What MK eats

Mary Kate came down for a visit on Saturday and stayed over that night. She is one of my favorite dinner guests, and did not disappoint this time! We started with the latest iteration of the Thanksgiving GF Stuffies, accompanied by a nice white burgundy whose name and birthdate I cannot recall. Unfortunately, I got distracted by our conversation and left the stuffies on the grill a little too long, but they were pretty good and I might be just about there on the proportion of cranberries to clams.

For dinner we had pork chops stuffed with pine nuts, spinach, ricotta, and fontina (Cook's, except I grilled them). They were sooo good--you wouldn't think a person could eat that entire ginormous chop, but we all succeeded! The chops were from WF, so pretty high-quality to begin with, and brined, so even better. Hollie got to do what she does best, oven potatoes (CSA, so good) with herbs and balsamic, and I made Alton Brown braised cabbage and apples, which was great and really easy. MK brought us some Pinot Noir to accompany.

Finally, dessert! Because that peach shortcake I made a couple of weeks ago was only so-so, I really wanted to redeem myself. I made an Epicurious recipe for pecan shortcakes with bourbon whipped cream. I am SUCH a bad baker, and did my best to mess up the shortcakes, but they were pretty good anyway, and the whipped cream was awesome. I put some bourbon in the peaches as well, and also used cane sugar that Lisa and Chris got in Cambodia, which is really delicious--I have been known to nibble at it on its own.

The fun didn't stop there! Sunday morning MK and I went to yoga and Craig went for a bike ride. When we all got back, Craig made us a German apple breakfast cake thing from Cook's. We topped it with maple syrup. It was so good, the perfect amount of dough, perfectly cooked, with all those good apples.