Friday's Favorite Things

Hello, dear friends.  Happy Fool's Day!  Although I didn't do much this week, it still managed to fly by.

Here are a few favorite things that are hitting my radar.

one

This is a first on the blog.  If you read my posts regularly, you know that the Mister loves to cook.  As a matter of a fact, he went to school for it and even made a career out of it.  That being said, I am a very lucky lady.  We love to entertain, and I never have to worry about the menu.

Although the Mister loves to peruse cookbooks, I have never seen him use one in the kitchen.  Also, I have never seen him use any sort of measuring device.  So when I post pics of his plates, and you ask for recipes he usually tells me that he doesn't use a recipe.

Our last dinner party the Mister made one of my favorite things -  Feta and Olive Bread Pudding.  Many of my readers asked for the recipe.  After much whining, pestering, and bargaining, I finally got the Mister to sit down and write the recipe.  

Hope you appreciate it.  

I gave up the TV remote control for four weeks.

Good bye Real Housewives...

Hello war movies.

Feta & Olive Bread Pudding

6 portions:

·       1-loaf of artisan ciabatta

·       1 cup olive tapenade

o   Optional chopped dried figs to replace olive tapenade

·       8oz crumbled feta

·       6 oz diced pancetta

·       Chopped fresh rosemary

·       4 whole eggs

·       2 egg yolks

·       1.5 pt half &half

·       TT salt and fresh ground black pepper

·       Optional ingredients

o   Diced artichoke hearts

o   Sun dried tomatoes

Preheat oven to 325 degrees

Dice ciabatta and mix with feta, olive tapenade, pancetta and rosemary, and place in buttered casserole to top.

Place eggs and yolks in a blender, add half and half blend on low speed till just until mixed, allow to rest 5 minutes to remove air bubbles. 

Place casseroles in a pan with 2-inch sides and add water half way up the casserole dish

Add blended egg and half and half to the top of the casserole

Bake for 30 to 40 minutes depending on the size of the casserole used.

two

I have always been a huuuuuuge fan of Nora Ephron's.  Her son wrote and produced this no holds barred documentary.  There are interviews with everyone from Meryl Streep to candid words from her family members.  It captures Ephron's tough-as-steel work ethic as well as her cutting wit.  I liked it so much that I'm thinking about watching it again.

three

My third favorite thing is Grammarly.  This website acts as my editor and corrects most of my typos.  This is what I mean.   The Mister gave me a copy of the above recipe.  He can cook, but he cannot spell to save his life.  I was hurried to put the Anatomy of a Dinner Party post on and thought I corrected all the errors.  The day it went on I got an email from one of my favorite bloggers, Leslie Anne.  In her usual Southern lady style laced with her signature humor, she told me that I may have misspelled tapenade.  Sure enough, I read the post and saw that it was spelled TAMPONade.  Sounds yummy, doesn't it?

Back to Grammarly.  Every week I get a report card.  Sorry to say this is probably the best report card I've ever gotten.  In my life.  

Yeah!  I'm up 24% on my mistakes!!

The good thing is that I make the same mistake up to 55 times.  I told you that I was sharp.

four

The Mister brought home a tub of this deliciousness to compliment an apple tart when #1 and Adorable Jonathon were visiting.  This gelato should be classified as a drug.    After my first bite, I practically started crying.  Words cannot express that heavenly moment of the first spoonful.  Or the last.

This is what happened within 20 seconds of entering our house.  The poor tub never even made it to the freezer! 

Have a great weekend!

Until next time...

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