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Nightly Review: Roast Chicken with Potatoes and Butternut Squash

Monday, January 18th, 2010
Roast Chicken with Potatoes and Butternut Squash

Roast Chicken with Potatoes and Butternut Squash

Roast Chicken with Potatoes and Butternut Squash

Overall Rating: 4 out of 5

Recipe Link

This is the first of hopefully many recipe reviews to come.

Dear God what a great recipe.  Super simple, but not that quick.  Takes about an hour in the oven.  Make sure you line your baking dish with tin foil, otherwise you’ll have a bit of a mess to clean up.  It’s also a good idea to spray the tinfoil in the dish with some oil to keep the potatoes and squash from sticking.  The greasy drippings on the potatoes and squash, which crisp very nicely, are delicious.  Makes enough for 6 people or so, unless you eat a lot in which case you should maybe just plan for 4 servings.

We served this over rice with Sagres (a nice cheap portuguese beer – around $18 bucks for a 24 pack) and two episodes of The Office.

This Weekend’s Deliciousness!!

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

The topic of this article is the Amaretto Apple Streusel Cupcakes we made yesterday. I threw in the pizza since it was also part of the meal, but I don’t think any of us need a blog to tell us how incredibly satisfying a pure pepperoni pizza can be. That said, on to the dessert. We got the recipe from (as always) Cooking Light Magazine. The online version of the recipe can be viewed here.

The Dessert!

The Dessert: Amaretto Apple Streusel Cupcakes.

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Skinning our Word Press Blog: a “Banana Cake Simplicity”

Sunday, November 1st, 2009

Part of our website “housekeeping”, or more like, the reason for it, was to update our site to be more web 2.0. This included setting up a blog and connecting it to our site. Matt very quickly found a way to bring the latest postings to our homepage (check the posting), however skinning the blog took us more time. But here it is!

The Before and After

The Before and After

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Tarte Tatin

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

A quick post to share my love for Tarte Tatin.  I admittedly type this better than I pronounce it, and as such decided an all text blog would be an appropriate medium to share this delicious dessert.
This was all Adri’s creation courtesy of Cooking Light magazine.  The recipe, for those interested, can also be found on cookinglight.com.

Fairly easy recipe, I suppose.  Adri can maybe follow up with more on difficulty and process.  Nonetheless, I did eat it, and as such find myself qualified to speak for taste.  Delicious after or before meals, nice crispy crust that doesn’t get mushy after a day in the fridge, and between two people lasts a few days.

Apologies for the blurry photo on the left.  My Art Director wife, Adriana, isn’t too keen on my inability to hold a camera steady and my unconscious need to take pictures in front of a window with flash.

Conclusion – pictures, not that great – Tarte Tatin, delicious!