Happy Mother’s Day
I went home for the weekend to visit dear ol’ mom. The girlie and I left later than usual, thanks mostly to me. Oh well, first time for everything I suppose. We decided to try a different route home. A route that friends had convinced me was faster. However, they neglected to tell me that there is a loop around a small town on the way. So after half an hour of scenic “downtown” Brenham and a drive-by tour of BlueBell we finally found our way back to the highway. After the trip I felt like I had lost hours of my life that I am never going to get back. Much the same feeling I had after watching The Passion of the Christ or Napoleon Dynamite.
The trip went well, great food. We had good crawfish with good spice. It seems like only my family can handle any sort of spice. Everyone else are such weenies. Great burgers. They put some garlic, some jalapenos, some onion and I don’t know what else in it. But they are just outstanding.
I brought my mom home some food stuff she can’t get down there in the armpit of Texas. Creme Brulee, Turtle Cheesecake and a couple other assorted desserts. But the thing that I thought she would like the most was the Lavash with different types of stuffed olives and some red pepper flaked goat cheese. I don’t think she was disappointed at all.
Then for mother’s day itself I made a rather elaborate meal (well, elaborate for me). I stole a recipe from Food Network for Poached Eggs with Chipotle Dressing and Avocado Relish and Andouille Hollandaise. I also made homemade buttermilk pancakes, my hashbrowns and some bacon. It was a very large meal, but I was really impressed with the eggs and their assorted sauces/compliments. They were very tasty. The Avocado Relish was like a guacamole crossed with pico de gallo. The Chipotle Dressing was very spicy and mixed with the Avocado Relish made a really good dip that I may start making for parties. And then there was the Andouille Hollandaise. That is going to start going on many more of my dishes, cause that was just damned tasty.
Anyways, I’m pretty sure she enjoyed it, even if I did make the mess in her kitchen. I love ya mom.
May 11th, 2005 at 2:34 am
I loved everyting!!!!! Most of all I was so glad to have you home for M-day. It was a great visit and great food that I will never get again because it was too damn hard to fix. You know me…if you have to cook it well forget it. We are still using the Chipotle dressing as a dip for chips….now that is too tasty. Well, gotta go get the B-day boy up — — hello you have to work even on your B-day in the real world. See you soon and I love you. Thanks for the great gift on M-day. Mom