Liege waffles!

So I made these amazing waffles from scratch! they took almost 24 hours of prep, they call for flour, yeast, honey, 1.2 lb of butter, and the secret special ingredient where I had to go to east JEsus for is PEARL Sugar. you use 10 oz of this stuff! they are so worth it and freeze so well! except I have a warning, my family and I had this waffles last night for desert, and no one could sleep. I think it may have been all the sugar in them. well they are amazing! google any liege waffle recipe I like to look for ones with Honey in them and Vanilla and try them out yourself, you will be amazed at how good they are.

realy nice email about my quiche

Cori,
That was the sweetest gesture of thanks that I've received in twenty years of waiting tables.
I happen to adore broccoli cheddar quiche, and yours is divine.
I wish you and your boyfriend the best, and hope to see you soon.
Be well and happy,
Bill

A Mitvzah in a Quiche form

Wow I know what you guys are thinking....another quiche from Cori, well this one is extra special.

It was a completely selfish act for another nice person.

On Monday night Russ came to visit me for my documentary's broadcast debut on Oregon Lens on OPB. We were having a lot of guests over and I was pretty stressed and excited about the impending TV watching. We went out to diner for a quick bite because I didn't know if he had eaten diner and I had already started to prepare some left over's from the weekend's meals. I was just cooking some frozen spinach in garlic and pepper when he decided we should just go out to eat instead. I put everything in Tupperware and we went to Glenwood restaurant on Willamette. I enjoy this place for everything and I have a particular favorite wait staff member named Bill. Gretchen and I always seem to go there and he waits on us with a big smile and we always have lovely conversations with him. He considers us some what regular patrons and is always happy to see us.

So Russ had the chicken parmigiana which is very good there, made in a slightly healthier manner then say Olive Garden and with a twist is portobello mushrooms are added in with the chicken and sauce all served on top of some zitti. I got the lemon herb chicken which is so tasty. Its served with a creamy garlic and buttery sauce and a lemon wedge. I got mashed potatoes as a side and vegetables instead of salad or soup because I wasn't in the mood for salad or soup.

Well after this lovely quick bite and interesting conversation we checked out only to come across a small problem. Russ forgot his wallet and I had nothing with me. Well Bill was really kind and did a little like hail Mary type thing, and said it was on him tonight. I thought that was really nice of him to do, so I knew I had to return the favor some how. I thought it would be rude just to go in there and give him some money, so I thought what better way to return the nice honest gesture then with something home made. First I thought maybe some art...but then I thought I could cook him something. So I had some extra ingredients lying around and an extra pie crust and pie pan. I got some half and half down at Sundance and some eggs and whipped up a nice little Green quiche.

I thought it would be a good idea to keep it vegetarian because I wasn't sure of Bill's dietary needs. So it consisted of some broccoli, green onions, spinach, and pesto. I also added some Parmesan cheese, pepper jack cheese, and some aged cheddar. I baked it on 350 for about 47 minutes. I broiled it at the end just to get a nice browning on the top. It came out and smelt so good.

I then wrote Bill out a nice note and delivered it to his place of work. He was so thankful for my kind and warm gesture. He said "bless your heart" it was really nice. I felt so good after. He even gave me a little zen bow of generosity.

So I was just making quiches, doin mitzvah's and takin names.

Awesome Quiche...duhhH!!!

Another classic original quiche recipe from yours truly.

prep: well the night before while I was cooking my pasta meal I broiled some of the extra red peppers, and added some baby portobello mushrooms and burnt broccoli. I glazed them with extra virgin olive oil and garlic and salt and pepper and threw them in some Tupperware for the next day.

Day of making quiche.

I made my famous roasted potatoes with lipton onion soup mix, some cayenne pepper and 21 season salute from traders and go those started in the oven for our side.

While the potatoes were started to get yummy in the oven I caramelized one onion. The key to caramelizing is butter and EVOO and medium and just let them sit and become translucent and add S & P for taste and for browning I add some granulated sugar.

Quiche mixture:
Add veggies from night before.
4 eggs
1 1/2 cups of half and half
grated aged cheddar
grated pepper jack cheese
Parmesan cheese
S & P
mix in large bowl.

then I add it to the pre-bought crust. sorry folks even my mother who made the best quiche and pie in the world did not even make her own crust. then I topped the quiche off with caramelized onions and put it in a 350 degree over for about an hour and then broiled it off to get the top extra caramel and good.

When the quiche was almost done, I fried up some extra crispy bacon and crumbled it up using it to top the whole thing off. When all was done we served it with a side of fruit of strawberries and nectarines.

My one other idea to make this brunch even slightly more rich and delicious would be to top the quiche and bacon off with a dill hollandaise sauce.

Please try and enjoy.

