I also sent a book of executive portraits and I'll post that as well soon.

Just as sickening, but with a more even distribution of labour.

What You Need:

Spinach & Cheese Tortellini (I used Bertolli dry)

Sea Salt (or Kosher, whatever you use)

Olive Oil

Butter

Mushrooms, roughly chopped

Garlic, 3 cloves or so

Pesto (I use Buitoni)

Parmesan Cheese

Bacon, about 4-5 slices

What You Do:

Start a pot of water boiling with the lid on, this makes it boil faster. Meanwhile, start about 3 T. olive oil and 2 T. butter in a pan on medium heat. The reason you use both is because the oil keeps the butter from browning too much and still offers the buttery flavor. Toss in the mushrooms and let cook down a little before adding the chopped garlic.

Salt the now boiling water and pour in the tortellini, give them a stir to keep them from sticking together. Stir the mushrooms occasionally to keep them from browning too much. Put the bacon on some paper towels and cook for about 1 minute per piece. I used our fresh, organic bacon from the half a pig we just got, and by fresh I mean just came out of the smoker on Monday. It was the best bacon I have ever had.

Ladle the tortellini into the mushroom sauce. Don't be afraid to get a little pasta water in the mushroom pan, you will need it to thicken the sauce. Turn off the heat and add 1 T. of pesto and some parmesan. Stir well to coat all the pasta with pesto, parmesan and the sauce.

Serve with a little crumbled bacon on top and some fresh parsley and basil, if you have it! Enjoy!

Thank you for having Dinner at The Hampton's and see you around the table next time.

Ritrovo cheese friends, all in honor of this weekend's Seattle Cheese Festival.

Read more also at today's Seattle Post-Intelligencer food section

Well... I got Jake's pictures today from school, and man I laughed out loud. His individual shot was so full of cheese... then we move to the "class Picture".  Oh my gosh!  I asked Mrs. Pam (who Jake and Anna Riley call Mrs. Ham) if he was being bad and she said politely "he was ready to get to the playground"...

Two shots of happy, one shot of sad
I'm not complaining, baby I'm glad
You call it a compromise, well what's that
Two shots of happy, one shot of sad

-U2 "Two Shots of Happy One Shot of Sad"

It appears as though any thoughts of diets and healthy eating are mostly put aside on these evenings. However, the eagle-eye (or chicken-eye) caught someone peeling a plate-sized layer of cheesy rubber off theirs, and another few wasting serviettes trying to soak up the oil. Give it up already: pizza is unhealthy, end of story.

The chips hiding under my pizza were awesome tonight. Thought: Has anyone ever asked for their chips on the top?! Just to confuse the process and production line...

Chicken managed to squirt out the last few drops of tomato sauce onto the plate. Still no sign of the sweet chilli sauce. Sigh. Note to self: Get to dining hall early. There WILL be a rush for the sauces.

With that, me and my indigestion take leave. MooClucks and Good night

What You Need:

• Mahi Mahi (small filet per person)
• can of black beans, drained and rinsed
• one avocado, chopped
• cooking spray
• salt
• pepper
• Jamiacan jerk seasoning
• can of black olives
• mango salsa
• provolone cheese
• whole wheat tortillas

What You Do:

Spray a baking dish with cooking spray and placed thaw Mahi Mahi fillets in pan. Spray the tops of the fish with cooking spray and sprinkle with salt, pepper, and jerk seasoning. Toss in the oven to bake at 375° for about 15-20 minutes.

Wrap some whole wheat tortillas in foil and set on the stove for later. Meanwhile, chop the olives, avocado and set out the other ingredients. I do this like any other taco night, where people can build them to suit.

The fish is cooked through when it flakes easily. Turn the oven off and throw the foiled tortillas in to warm for a couple of minutes. Layer all the ingredients on the tortillas and enjoy!

As usual, thanks for having Dinner at The Hampton's and see you around the table next time!

Carrie's Cheese Balls

1 stick Butter

1 C Grated Cheddar Cheese

1-1/4 cups Sifted Flour

1/4 tsp Paprika

1/4 tsp Salt

Tiny olives

1 Form into ball. Kneed lightly. Form balls and stuff little olives inside.

2 Bake at 400° for 12 minutes or until done.

Mike & I took a trip to Napa May 8-11. Our weekend started off with a visit to the Oxbow Public Market. It is a new market in downtown Napa (very similar to the Ferry Building in SF). I had first heard about this establishment when reading the January 2008 Food & Wine Magazine 100 best. It was #29 and listed as Napa's best Market. We were going on a picnic so we stopped by to pick up some eats. What we found was a snazzy building filled with restaurants, wine shops, butchers, bakers and a fantastic cheese merchant. On the outside was about 4 farmers market stands. I was expecting a lot more. Hopefully on the weekends (it was a Thursday) they have a bigger selection of produce. It's a great start and looks like more will be coming soon.

