Recovering

Hello, all!  Sorry for the lapse in posting.  Tom and I have been away since Thursday.  We went to the Finger Lakes and bought a TON of wine.  If you haven't been there, I highly recommend it.  Be prepared to spend money if you like wine.....some of them you taste and you just have to have them!  Anyways, we came home with 2 cases of wine.  We went with Tom's sister, Kathryn and her fiance, Mike to get wine for their wedding.  I am excited to drink it! :)  We also got a few different cheeses that I am excited to cook with!

We then went to the Poconos and had planned on hiking and doing some water sports.  It was chilly and rainy, so we didnt get to get in the water, but we did get a hike in.  They had some really cool waterfalls and dams.  It started pouring as soon as we got to our car, so I would say it was good timing!

We stayed near the town of Jim Thorpe, PA, which is a really cool town!  We ate at this place called Flow.  It is a restaurant built on top of a natural stream...you can see it through the glass floor and window.  I tried to get a picture, but it didn't come out!  I had quail with quinoa and a raspberry coulis.  I plan to try to replicate some raspberry coulis once we go raspberry picking at Reilly's.  I hadnt had quail before, but it was pretty good.....similar to chicken!  Tom had scallops with a carrot ginger puree over top of lentils.  He liked it!  I might fuse our dishes and do scallops with raspberry coulis!

 

In more exciting news, we get our first CSA box on Thursday!  It will have peaches, nectarines, tomatoes, cantaloupe,  cucumber, green pepper, plums, and sweet corn in it.  And that is the SMALL box!  Here are my plans for the upcoming days:

- grass-fed beef homemade sloppy joes

- Cucumber Salad (for our family reunion on Sunday)

- Peach and Plum cobbler

- Caprese Bread Salad

- Venison burgers filled with garlic cheese (from Finger Lakes) with sweet corn on the cob

Stay tuned!!  I'll get cooking soon!