Friday, June 6, 2008

Well today is Friday it is our favorite day because Chris goes to school in the morning and then he comes home and we hang out all day. I always have Fridays off which is awesome. Today is also Chris' last day of economics. YEAH! Next week he will start Math. YUCK! However on the bright side we have one week left until we move. We haven't started packing yet because if we do then we pull everything out of the closets, put them in boxes and then they are in the middle of the floor. Ken and Deb beware... it will be a disaster when you get here.
We have a fun kitchen store here in Logan called Love to Cook at Kitchen Kneads and they offer cooking classes. Last night I talked Chris in to going with me because it was taught by the owner of Callaways, which by the way is the best Italian restaurant in the world. We learned how to make several mother sauces and how to mix them to make their recipes that they use in the restaurant.

Here is their Alfredo sauce- 1 cup heavy cream, 1 stick unsalted butter, 2 cups parmesan cheese, 1/8 teas pepper, 1 pinch of nutmeg and the secret ingredient is a few drops of lemon juice. Reduce cream over medium heat. Add butter, will incorporate. Add parm, pepper, nutmeg. cook until smooth.

Now if you like spicy here it is. Red Gravy. Your can put this on anything from pasta to potatoes and roast meat with it, what ever.
1 cup olive oil, 20 cloves of garlic, cut lengthwise, 6 bay leaves, 2 cups chopped onions, 6 cups chicken stock, 6 cups tomato sauce, 2 T minced garlic, 4 tsp salt, 2 T cayenne, 2 tsp basil, 2 dried thyme, 1 tsp white and black pepper.
Place oil, garlic, and 4 bay leaves in a 4 qt pot sauce pan over med heat; brown garlic on both sides 2-3 min. Stirring constantly, don't burn. remove garlic add onion and saute until onion starts to turn brown 6-8 min. Stirring, Add remaining ingredients except tomato sauce and reduce by half. Then add tomato and simmer for 20-30 min. This will have a kick.

Add equal parts of alfredo and red gray and you get santa fe pasta

Hope everyone enjoys these recipes.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

O'my gosh I'm so glad you found me. I'm not very good at bloging but I need to get better at it. How the heck are you guys. Your dad told me you guys found a house!! That is so great.

Tona said...

Hi You guys!! I decided to sit down & update my own blog, but I always read my posts first. I saw that you added a picture to yours, and then noticed that you set up your own blog!! Cool for you! You are so clever on the computer. I don't even know how to change the colors or add pictures or MUSIC! Your blog ROCKS!! You'll have to help me with mine.. So you're still in Logan, (hope you got the text I sent you on your birthday) Still working for the same dentist?? Any new additions to your family??? Or someday soon? Thats cool that you'll be house sitting..FREE RENT? I hope. Its so good to talk (well type) to you. I miss you. I NEVER go to the gym anymore. I thought about starting up at that place you went to, curves.. I don't know, I'm too LAZY! Love you, Tona