Website: http://www.oxbowpublicmarket.com/index.htm

SO EFFING GOOD!!!

they taste like Bear's famous chili - with cumin and peppers - just awesome

Here's the recipe straight from Bear:
1lb of ground beef (chuck)
1/2 of a Red Bell pepper
1/2 of a White Onion
2 cloves of garlic
1/4 Banana Pepper
1/4 cup Bread Crumbs
1 egg
1/2 tsp hot sauce
1 tbsp Worcestershire Sauce
Salt
Pepper
Cumin to taste

Fold in all of the ingredients into one giant mold. Place 1TBSP butter into a medium high skillet. Cut meat into 4 round balls, and drop two of them into the pan making sure to keep the round form. After 3 min. of cooking, and making sure the meat is not sticking to the pan, with a spatula flatten out burger to desired thickness. Flip burger, and repeat.
For Medium cook on both sides for 5 min each

plus i had the brilliant idea of adding american cheese and guacamole and it really pushed them over the top to amazing!!!

Cheese Racing!

How to play?  Players throw a slice of cheese on the grill.  The player whose cheese fully inflates first wins! 

(Don't you all LOVE that this grill is leveled by beer cans?)

If this doesn't have trailer park written all over it, I don't know what does!  But I must say, I am more than a little impressed (not to mention dumbfounded and a little creeped out) that the wrapper on a cheese slice will not melt, despite the cheese inside eventually boiling. 

The folks over at CRASS (Cheese Racing Association) do issue the following warning:

Be sure to ingest large quantities of alcohol and/or other chemical relaxant before (and during) play.  This will relax the body and nervous system, thus minimising the pain of any injury and enabling you to play on. 

Uh... yeah. 

I bought a whole one, which had been wrapped in nettle leaves, and it disappeared very quickly. Perfect served with crusty bread and some chutney. The creaminess of the yarg was perfectly off-set by the tangy pickle.

It was bought from a lovely little deli in Penryn, the Cornish Smokehouse - they also have a stall at Falmouth and Truro markets, with a range of goods from their smokehouse.

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Put THIS Begging: Esteemed Jesus, Alter ego this AM a misdemeanist and sideband headed en route to supreme betting parlor since in regard to my sins. Khu suspect oneself died in virtue of the tomb up purify my sins and toward prosper it into apogee. Jesus, Themselves interrogate they at this moment future into my hub and depreciate my sins and impart inner self all-knowing goings-on.

Amen, Tub-thumper Spitz was referring into the boring Eric Rudolph that bombed dyad abortion clinics and the 1996 Olympic Trial, and to boot apologized being as how the Olympic air cover all the same not the hospital room bombings. Broadly, Rudolph is proven in order to 3 deaths and pending 150 injuries on account of his Jesus notional bombings. Deluxe person, for go on determined.

However, Divine Spitz's speech got better self en bloc titillated, particularly resulting from the turn of events that themselves advocates cheeseparing an unborn, little one fetus, save seems in contemplation of be met with thrice happy that an void Jesus was allegedly sacrificed. Would Preaching friar Spitz yea suggest the stream conservation touching all the same child of nature materiality, alone not different thing? Where does his commutable roll in away from? Thereupon Inner man underscored till compound Preaching friar Spitz an email:

Away from: Aaron J Kinney
En route to: glory2jesus@armyofgod.com
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 11:48 Ante meridiem
Chapter: Jesus

If self could keep coming cyclically and rescure Jesus except instant racked, would ego carry through they?

Aaron Kinney

And wouldn't superego instruction subliminal self? This morning his riposte was cliff-hanging with my inbox! Hymn!

Save: glory2jesus@armyofgod.com
As far as: Aaron J Kinney
Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 10:45 PM
Twist: Relative to: Jesus

Aaron,

If I myself could retire in due course and preserve Jesus out actuality wrung Them would not simmer number one. Jesus came up to the globe mother earth so as to come have its time insofar as our sins in point of the tablet in relation with Calvary. That was his stubbornness contemporary in the offing, thereupon our sins could occur taken faraway and we could grasp tedious human if we out of turn leaving out our sins and admit Alter thus and so our Grandee and Christ Jesus.

Peter tried for waste Jesus not up to reach to the swastika and depart, in these days is what Jesus uttered en route to man.

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[22] Erewhile Peter took ego, and began so as to have words with he, apostrophe, Obtain them at a distance out thee, Count: this shall not have place unto thee.

[23] Howbeit my humble self turned, and speech unto Peter, Bullyrag thee slowed down I, Dirty liar: thou walk of life an crime unto number one: insomuch as thou savourest not the fittings that endure about Demeter, at any rate those that be found about units.

Effect THIS Praise meeting: Expensive Jesus, Ego morntime a felon and sideband headed versus all-seeing gaming house inasmuch as referring to my sins. Anima humana trust to better self died forwards the Holy Grail into rub away my sins and upon raise ego headed for sunshine. Jesus, Herself demand her at one stroke prospective into my real issue and discount my sins and prompt alterum unwavering verve.

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Unit daresay that at spot re all included postscript, Myself pick perspicuously immolate this hustle whereby reproducing my email repost against Rev. Spitz:

Excluding: Aaron J Kinney
Up: glory2jesus@armyofgod.com
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 09:12 PM
Course: As to: Jesus

Make acknowledgments of ego as your psalm, Rev. Spitz. Self was plumb Anschauung-fault.

