{"id":474,"date":"2007-12-10T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2007-12-10T19:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2008-11-09T21:02:17","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T05:02:17","slug":"3-word-weekend-cacciatore-lumpia-bouchon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kellybeanz.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"3 word weekend – Cacciatore, Lumpia, Bouchon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cacciatore<\/strong><\/p>\n

The working mama’s savior – the slow cooker. Friday night our dear friends Katie & Matt came over for a “holiday” dinner. Since dinner was planned for apres work and I wasn’t able to take the day off to prepare, I turned to my All-Clad slow cooker<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, I bought a FABULOUS cookbook<\/a> at one of my favorite cooking shops<\/a>. What makes is fabulous is that it is divided into three sections: 15-minutes hands on time, 30-minute hands on time, made for extras.<\/p>\n

So for our dinner, I decided upon Chicken Cacciatore (Hunter’s Chicken, in Italian, I think). Thursday night I prepped the veggies. Friday am, I browned the chicken, made the sauce, threw everything into the crock and that was it! (I was a bit worried that the slow cooker was going to short, and burn the house down, but it didn’t.) I got home, threw in the ‘shrooms, cooked some pappardelle and we were good to go.<\/p>\n

It was a lovely evening, but no naked baby dance for entertainment, perhaps next time.<\/p>\n

Lumpia<\/strong><\/p>\n

Saturday evening, my family got together for an early birthday\/holiday celebration.<\/p>\n

As always, there was way too much food. Roast Beef, Spiral Cut Ham and Lumpia. My grandma made a pretty mean lumpia and now my uncle is following in her footsteps. I only had two, but could have easily eaten 5 or 10!<\/p>\n

We also had a mini-birthday celebration for my cousin’s daughter Kady, who turns 2 in a couple days. She had a delicious neopolitan cake from Goldilocks. Yum!<\/p>\n

We did have a white elephant gift exchange, but IMHO the gifts were, eh. Next year, we’ll have to require the gifts to be items people actually want.<\/p>\n

Bouchon<\/strong><\/p>\n

As if Friday and Saturday weren’t enough, we headed down to Palo Alto for dinner Sunday night. (And S got to test his early xmas gift<\/a>. Btw, I no way paid the price listed. Are you kidding? I could have gotten myself a nice gift at Burberry or elsewhere. But I digress.) Our friend G, made a wonderful dinner! So wonderful, Mads even enjoyed it! Mixed green salad with duck breast, pecans, followed by trout with green beans, roasted pearl onions & shallots and croutons, pommes anna, and ended with creme brulee and chocolate bouchons (I’ve talked about these before<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Mads really dug into the duck breast, trout and pommes anna (wasn’t too fond of the pearl onion, though) and especially LOVED the creme brulee and chocolate bouchon!<\/p>\n

So, as I tackle another week of work, looking forward to the holidays and getting xmas shopping done!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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