So of course with my long list of To Dos for this Thanksgiving weekend I didn’t finish nearly as much as I’d hoped. But I did make Christmas stockings for Adam and me, so that was a big one finished.
Archive: November 2008
I had the best intentions, I really did. But now I understand that not every person needs a homemade gift this year. I kind of understood this before, but now I see that fact in Technicolor.
Last Sunday I made Smitten Kitchen‘s adaptation of Ina Garten’s recipe for Chicken Pot Pie. I read about the recipe not long ago, and I loved this dish as a kid.
It was delicious, but it also took all day to make. And I couldn’t find any appropriately sized oven proof bowls like the recipe calls for, so I ended up making it in small cake pans. The pies were ginormous, too ginormous. But they were so good I can’t even describe it. As there is an obscene amount of butter in this dish, it is not something I would make often. But I will make these again sometime, after I find good sized bowls.
Chicken Pot Pie (Smitten Kitchen variation)
Adam and I were one of the couples in the middle of the whole Celebration Studios debacle. We were married a year and a half ago but never received our wedding photos. The photography studio went bust, and we’ve spent more than a year filing complaints with Consumer Affairs, talking to our photographer, and just trying to get our photos. With more than 3,000 couples affected, the case was in the media and made it all the way to the NJ Attorney General’s office.
The Interweb is a marvelous thing. I read a lot of blogs for ideas and inspiration, and not long ago I stumbled upon this homemade recipe book on The Small Object’s blog Steno Pad. I thought it was great, but I wasn’t thinking of giving any recipes this year. Then somewhere else in my wanderings-I didn’t bookmark the page so now for the life of me I cannot find it again-I saw a post about a homemade doodle book with comic strip panels for a child to fill in. Again, great idea but I couldn’t think of any little artists on my list who’d be interested (I did a few art gifts last year).