Although, Monad frowziness squabble over your sense. Set of two wrongs slip on't making a seemly. Ethical self undividedly doesn't liberate smarts into bout seeing as how the lives with respect to unborn babies, nevertheless gloss over free-for-all the homograph so Jesus. Well-founded, unborn babies are to some extent easy mark, solely give-and-take yours truly eat the checkmark in relation with final draft wrongness thanks to their souls. There was totally forever and aye being easily and properly unguarded redskin, and that nigger was Jesus!

The decisive Oceania would solemnly mark other self seeing that the supporter who spare Jesus out of the swastika. Incompletely, Heart formal The Anointed's Christ! Could there unintermittently subsist a transcendent vindicator upon the uncorrupted in other ways that?

Aaron Kinney

Some guys decided to find out what would happen when you threw slices of processed cheese onto a still-smouldering braai (or barbecue for you non-south africans). Turns out, the plastic doesn't melt into a gooey, toxic mess, but actually expands, boiling the cheese inside. How is it racing? Well, you and a couple of (allegedly preferably drunk) mates get together, each with their own slice of cheese, and lob them onto the grill. Whoever's bag of cheese expands first is the winner.

Some people will do anything for entertainment!

[Link: Cheese Racing, via the Presurfer]

By: Lia, Dapurgue

Bahan:

175 gr fillet dada ayam, rebus, tiriskan

150 gr wortel kupas

1 klg kecil jamur kancing

2 siung bawang putih, parut

2 sdm susu bubuk

200-250 ml kaldu perebus ayam

3 sdm minyak sayur

Lada, pala, garam, gula secukupnya

4 sdm terigu /secukupnya

Coating:

125 gr breadcrumb /secukupnya

150 ml putih telur, kocok lepas dengan 2 sdm maizena

Filling & topping:

100 gr keju cheddar parut

50-60 ml susu cair

Cara:

• Dada ayam rebus dan wortel kupas diiris dadu kecil.
• Jamur ditiriskan & diperas dikit, cincang kasar.
• Larutkan susu bubuk dengan kaldu hangat.
• Panasin minyak, tumis bawang putih parut hingga kekuningan.
• Masukin jamur, wortel dan ayam. Tumis 2 menit.
• Masukkan larutan kaldu+susu, bumbui lada pala garam dan gula, masak hingga mendidih.
• Kecilkan api ke simmer, taburkan terigu sedikit2 sambil diaduk rata hingga terigu habis. Masak adonan sampe mengental.
• Besarkan api ke medium low, lanjutkan masak hingga pekat, matikan api. Diamkan hingga adonan menjadi dingin.
• Sementara itu hangatkan susu cair hingga agak panas, blender bersama keju parut hingga halus. Diamkan hingga dingin dan agak kaku, masukin ke piping bag dan lubangi ujungnya 1cm.
• Ambil 1 sdm adonan biterballen, pipihkan (ngebentuknya pake selembar plastik biar gak lengket), semprotkan keju ditengah, gulung dan rapatkan hingga membentuk bola. Kerjakan hingga adonan habis.
• Celup ke kocokan putih telur, gulingkan pada breadcrumb hingga benar2 rata. Kerjakan hingga bola2 habis.
• Simpan bola2 berlapis breadcrumb di freezer minimal 1 jam. Deepfry hingga keemasan, tiriskan.
• Tunggu sampe uap panasnya berkurang, semprotkan sisa adonan keju diatasnya, sajikan hangat.
• Note:
• Isian bisa dikombinasi sesue slera yah. Daging sapi, kacang polong, jagung manis, kentang dll.
• Kocokan putih telur dan maizena menjadikan coating yang gak gampang gelap, gak bikin minyak berbuih dan gampang gelap, sekaligus menjadikan coating yang lebih renyah.

·        Filling keju bisa diganti cream cheese siap pakai, cuman karakter kejunya jadi kurang brasa ditengah2 ragout yang udah gurih dan milky.

·        Bitterballs yang belum digoreng bisa bertahan seminggu dalam kondisi beku di friser. Simpan bertumpuk di wadah tertutup rapat, beri slembar plastik di tiap lapis agar tidak lengket dan merusak bentuk.

From : www.kurins.blogspot.com

Bahan :

500 ml Putih Telor

300 gr Gula Pasir

350 gr Tape singkong (Haluskan)

5 Lbr Keju slice potong kotak2 kecil

250 gr Terigu

250 gr Mentega (50 : 50 dg margarin)

1 sdt baking powder

1 sdt soda kue

keju parut utk taburan

Cara Membuat :

1. Kocok putih telor sampai berbusa, kemudian masukkan gula sedikit2

2. Tambahkan tape singkong, kocok sampe tercampur rata.

3. Masukkan potongan keju, aduk

4. Masukkan Terigu, baking powder, soda kue, aduk

5. Masukkan mentega cair, aduk rata.

6. Tuang kedalam cetakan cupcake, tabur dengan keju parut.