Ooh! Just in time for springtime brunches on the veranda (you have one of those, right?): Asparagus-Parmesan Pain Perdu (that’s french toast) with Tomato Jam! Sounds très bon, don’t it? The technique seems a bit tricky–I am not sure how well dipping bread topped with multiple aspargus slices into egg batter would work out–but I think I’ll have to make this some time very soon! Hopefully I will get asparagus from my CSA starting next month! [via Serious Eats]
Note to the Hubs: I am not expecting anything for Mother’s Day on account of the fact that I am not yet a mother, but if you wanted to get something for me (twisting toe into ground), I wouldn’t be upset at all if it were one of these Bouchon Bakery Strawberry Patties. Just sayin’. The Kitchn features a recipe, but why make these complicated confections when you can run over to Bouchon Bakery and buy one?
Clotilde’s homemade date-nut bars seem like a great (and healthy!) way to use the cacao nibs that the Predicate kindly brought back from Panama for me (directly from the plantation where the cacao was grown!). But who am I kidding, those suckers are going into some cookies at some point, too.
I have never made tortillas, though I have often heard that they are quite easy to make. But Half-Assed Kitchen actually writing out the recipe makes me see how east it really is. I don’t have a tortilla press, and I possess a serious aversion to rolling out dough, but still, if someone who admits to being half-assed can make them, I guess I should give it a try too. They do look much better in their imperfectness than the store-bought variety.
Technically not about food, this NYP article features the word “wiener” and mentions this pooch’s diet (chicken and whole wheat pasta), so I’ll give it a pass. At 21 years old, Chanel is the Guinness-certified World’s Oldest Dog. How could you not love a dog who wears sunglasses (to protect her catarachts) and one bootie? So mid-career-M.J.-enigmatic! [photo via NY Post, Dennis Clark]
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