it's over! my brain feels fresher and i feel cleaner! it's time to eat again!

on to drinking OJ. i would master cleanse again. but when i stop to think about it (shut up, you) it's nearly impossible for me to do any month but january or febraury. if i'm cooking, i have to be able to taste it.
but this hiatus from cooking/eating has let me explore some new books, follow recipes wherever they might take me across the web, and watch cooking shows at midnight on the create channel with the most vague but cute norwegian lady on a boat in a fjord.
with that said, i have been thinking about this menu for awhile now. about 4 days, actually... but i like where it's going and hope i find an excuse to make this much food. did i mention i applied for foodstamps?


three onion free form tart with proscuitto or bacon
celeriac and fennel soup with thyme croute
winter vegetables with a parsley sauce
black cod with mushrooms on puy lentils and carrots
oxtails braised in red wine with bay leaf polenta
carrots and chard with lemon olive oil? or lemon vinaigrette
new potatoes and garlic with bacon(?) (curried?) creme fraiche
some kind of poached pear ice cream cookie dessert...

i thought about a bitter salad instead of the winter veg, but haven't been able to settle on anything. also considering anchovies in the tart, but i know everyone doesn't like them.

it's very rich, but i'm really excited to start trying out recipes. apparently seapac has a distribution center in salt lake, and rumour has it they let the average joe buy there... cross your fingers.

also really high on my list of things to make is tacos de lengua! sounds so good right now and i want to prove to myself i can skin a cow tongue and not puke. sounds like not too much work, but maybe time consuming to shred the meat.

the OTHER thing i really want to make that i've been thinking about for 3 days is tortellinis en brodo... the mario batali recipe on food network... there is *so* much meat in it! it's almost all meat. i'm game. it sounds REALLY labor intensive. if you would like to come over to eat it, you will have to roll some tortellinis with me:)

ok, ONE OTHER thing i reaallllyy want to make is a traditional lasagna. i've been looking at recipes eeevvverywhere and i want to make the sauces and the bolognese and the pasta all from scratch (no prob, bob!) and if i could, i'd grow the spinach too. i like the giada recipe on foodnetwork and also a random mario batali recipe...