First Post

Hey All!

So for the past year I have been talking with my housemates and others about creating a food blog to post meals that we ate whenever we found them to be particularly exciting and remembered to take pictures. I decided the only way for it to actually happen is to make the blog, so that we will feel obligated to post.

And we have quite a meal to start to start the blog with

Today Sarah, Xiaoxi and I took a field trip to Whole Foods in West Hartford to find exciting things to buy and cook. We had a very successful trip, and you will probably see many of the ingredients we bought in the weeks to come.





Swordfish with Caramelized Fennel, Broccoli Rabe and Brown Rice with Barley


This was actually my first time cooking and eating swordfish, so I didn't want to do anything too complicated. Since we got it home just in time for dinner, we weren't able to marinate. Instead I just threw on some salt and pepper, lemon zest, Herbs du Provence, and the green leafy part of the fennel. We broiled it for around 5 minutes on each side. -This is very important. As Sarah's father told us when broiling lamb earlier this week "put it under the broiler for 4 minutes on each side, then take it out. You're gonna look at it and want to put it back in for another minute and this probably won't stop you, but DON"T DO IT. The meat will be overcooked and you will be disappointed."
Of course we did it anyway, for both the lamb and tonight's fish, and now hopefully we have leared our lesson.

The Fennel was sauteed in some butter with garlic and Vinho Verde - wine made from unripened grapes. Broccoli was basically steamed with a bit of salt and more garlic, yay!

Sarah's new thing is cooking brown rice and barley together in our rice cooker, and its pretty delicious and worked really well with the fish.




The secondary aspect of the blog with hopefully be the people who ate it. And here they are:

From left to right- Aliza, Becca, Sarah, Xiaoxi, Sarah, and I was in the empty seat.

We finished the meal off with some vanilla ice cream with a hot salty butterscotch sauce.

Hopefully there will be many more entries to come!

-Avi