Monthly Archives: February 2011

A Fishy Puff Pastry Feast

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Puff Pastry Fish
I have been on a recent kick of making our usual food dishes into something more fun and pretty to eat. It makes my family a little more happy when they sit down at the dinner table. We try to eat one seafood meal a week so this time I tried decorating with puff pastry.

I chose a recipe by Rachel Ray called Salmon En Croute. Since it’s dinner for 2 and one toddler in this house… I halved the recipe, used 1 sheet of puff pastry. I also made a few ingredient changes, including a generous helping of chopped fresh spinach instead of the parsley. Rather than making individual portions, I created one large family style puff pastry fish. This dish was extremely tasty, thank you Rachel Ray! I will definitely be making this one again.

My 2 year old son also had a blast watching me build this fish. He helped with cutting out the circles for the scales and absolutely loved “painting the fish” with the egg wash. Overall, it took about 15 minutes to assemble (after preparing the ingredients).
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Decorative Bread

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Tea Time with beautiful bread

We live in the bay area and when sightseeing in the city we love to go by the Boudin shop window to check out the incredible sour dough breads on display in the shapes of all sorts of animals. I have always wanted to try it out myself, I mean how difficult can it be? I found out not very, but it will take LOTS of practice before my bread creations start looking like Boudins! I also found some cool examples on the web regarding bread painting (specifically by Chef Tess), so I incorporated that technique into this experiment as well. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with the fun creations I was able to turn out!
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I ♥ French Toast

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Heart Shaped French Toast

Heart shaped cookie cutters can do more than just make cookies in February, use them year round to make a special breakfast for the ones you love most.

Sometimes I wake up to both a grumpy toddler and a grumpy husband, so when I made these french toast hearts for breakfast yesterday it completely changed the overall mood in our home.

I reused the Linzer heart shaped cookie cutter center for the butter cutout, and a larger heart cutter for the bread. The bread scraps don’t have go to waste, I just make small french toast strips.

My favorite fluffy french toast recipe.

Pizza Boy

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Pizza fun faces for kids

While I was getting dinner started yesterday, my 2 year old son asked me if he could play with the pizza dough, I realize he thought it was play dough! So, I thought, well why not? And so, pizza boy was created.

After baking, yummy

After baking, yummy

I flipped a cereal bowl upside down onto the rolled out dough, then using a knife, cut around the bowl to make a nice circle for the face.

Brushed the dough with melted olive oil and chopped garlic (I microwave the oil and garlic for about 1 minute to soften the garlic a bit and flavor the oil). Then added some chopped basil, cherry tomatoes, olives, with plenty of mozzarella cheese.

My son was giggling and participating in the whole process. He was so excited while waiting for “pizza boy” to cook in the oven (about 10-12 min @ 350). He ate everything, narrating exactly what part of the face he was about to eat. Talk about making dinner fun!

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