Good thing…

Posted by Mandy on November 16th, 2007 filed in Foody

It’s a good thing I didn’t sign up for that month-of-writing-posts thing. I haven’t done much writing lately, even though I have a ton of stuff to talk about! I made some really good cranberry hazelnut muffins yesterday (thanks Ina Garten!), and documented some of the process. I think I need to be better about taking pictures of the things I do, especially when it’s new to me.

For instance, I have never shelled and skinned hazelnuts before, and I had to do that to get the hazelnuts for the mix (you just crack ‘em open, and bake at 325 for about 10-5 minutes, then dump a handful at a time into a kitchen towl and rubrubrub and the skins come right off! very cool. and tasty.)

Jack kept looking at the muffins and reaching for my coffee this morning, so I guess he likes the way both smell.

Also, I made spinach pesto last night from scratch. I don’t know why I ever thought pesto was hard. It was one of the simpler meals I have made. With some roast chicken cut up on top of the whole wheat pasta/pesto, it was yummy. Too bad jack has learned how to scream in sch a way that every mommy-nerve I have is put on edge! He sounds completely hysterical, but there’s nothing wrong with him as far as I can tell. I need to see if he’s teething.