Friday, August 8, 2008

Playing catch up...



Although I failed to take pictures of some recent triumphs - our housewarming barbecue, poached halibut with mango slaw and avocado mash, grilled chicken with grilled stone fruits to name a few - here are some recent edible adventures...

Eric wanted a poppy-seed cake for his birthday, so I adapted my old friend Teddy's apple cake and made this nectarine poppy seed cake, replacing apples and walnuts with nectarines and poppy seeds. the blackberries on top were picked from Eric and Ariel's backyard!

The birthday boy blowing out the candles. I was pleased enough with this new version of the old standard that I made it again for my snack day in my Curriculum and Instruction class...



In our unpacking days, Daniel chows down on sushi. This is not from the place we've since settled on as ours, but they did have these really strange seaweed salad rolls...




Another snack for class - these were blueberry, lime, coconut pound cake muffins. They went over quite nicely...


Not my favorite of recent green market based meals, but not bad. This was poached chicken with blackberry relish; a rocket, avocado and heirloom tomato salad; and at Daniel's request Israeli couscous. Nice colors I think.

The View from Mountain View


Yes, it's been an awfully long time since I last posted, and much has changed. There was an extended period of living out of a suitcase, followed by an even more extended period of unpacking said suitcases and getting set-up.

We're now more or less there, although my desk chair is still not built. (Ahem, Daniel...) I've eased my way back into cooking and baking. Some highlights to come in a subsequent post. And we're slowly beginning to explore the culinary offerings of the Peninsula region. So far, we have a favorite burrito place, some solid Thai, and a fix for our once a week sushi habit that is luckily within walking distance. I'll report more as we find it.

So a quick tour of the kitchen, and then I'll do a little catch up slide show in the next post.



Yep, that's a dish washer, folks. And we've got a garbage disposal too. Some of the few perks of living in the suburbs.



Our strange electric range. I miss my Brooklyn gas stove very much. I like the electric oven though...


A wider view. This floor is incredibly difficult to keep clean.



A sampling of the bounty from the Mountain View green market. The one really ENORMOUS perk of living out here.