Spent the weeked in Mendocino. Slept outside on a farm, made & ate fantastic food, beached on the river, bocce in the park, and wine tasting in Healdsburg! Damn good weekend.
Mmmm... Hookers are good cooks! Erica's stuffed pizza was awesome... gotta love her Italian roots. =)
Steve Ivy IM'd me about some code... but then mentioned balsamic vinegar—all of a sudden I just had to cook!
Called the roomies they were down to eat. Stopped by Rainbow Grocery on the way home to pick up some ingredients. I was craving potatoes, ginger, spinach... so I picked them up. Then how to combine... I decided that I'd make a simple potato dish and then cover it with a sauce.
I quartered the potatoes, minced an onion and a few fingers of ginger. Set the onions and some butter sweating in my cast iron pan while the potatoes steamed. Meanwhile I minced and sauteed a few hand-fulls of mushrooms and chopped a few cups of spinach in a separate pan.
Once the potatoes were fork-tender, I added them and the ginger to the sweating onions to brown. In the other pan I added 3 cans of drained tuna, a jar of pasta sauce, and some fennel seed.
After letting the potatoes brown and the saucy concoction simmer, I plated them side-by-side.
So good. Yum.
Dessert Update... Whisky Strawberry Sour -- Frozen Strawberries, fresh squeezed meyer lemon, fresh kumquats, and Makers Mark... blended till thick and smooth.
I've been catching up with some of my childhood friends from Santa Cruz. Two of them have pretty hilarious videos on YouTube...
Riley Sauer (he's the hot one in the dress)
Lilia took an awesome photo of all of the Six Apart SF bikers! Thanks Lilia :)
