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Busy Holiday Weekend
Sep. 5th, 2006 12:18 pmHow was your holiday weekend? Mine was pretty busy. I got some good traction on things I wanted to do around the house. Yesterday I finished sorting stuff related to Bill and hiking and sending packages to him up into our guest room and out of the living room, and gave that room a thorough cleaning. This morning I donated most of the stuff that had been stacked in our den to donate. Cleaned the den a little yesterday and will hopefully finish tonight.
I did a lot of cooking over the weekend. Saturday I learned how to "de-vein" shrimp for a dish I made for the SouthEastern Michigan Gluttony Society (pronounced "SMEGS: friends, conversation, and stupid amounts of food.") Sunday I made a bacon spinach smoked sausage lasagna that was an invention of Bill's. He's commented that he likes it when I figure out how to make a crazy idea of his into a reality. In this case you take half a pound of bacon, cooked and chopped or crumbled, plus a couple links of smoked sausage, thinly sliced, and add them into an otherwise quality spinach lasagna recipe, mixing the bacon into the spinach/ricotta mixture and layering the smoked sausage between the cheese mixture and the tomato sauce.
Monday I made a spinach-stuffed lamb roast, with the sirloin half of a leg of lamb -- which effort pointed out I really need a meat mallet-- and scalloped potatoes. It turned out pretty well. I removed the bone first so I could pound out the meat and tie it in a roast with the stuffing inside. Then I roasted the bone beside it. I think pulling the crispy bits off the bone was my favorite part.
( more about de-veining shrimp )
I did a lot of cooking over the weekend. Saturday I learned how to "de-vein" shrimp for a dish I made for the SouthEastern Michigan Gluttony Society (pronounced "SMEGS: friends, conversation, and stupid amounts of food.") Sunday I made a bacon spinach smoked sausage lasagna that was an invention of Bill's. He's commented that he likes it when I figure out how to make a crazy idea of his into a reality. In this case you take half a pound of bacon, cooked and chopped or crumbled, plus a couple links of smoked sausage, thinly sliced, and add them into an otherwise quality spinach lasagna recipe, mixing the bacon into the spinach/ricotta mixture and layering the smoked sausage between the cheese mixture and the tomato sauce.
Monday I made a spinach-stuffed lamb roast, with the sirloin half of a leg of lamb -- which effort pointed out I really need a meat mallet-- and scalloped potatoes. It turned out pretty well. I removed the bone first so I could pound out the meat and tie it in a roast with the stuffing inside. Then I roasted the bone beside it. I think pulling the crispy bits off the bone was my favorite part.
( more about de-veining shrimp )
