On Wednesday I made panini – pesto and roasted peppers from the freezer, smoked Gouda from Farmer John via the co-op, and Tillamook cheddar & a loaf of bread from Costco.
Panini
panini
On Thursday, Spicy beef & peppers, although my perfect Japanese rice was not perfect – it stuck to the bottom of the pan. I had a heavy-bottomed sauce pan, but not cast iron like the recipe.
On Friday I made pasta pesto and rosemary focaccia – and never took pictures til the leftovers phase. I melted goat cheese into the pesto, and added a little half & half and some pasta cooking water to make it saucy.
Leftover pasta pesto
Focaccia in bad light
And chocolate peanut butter balls – to use up the all-natural peanut butter I bought to make banana bread & peanut butter sandwiches for the vegans last Saturday, that mysteriously got all hard when I added some honey & salt. I added butter and powdered sugar, and it became perfect peanut butter ball filling, and there’s only a bit left. And chocolate and fondant covered cherries, that I’d been wanting to make since I made the creme eggs. But I’m going to wait till morning to take pictures of the candies. The sink’s full of dishes and I have my hanging up to dry laundry to hang up, and I’m already tired.
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Got a second wind and got everything cleaned up – so I had that nice feeling of a tidy kitchen before I went to bed.
The peanut butter balls have a very thin coat of chocolate.
Chocolate covered peanut butter balls
I mixed a little unsweetened chocolate in with the semisweet for the cherries’ coating – so they’re darker, and the coating is thicker. I like how the cut-open ones look like googly eyes.
Chocolate covered cherries
Chocolate covered cherries
