raspberry jam cookies.

A little experiment, putting jam in the dough rather than on top of the cookie.











































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french martini.

One night, after a day painting the studio for the degree show, we headed out to go listen to Kitty the Lion play at Stereo. Toni's friend Anna is the lead singer, so we went (basically) as a class to go support her!

But before, we decided to meet up at The Hummingbird for half price cocktails! Ohh their cocktails are so good, they almost rival Firenze's Art Bar...

I ordered a French Martini, mostly because I love raspberries. It had Chambord in it, and I've always wanted to try that. It was just as I had expected, except I forgot that it was alcohol (I guess I get too excited about fruit-flavored things?), so the bitter taste was a surprise in the beginning. It was quite enjoyable though!

Here, watch the cute bartender make my drink...












Kitty the Lion was AMAZING. I genuinely enjoyed the music, and Hannah and I danced the entire time, regardless of the fact that no one else had the stones to (C'MON EVERYBODYYYY).

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lemon zest cookies.

It finally started to get warmer in Glasgow. Warmer weather means summer means sunny thoughts means lemons! James and Kathy had a barbeque dinner at their flat, so I brought some cookies. Lacking a zester (a surprisingly useful tool), I used a peeler and then chopped away.






The bad thing about letting food blog entries pile up is that sometimes you forget what the foods tasted like. I remember these being buttery creamy and quite soft...almost cake-like on the inside! A far cry from the usual biscotti that I make. I don't remember if they were too sweet or not, but everyone seemed to enjoy them and that was the point!





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ricotta and apple spaghetti.

On the farm I stayed at in Italy, I worked everyday from 8 until 12, eating a simple breakfast of bread + jam + fruit + tea in the morning, and coming home to a filling spaghetti dish for lunch.

Maria made ricotta and apple spaghetti a couple of times, and I loved it. She used olive oil from the farm and a variety of spices that neither of us could translate. Giuseppe loved putting paprika on it (well, everything really...), so I thought that I would recreate the dish using paprika instead of throwing random spices in.

I chopped up some apple (gala, I believe) while the spaghetti water boiled. Threw in salt (the more the better!), the spaghetti, and when the noodles were almost al dente, I tossed in the apple bits to boil a little. Strained everything, mixed in some ricotta with the spaghetti/apple bits, drizzled some olive oil and sprinkled on some paprika.




I promptly brought this to the studio to eat during lunch. It was really good! I think that it would have tasted a little stronger if I had used really good olive oil (or perhaps a very very small amount of garlic? no, onions!). The ricotta made the spaghetti just rich enough to be very filling. I'll have to try to make it with my own ricotta, now that I know how to make it (wait until I put up photos from my 21st birthday weekend...)!

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grilled salmon on zucchini risotto.

There was some crazy seafood sale at Marks + Spencer's (the one out of four times I bought food there...), so that night I had some yummy garlic grilled salmon with risotto...the usual recipe, but with zucchini pieces in it. The zucchini made the risotto slightly sweeter and added color, which was the original reason why I added it to the dish. Of course, you can't really see the green bits here.




A little spritz of lemon juice and it's good to go.
A couple of days later, I discovered that garlic grilled salmon goes tremendously well with a spinach and lancastershire (I think) cheese salad.

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croissant with jam.

There is nothing better than a warm buttery snack after a day of shopping.




Check out that stone pot the jam came in. How cute! From Vanilla Black (Ariel's favorite) on Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow, Scotland.

not pictured: iced coffees in coca cola flared flute glasses.

zucchini fritters.

A thousand apologies for being M.I.A on this blog. I've got SO many posts to catch up on, all from Glasgow...


I believe this dinner was a collaboration with Ariel. I chopped up some zucchini, added flour, cheese, egg, salt, pepper, and fried little patties in olive oil. Ariel prepared a little salad in a bowl for each of us. The fritters went on top and we drizzled the whole thing in olive oil and balsamic vinegar. What a perfect amount of food.


(sorry for the crappy quality)

YUM!

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