Grilled goodness and Fresh Pasta

Well this was a great meal I made from the usual suspects chicken, eggplant, red peppers, fresh angel hair and pesto.

Chicken: Marinated a few hours in advance in
Orange Juice
Lemon
Lemon Zest
Paul Newman's Caesar dressing and Italian
Lots of Garlic
Salt n' Pepper

Grilled up so its dank.

Then I had some cut up eggplant and red peppers that I rubbed with love and extra virgin olive oil and salt and pepper and some fresh garlic. Grilled those along side the chicken for a yummy side dish.Then I made some pre-bought fresh angel hair from Market of choice and tossed it with some butter, Parmesan cheese and pesto from trader joes and market of choice.

Sorry for not having a picture of the final dish but I cut up the chicken in slices and served in on top of the pesto and the veggies on the side. we concluded the evening with dominoes and a classy game of beer pong.

Try these recipe you won't be disappointed.

Belly

Belly is a great new northwest inspired local eatery in the 5th street market area of Eugene. It is really added to the build up of the once run down and lame downtown district.

I went out for diner on a Friday night with my love and we came across it from the Internet.

Being a nice Jewish girl on shabbos I put my Jew bling on and order up the special which was the pork chop with a cherry glaze and served with deliciously smooth mashed potatoes and roasted kale it was so good. The pork chop was grilled to perfection with slight chard on the exterior that surrounded its juicy core.


The sauce was sweet and tangy and perfect for dipping the potatoes and cheesy herbed biscuit rolls that were served prior to the meal.

My boyfriend enjoyed the flank steak. It was served with fresh thick cut heirloom tomatoes. Red, Yellow, and Orange variety. The steak was served medium rare which I told him is the only way to have steak. It was topped with a yummy crunchy topping made of corn and other ingredients. It was accompanied with some fresh green beans to complete this hearty and homey meal.

Belly was legit for Eugene dining. The prices were awesome and moderate for gourmet, organic and local food. The setting was quaint and romantic. The area near the train tracks is really becoming a gentrified area in Lane county. When the train went by the restaurant rumbled and the train roared through, hardly interrupting are amazing evening. The seating is limited so go early or make a reservation because this place is going to get big and your going to want to eat there.

We were very inspired after our delisicio meal that we then went out to the movies to see Julie & Julia. It was a great ending to our Friday night together.

Simple and yummy party snack

Hello Readers,

Hungry guest that often come over to my house to play domino's usually don't eat before....so what is a girl to do.....

well I scanned the remnants of my snack cupboard and came up with this mix.

Everyone should try it.

MIX :
Tim's Hawaii Spicy BBQ chips, which are sweet and spicy.
New York Bagel Chips in the Everything flavor. (funny side note: the link will actually bring you to Amazon.com where you can apparently buy bagel chips...there are even used ones)
Corn Chips any variety, I actually took the remainders of my roommates chips.

I served this mix with salsa.

it went over very well.

WAFFLES!!!

So yesterday I ventured to 7th and Van Buren in eugene, OR for an Off the Waffle experience, I had only heard from word of mouth from some jews about these other crazy jews opening this waffle place where they have a book exchange and you can barter.

yes, I said barter.

they have a wall of barter needs and offerings.

their waffles are fucking amazing! they have these pockets of carmel sugar and it is devine!!!! its a must go.

the sons are also taking part in this neighborhood initiative to encorporate bartering on a small scale to create a community based on bartering similiar to a kibbutz in Israel or a co-op community.

Part 2

So we went down from Santa Monica boardwalk to Venice beach and I had a very mediocre sandwich in a small boardwalk cafe and then for group diner number one we went to this redic themed Italian restaurant that was near our hostel and we were pretty wiped out and sun burnt so a nice family meal sounded good. It was decorated with all this kitschy stuff and they give you a fake tour of the kitchen.






this is the pizza station
Also the salad station. It was very good for a chain
restaurant. Although I still have not heard of this
chain like Doug Wilson from Weeds would say,
"I wouldn't take a shit in an Olive Garden."
mostly because of our extreme hunger it all tasted bomb to us, even if it was totally blahhh on an other day.

The LA Food Story part 1

So this one time we decided to stop in this quaint little town called Solvang.
It is down the 101 off of 41 from Kettleman City. It is a completely Danish themed town.
The town wanted to create an environment for the Danish immigrants and they thought if they build a school and a community around it, they will come and they did. they brought these lovely
AEBLESKIVER:
which are Danish pancake balls.
follow here for recipe

They were very delish. here we are enjoying this delicacy. Bethany and I were into it, and Stephanie just wanted the beauty shot with them. They are traditionally covered in raspberry jam and powdered sugar. YUM!

mmm Cheeseburger, Cheesburger, Cheeseburger