Fabulous Foodie Weekend

  We spent the long weekend cooking several dishes that included:

  • Lobster egg Benedict;
  • Summer pea and spinach soup;
  • Muscovy duck salad;
  • Apple pie;
  • Cherry pie;
  • Black bean and guacamole dip;
  • Homemade pizzas; and,
  • Red pacific snapper with a fabulous salsa.

My parents were also in town from London and we had a hoot trying to organize a single family photo! Happy Anniversary kids!

1) Lobster egg Benedict with homemade hollandaise (bugger Rob Feenie!)
 

2 & 3) trying to get the right shot
 

4) not quite
 

5) THERE it is!  
 
 
6 & 7) the duck before and after cooking
 

8) I did a simple salad of arugula, endive and radicchio; 9) slicing the duck 
 

  10) mmmm … served with a blackberry vinaigrette, chevre, Fuji apple and walnuts (I should have diced the apple smaller me thinks)
 
 
11) the red pacific snapper with essentially a Santa Cruz-style salsa; 12) G’s yummy black bean and guacamole dip

 13) puree the peas (and a bit of spinach); 14) pass through a fine mesh sieve

15) heat with some stock and puree again; 16) serve with mint and creme fraiche (or in our case: Dijon mustard ice cream)
 

17) G’s wee 6-inch pies; 18) more of the lobster
 

19) G prepares the toppings for our pizzas (potato, red onion, olive oil and herbs; 20) oven roasted tomato and buffalo mozzarella
 

21 & 22) G works the pizza dough he made
 

23) preparing the tomato, buffalo mozzarella and basil pizza; 24) fabulously fresh from the oven
 

25) the white pizza with potato, red onion and herbs fresh from the oven
 

26 & 27) here are the pizzas side by each
 
    
28) apple pie foreground; cherry pie background


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