A True Labor of Love....

When I asked Scott what wanted me to make for dinner for when he came home from college, he said he wanted Pasta Bolognese. He said it was the best sauce that I've ever made. There was no way that I was going to make that during the crazy heat that we've been having. Yesterday and today are beautiful days. Scott leaves to go back to school in a little over a week so I thought this was the perfect time to make it.
After all the prep work, you have to cook it for about 4 HOURS! You need a day to just stay home and tend the stove!
I made it yesterday. Every time Scott would come into the kitchen, he'd tell me how good it smells, thanks for keeping an eye on the sauce etc. We will have it for dinner tonight. He's so excited! The simple things in life that make people happy! I love it!
The recipe is in my cooking blog Mama Zuke Cooks. http://mamazukecooks.blogspot.com/2009/01/labor-of-love.html

PASTA PIE

I know this isn't my cooking blog but this deserves to be on BOTH of my blogs!
I made this Pasta Pie from The Noble Pig. It was so easy to make and the assembly took probably like 5 minutes! PJ came home from work, took one look at it and said that I have too much time on my hands! It would make a GREAT presentation when having company over!
Click here for the recipe from the Noble Pig...
http://noblepig.com/2009/03/18/when-the-moon-hits-the-sky.aspx
I even cheated and made it simpler by adding the browned chop meat with a jar of ready made spagetti sauce!

Last night I made a nice Asian dinner. We had Hot & Sour Soup, BAKED Eggrolls and an Asian Noodle Salad. Just the salad would have been fine but I got a little carried away! The meal was pretty healthy, mostly because there was no meat involved and that the eggrolls were baked and not fried.
Asian Noodle Salad

Hot & Sour Soup... this was really good and authentic tasting. I'm going to put the recipe on my cooking blog.

Baked Eggrolls. These were pretty good but I think next time I will use the filling recipe that I used last time. It was more flavorful. PJ and I left the food on the table for Alyssa because she'd be coming home from work shortly. Before she got home, PJ caught Huckleberry on the table and chased him off. Then he said... didn't we have more eggrolls left than just 2? I thought there was 4 or 5 left! He started looking around and couldn't find any. We just figured that we were both crazy! WELL.........

Alyssa came home, walked through the dining room into the kitchen and made up a plate of food for herself. Before eating, she went back into the dining room to give Huck so more food when we heard her say "what the heck is this"? I went in there and lo and behold.... there's a missing eggroll! One of these days...

French Cream of Onion Soup SHOTS with Bacon Swizzle Stix

Last night I made Louann's recipe for French Cream of Onion Soup SHOTS with Bacon Swizzle Stix. All I can say is forget making them as 'shots' and use bowls! PJ had 3 bowls of this! Don't leave out the bacon. It's important! The recipe is on my cooking blog... http://mamazukecooks.blogspot.com/

After dinner, Alyssa and I watched American Idol together. She decided to paint part of the picture that's in my header above. She took that picture at Wantagh Park. When she was finished, she gave it to ME!