Last Weeks Food Pt.1

  These are some of the meals that I cooked for the family this last week.  I will admit that some of the week had a speckling of fast food (ugh, the salt!), but for the most part I at least cook the dinner meal. Here they are for anyone to enjoy.

Lobster Ravioli with a Caper Spinach Cream Sauce

Yes I bought the Ravioli, and from Costco no less, but this sauce was a perfect match.  It would also be wonderful on linguine or fresh pasta with a little Chicken or Seafood. Anyway, the point is that it is always up to you, spruce it up or play it down a bit. For a version that is a little more northwest you can sub in Nettles for the spinach.

In a hot saute pan I put a little drizzle of Olive Oil and 2T butter letting letting the milk solids brown. Then I add 1lg clove Garlic minced and toss or stir in the pan a little. Before the Garlic has time to brown I add 1T(heaping) Capers, 3 sprigs fresh Oregano stems removed and minced, a few fresh Sage leaves minces, S&P and crushed red pepper to taste and toss or stir. When the changed aroma hits me I throw in 2Cups Spinach chiffonade and incorporate completely with the other ingredients. I then pour 1/3Cup Cream and stir until cream thickens a bit. When I start getting a little impatient flip the pat of butter in and in a matter of seconds the sauce is thick and luscious.  A couple drops of Sherry, then a toss with the Ravioli. Plate the Rav, sauce the top, a little grated parm, and some minced fresh herbs and there it is!  

I have an edible complex

   The title statement of this post is true. I do indeed have an edible complex. This does not mean I want to eat my parents.  Well, not when I have a twelve year old, and two month old baby toes to eat instead. Cannibalism aside, I love food. Having a love for food is not what an edible complex is all about, though I think it helps. If seven of your nine indoor plants are of the edible variety you might have an edible complex. Especially if your wife is responsible for the two that are not food.  If you think a person is crazy for not planting a fruit tree in their parking strip, instead opting for the "yeah sure it's beautiful, but you can't eat it" Maple, then you might have an edible complex. If you have all your co-workers go in on the price of wholesale pork bellies, then cure the forty pounds of the bacon-to-be using all the space in the way too small rental house fridge... I may not have to say the rest. I am certain that there are people that have far superior complexes to mine, but it is not the point of this blog.
  I want to blog food. I want to talk food. I want to show food. I want to eat food and then talk about it. I want to do video segments on food and techniques that I might already know or just learned myself. Once a month I would like to pair a dining experience with a film review. This blog will be about food.     
    Nothing excites me the way food does.  I love the way it brings people together, and then back for seconds.  I look forward to the changing seasons and the unique harvest each one brings to the table.  To this day I am teased by my Mother for the fact that every memory I have from my childhood being associated with a food, every location paired with what we ate.  
  Since the age of nine I have I have been trying to make people happy with the food I prepared.  While in High School my Mom got me French cooking classes at a local Community College.  A fellow participant in the class owned a restaurant and asked if I wanted a job.  I quickly accepted the job and from that point on I have been working with food in some capacity; I was 17, and I am 35 now.
 THIS BLOG IS A FOOD BLOG!