35 cottage: September 2009

Friday, September 25, 2009

Here today, gone to napa...

we are going to napa for crush (when they pick the grapes) this weekend.

we were just there in july so this will be our second trip of the year!!!

meeting jeff's brother and sister in law for a mini vacation.

stay tuned for another crazy adventure in food...

Thursday, September 24, 2009

after 25 long days at the first repair shop (our insurance didn't think some of the repairs were necessary) we had it towed to another repair shop and this is what our poor car looked like. the card board box was filled with parts. It was so sad to see our car in this condition. We never expected it to ever be the same...

they worked on it right away and 2 weeks later, we picked it up today!!!
almost like new... just hope we can keep it that way

Wednesday, September 23, 2009

short ribs, anyone???

for a while we have been eating some really good short ribs at restaurants. so we decided to make some at home...

here is the recipe we used. we looked on line at several different

ones and this seemed the best and some what easy.

the recipe required making a brine (salt, brown sugar and bay leaf)

2 cups of each. omg!!! that seemed way too salty but we vowed to

make it exactly like the recipe. put the short ribs in for 3 hours, we

sort of got behind and left it in for almost 4 hours....

had to brown each piece, we had 6.

celery, carrot and onion, oh my...

stack of browned short ribs

cooking the veggies, looks pretty good

added wine, chicken stock, short ribs and vegetables. after an hour of cooking.

over all the short ribs were good. forgot to take a picture of the dinner but here are the leftovers. i guess we will try them again but maybe a different recipe...