MG's birthday meal

MG's Birthday bash. Well, to the left is one of the pizzas: roasted garlic with spinach from the garden, some porcini mushrooms, parm and mozzarella. Crust was flavored with a bit of honey and some parm. Big hit with Nathaniel, who had three slices (!).

The one in the middle is buffalo chicken pizza with some homemade tomato pizza sauce, scallions, jack, cheddar and mozz cheeses and an herb and parm crust. The person pictured (as opposed to food) is the birthday gal.

Florida food

Haven't written to the blog in a long while and there has been lots of cooking and baking in-between. In fact, these pics are from back in June when I went to Florida to present a worshop at a conference and then visit my folks. Let's see, we have wild mushroom quiche with Gruyere and Parm, with an herb crust, then bacon, scallion, herbs and parm mini frittatas, and some chicken cacciatore with wild mushrooms, and an assortment of olives, capers, etc. All in a day's work. Also convinced Mom to buy a microplane zester. Yay! Love cooking at their house--calphalon, and le crueset cookware--what fun.