boil you in oil

our shrimp turned out well last night. i chopped parsley and garlic, and tossed those in little cazuelas along with olive oil, dried chile arbol, and salt. i heated that up on the stove top, and cooked the shrimp in there.

meanwhile, i toasted some thick slices of country bread with olive oil and marinated roma tomato slices (i marinated them just in sherry and olive oil with salt and pepper). once those had toasted some, i topped them with slices of muenster cheese and got them all bubbly under the broiler. yes, i did slack and used muenster instead of homemade queso freso.

overall it turned out very well. i think that next time i would use more garlic and parsley, however. i want the garlic/parsley to oil ratio to be more even, so it is
almost like a paste but not quite. all in all, though, it was delicious and a little different than what we normally do (we're generally based in french techniques and this was very spanish). the toasted bread was especially good dipped into the garlicky olive oil. nevermind that it already had oil and cheese on it. it was good. :)



not sure what we're having for dinner tonight. i have some broccoli rabe to use, so it will be something with that. i've left bryan in charge.

not much else going on. trying to decide where to hang all my pictures. i have lots of them so figuring out the perfect arrangement is proving difficult. bryan's dad is flying up this weekend to spend a few days with us, so i spent some time prepping the guest room last night (which mainly meant moving the piles of baby stuff somewhere else). i stayed up until *10:30* last night and would you believe, i am pretty tired today. maybe i need another nap this afternoon. too bad someone scheduled a 4pm meeting. what is up with that?