Food Sunday

What a day...I cooked up a storm and relieved some of my food stress...Look for pictures and posts documenting...

• Simplest Potato & Leek Braise
• Leek Confit
• Jammy Tomato-Onion Sauce
• Slow-Roasted Tomatoes
• Red Cabbage Braised with Maple and Ginger
• Soy-Braised Collards with Five-Spice Powder
• Garlicky Kale with White Beans
• Roasted Cauliflower
• Roasted Red Peppers for pasta sauce

Exhausted...I love Fall...it's cool out and I spent the day in and out of the kitchen.

Jammy Tomato-Onion Sauce

I have a 20lb case of tomatoes to preserve. What to do, what to do...
I started with the Jammy Tomato-Onion Sauce from the Kitchn blog. Very easy and quick (compared with the 8 hr roasted tomatoes cooking at the same time). It didn't specify how many tomatoes to use...I used the ones that were about to get overripe - probably 6 or so beefsteaks? Not sure what I'll use it for - pasta sauce, crostini, something like that I guess.

the Phone

Kelly loves to talk on the phone (she calls it the "soam"). Uncle Mike came to visit and they had some couch time and chatted.

Life is Good Festival Air Guitar

Rory getting down to Guster at Life is Good...he plays a mean air guitar.

Life is Good Festival

The Life is Good Festival was great! It was a couple of weeks ago (I just caught up with my pictures!) and we had such a wonderful day. We arrived at around 1 just in time for They Might be Giants, we played around and ate, met Wally the Green Monster (thrill of Kelly's life so far!), saw Laurie Berkner play, ate some more, and finished off with Guster!

Shelagh in her concert outfit (yes, she picked the all black outfit - including boots - completely on her own!). Kelly posing at the concert.

Kelly was obsessed with Wally while we were waiting on line and then was a deer in headlights.

The family watching Guster (except for Kelly who passed out on my by then) and Rory cheering on his band.

Kids Put on a Show

The classic and creative stylings of Shelagh with side-kick Rory inserting his rendition of a favorite Guster song mixed in with some Sheryl Crow. We take our performances very seriously. Enjoy.

Pumpkin Nipple

That's what Rory came out with for the Pumpernickel pretzels we were just munching on. Classic.