So...For episode 2 Erin found this insanely good sounding pasta dish called, "Creamy Gorgonzola and Fig Spaghetti." I know...i've never even HAD figs except for those fig newton cookies, and i've certainly never even heard of Gorgonzola (which is a cheese by the way) except for on the Food Network. So, some may wonder why we would even attempt a dish where the main ingredients are ones we've barely encountered. Ahhhhh...well the answer to that is the point of our "show." We are forcing ourselves to try new things...and this was definitely new to us.
Filming of Epi 2 went off without any major glitches. It was actually sort of involved. First we had to make a "rue" (seen in the pic below)
which is basically a sauce thickened with flour and then we had to slowly incorporate all ingredients. The pasta was easy to make...obviously. Then to complement our dish we had a salad and for dessert we made Chocolate Chip Angel Food Cupcakes. This was our own concoction. We stood in the cake/brownie aisle at the grocerty store for about 15 minutes sulking over the fact that all of the desserts were ridiculously fatning and highly caloric so we finally just decided to make up our own thing. Angel Food Cake + Chocolate Chips = a low fat party in your mouth.:)
Final Verdict?? The pasta dish was way better than we could have thought. Even for my slightly juvenile pallatte, it was delicious! Erin loved it the most and as you can see below in the picture she probably could have polished off the entire dish if i would have let her...but we tried to eat in moderation. My favorite was the Choc. Chip Angel Food Cupcakes...as you obviously can see below i couldn't get enough of it.
All in all, we were definitely proud of ourselves for tackling a more challenging culinary dish this time around. I think we're finally getting a real taste of what it means to be celebrity chefs... (minus the celebrity part....and probably minus the chef part since we're technically amatuers in the real world.)
Filming of Epi 2 went off without any major glitches. It was actually sort of involved. First we had to make a "rue" (seen in the pic below)
which is basically a sauce thickened with flour and then we had to slowly incorporate all ingredients. The pasta was easy to make...obviously. Then to complement our dish we had a salad and for dessert we made Chocolate Chip Angel Food Cupcakes. This was our own concoction. We stood in the cake/brownie aisle at the grocerty store for about 15 minutes sulking over the fact that all of the desserts were ridiculously fatning and highly caloric so we finally just decided to make up our own thing. Angel Food Cake + Chocolate Chips = a low fat party in your mouth.:)Final Verdict?? The pasta dish was way better than we could have thought. Even for my slightly juvenile pallatte, it was delicious! Erin loved it the most and as you can see below in the picture she probably could have polished off the entire dish if i would have let her...but we tried to eat in moderation. My favorite was the Choc. Chip Angel Food Cupcakes...as you obviously can see below i couldn't get enough of it.
All in all, we were definitely proud of ourselves for tackling a more challenging culinary dish this time around. I think we're finally getting a real taste of what it means to be celebrity chefs... (minus the celebrity part....and probably minus the chef part since we're technically amatuers in the real world.)
2 comments:
meggie thats just a classic pic of you gettin so delighted about your food you just can't stand yourself!
I was wondering who had bought figs yesterday (I saw them on the counter). It sounds like an interesting concoction. What did you think of the gorganzolla cheese?
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