should post the recipes, so i'm here to spread the love. Thanks again for reading, and come back soon!!!
Roasted Bone Marrow, with cilantro salad.
I got this recipe from Fergus Henderson on the web:

Ingredients
5-7 Beef or Veal Bones sliced 3 to 4 inches long.
1 pinch Coarse Sea Salt
1 small handful Cilantro finely chopped
1 tsp Capers
2 tbsp Olive Oil
1 finely chopped Shallots.
One Baguette sliced and toasted

Put the Bones in a 400 degree oven. Roast for 20-30 minutes until the tops are nice and brown. Keep a close eye so the marrow doesn't render out too much.

The Cilartro Salad is made by combining the other ingrediates.

To eat, Slather a healthy portion of marrow on a slice of baguette and then add the the cilantro salad on top. I then add a little sprinkle of extra salt on top and eat! It's even kind of good for you!

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Le Doggy

Anybody who knows me well knows that I'm soup crazy.  I love soup.  All kinds of soup.  Well today, after dodging some rain at the Ann Arbor Farmers Market (weekly fresh veggies...) we bee lined it to our favorite soup shack, the a2 institution, Le Dog.  Now i've loved Le Dog for a long time.  I still remember my first time when a girl in college took me there on a date.  That was 10 years ago, but unlike the girl, it started a long love affair with some serious soup!

It's funny that for a dog place, i'm not a big fan of their hot dogs.  (Goto Red Hot Lovers for that...)  But everybody in Ann Arbor knows that the thing to get is the Lobster Bisque.  It's a wonderful orange color, and is lush and decadent, and really wonderful on a rainy day.   The best part is the huge chunks of lobster lurking around on the bottom.  Just note that Le Dog is open only for lunch mon-sat, and the bisque is only available Friday and Saturday.

Stacy was in the mood for something different, and boy were we lucky.  She picked the Marrakesh Stew.  It had lentils, chick peas, capers, olives, and a curry seasoning which made it spicy and rich.

Le Dog
306 S Main St
Ann Arbor, MI 48104
(734) 327-0091

original location
410 E Liberty St 
Ann Arbor, MI  
(734) 665-2114  

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Starting with a Heart Attack

Hi everybody, this is a blog of all my food adventures. We'll have visits to some of my favorite restaurants and shots of some of my best recipes. So stay tuned. To start off, i've been wanting to try roasted bone marrow ever since I saw Anthony Bourdain eat it on TV. (like everybody else.) Well, slather the gooey center with a cilantro olive oil and caper salad, and you get some amazing flava.

Oh, and we got to make another old favorite from italy. Deep fried, battered, squash flowers stuffed with aged provolone cheese. Sigh. Yum.

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