Which sister made which cone?
Lynley or....
Stephanie?
Can You Guess Which Cone Belongs to Who?
Day: October 25, 2011
Stephanie, Lynley and Jessica Make Homemade Potato Chips (and other activites)
Pre-Potato Chip Making- Front Yard Happy Hour!
Champange with bitters and a sugar cube, (bubbly, sweet and only slightly bitter, just like the Farris girls)
Potato Chip Making
Slicing the unpeeled potatos paper thin...
Jessica eating raw potato slices!!
Raw potato chips (sweet potato too) soaking in salt water.
Giant sauce pot turned into homemade fry daddy. The chips need to float!
You fry a ladle full at a time. Which takes a while, so that leaves plenty of time to...
...bust a move.
Fry those chips until they are good and brown!
4 rounds of chips later...
Puffy two-sided chips make Stephanie very happy.
Veggie burgers and homemade chips! Huzzah!
John's all yellow plate (do not show the food pryamid this!)
Dinner and movie (who needs a table?)
Post- Potato Chip Making
Our out-of-season coveted French Silk Pie Concretes (kept safe in our deep freeze.)
Once Lynley was out of custard, she was ready to be shipped home to Tenessee!
Sister Pie lunch at The Upper Crust- September
Yes, this is what two sisters eating pie for lunch look like.
Lynley's Upper Crust Coconut Cream Pie
Stephanie's Upper Crust Pumpkin Pie Lunch
Stephanie's clean plate
Lynley's almost clean plate.
Stephanie’s Life in Food: Almost everything that I ate in September
Crown room blueberry pancake
Veggie hummas sandwich and vanilla cupcake with SPRINKLES!
Giant glass of wine
John's Space Age Chocolate Twist donut
Steak 'n' Shake grilled cheese with pickle and tomato AND fries
Light night slice of cheese
Lemon cream pie
Pecan pancake with a sad looking egg and lonely biscuit
Chocolate peanut butter pie
I don't remember, but...
Smells like Elvis.
Veggie omelette with biscuit and grits
This is what a regrettable pecan pie looks like...beware.
AMAZING! Lynley's chocolate cherry pie with custard
Who's on the road again? Another Steak 'n' Shake grilled cheese and fries
Cheesy Pirate Booty...yeah, well...
Cheese pizza from Pizza Shoppe
All the snacks I ate in the car...
Sauteed vegetables with rice and salad
Berry-Banana Smoothie
Taco Night! Veggie tacos with mexi rice and corn
Crown room pancake (the best of September)
Lentil loaf with Amy's cheese shells, carrots and pan seared garlic brussel sprouts
Sheridan's French Silk Concrete-- oh my lord!
P&G Tea with dry cereal
Italian vegetable and bean soup with homemade bread
Loose Pizza- over-roasted tomatoes with garlic, fresh mozzarella, and multi-grain pizza dough
Leftover Indian food!
Farris Slush
Veggie dog with baked potatoes, corn on the cob, snap peas and deviled eggs
Malt Cup from the ice cream truck
Pasta with oven roasted tomatoes and fresh mozzarella
Giant happy cup of British tea
2nd giant cup of British tea, still happy
Grilled marinated tofu with chedder, deviled egg and blue/green fruits and veggies
Pizza from pizza bella
Veggie tacos!
Crown room pancake
Sci-fy Drive-in Night: Hilary's veggie burger, homemade french fries and John's chocolate peanut butter shake
Leftover grilled tofu sandwich with baked Cheetos
Egg salad sandwich on homemade bread with sugar snap peas and Crown room chocolate pudding
All that was left of a Cascone's dinner.
Cinnamon roll dippers
Dose Reales huevos rancheros
Homemade pizza with lentil loaf and breadsticks
Toast and tea!
Hillbilly Shepard's pie with biscuits and carrots
Mini pie tasting
Leftover pizza on an Edward plate
Jamie Oliver's Chow Mein Noodles and salad
Cheese grits and a biscuit
Grilled provolone cheese, Italian vegetable soup, apple slice and two fries
Salad with apples and cheese
Veggie tacos strike again!
hmmmmmm....
Autumn Solstice Sweet Potato pasta with garlic and maple sugar pecans
Soup at Carol's
Tart-ling apple, apple butter pie with Julie's ice cream
V's pasta with olives and tomato sauce
Half of a chocolate croissant and tea
Black beans, rice and corn tortilla's
Drumstick!
Harvest rice
Corn on the cob
Apple caramel pie
Beer (after digging up sweet potatoes)
Nutritious nuggets, Amy's shells' and white cheese, peas and carrots and milk
Jason's Deli Salad
Free swirl ''tiger tail" cone
Ramon noodles, veggie chik nuggets and honey
Golden Crown Room Pancake
Red bean and roasted califlower soft shell taco with rice
Homemade bread with peanut butter, raisins and strong tea
meatless monday: toasted ravioli
the south is known for its love of deep fried food. fact…at the salad bar in the grocery store the side opposite salad ingredients is all a variety of fried foods and condiments to go with those foods. shocking for me when i had a sudden craving for toasted ravioli and couldn’t find any fried pasta around. i searched every pizza/italian restaurant menu i could find along with checking at the grocery store in the frozen section. i became suspicious they don’t have toasted ravioli. to confirm this i asked a born and raised knoxvillian about toasted ravioli, the response……what’s that?
meatless monday then became a challenge of making toasted ravioli. first issue how to cook the frozen cheese ravs but not boil them so they could cook longer as they fried. solution i rinsed them off in HOT i mean HOT water till they got thawed and got soft. then came the basics for breading and frying, eggs and italian bread crumbs.
the assembly line
to tell when a ravioli is cooked, if you are boiling them, it is when they float. frying them is much the same thing i noticed, instead of floating they sort of puff out forming little toasted pillows. plus they are all golden brown.
fry away
these sort of cooking adventures can turn out wonderful or be huge messy disasters. this one was the first. i heated up some paul newman’s tomato and basil for a dipping sauce sprinkled the whole shabang with parm and a little oregano/basil mix and enjoyed a midwestern treat.
Hearty Eaters 