December 28, 2006> 1:00 AM
a cooking adventure
OK, here's another post to get that last one on down the page a bit. I was corn-fused. Anyhow, tonight was fun. With Conor staying at my parents' for a few days and the two older girls at friends' houses for the night, and Liz working, it was just me and McKenzie. So, we went to the store, did some grocery shopping for necessities plus food for our cooking adventure tonight. She wanted to make hors d'oeuvres - more like tapas, Italian style really. We got some Salami, Provolone cheese, French bread, real Mozzarella cheese, some pizza sauce, and the ingredients for some serious old-school Italian meatballs (ground beef, gr. veal and Italian sausage). The other stuff we already had at home.
We made little Salami appetizers with melted Provolone on them, tiny Pizzas, some with Pepperoni and some just cheese, and then made some homemade pasta sauce with diced tomatoes, garlic, onions, herbs, red wine, etc. We made some (the Kenz did the messy mixing - big time fun) really really good meatballs. We mostly followed Rocco's recipe but improvised a little. Yes, they turned out very good. We were impressed with ourselves.
We ate the sauce and meatballs as our main entree with some Fettuccine. And of course real Parmagiano cheese on top. We had to have dessert (so she said) so we bought some chocolate chip ice cream and McKenzie put it in Martini glasses for us. ha! Full - yeah, that would describe it. It was a good meal with my baby girl (now 11) and a fun time.
December 28, 2006
> 1:00 AM
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