Partners in cooking

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asparagus, bacon, grilled chicken, postaday2016

Today my husband and I partnered up in cooking, he was outside grilling chicken cutlets and I was inside cooking up the asparagus. I think you can see from the picture that we got three varieties of asparagus, the white, green and dark red, we wanted to do a tasting comparison. After I peeled the green and red asparagus, I left the white as they were, I plunged them in heavily salted boiling water and once they came back to the boil, I left them for about ten minutes.  In the meantime, I made a Dijon mustard vinaigrette to serve with the asparagus, I also used the vinaigrette to dip the grilled chicken in for some added zip. My husband did an excellent job grilling the chicken, the cutlets were tender and juicy with just a hint of char, my favorite part. Did I mention there was bacon? My husband cooked the bacon on the grill after the cutlets were done, wow, grilled bacon is a special kind of delicious, trust me.

If you look closely at the first picture, you’ll see a tiny bit of Jack in the lower right hand corner, he was circling around us in the kitchen, hoping beyond hope for a dropped morsel. He was out of luck, lol.

The juxtaposition of the commonality and singularity of comfort food

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bacon, comfort food, postaday2014, tomato sauce, zucchini

We often hear of comfort food and how when the weather gets cool or times are difficult or just when you need a pick me up, there is nothing like comfort food to make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. However for every person who craves comfort food, there is always a specific food that is craved even when on the whole it is something from your childhood, hot and soothing with some type of carb and fat attached to it.

In our house the classic pasta carbonara is a favorite comfort food for our children and my husband; whereas for me it is sautéed zucchini and onions with tomato sauce and grated parmesan cheese, just the way my mother made it for my sister and myself when we were little. It reminds me of our kitchen back on 24th Street, yellow and white where we ate dinner every night together, just the three of us while my father worked nights at the restaurant. Happy memories.

Now when it comes to the pasta carbonara; it’s easy to figure out why it is considered as comfort food, it’s the bacon, because quite simply, bacon makes everything better. 😀

Bacon makes everything better

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bacon, comfort food, cooking, dinner, eggs, food, pasta, postaday2013

Yes, I said it, bacon makes everything better. I know that nutritionally it isn’t the best for you, but if you have bacon, say on a once a week basis, how bad can it be? There are many comfort foods that have bacon attached to them in some fashion. One of my family’s favorite comfort foods is pasta carbonara and that is what’s for dinner tonight.

The baby boy and the baby girl discovered their love for this dish at a small restaurant next to our rental apartment in Le Canon, France a few summers ago. There is nothing that beats the comfort level of this pasta dish; eggs, bacon, parmesan cheese, sautéed onions and a little cream plus the pasta. There is nothing not to like here.