rob put out a nice spread of eggs, bacon (not pictured), strawberries and yogurt, and some homemade bagels. though i have made bagels myself--with sarah back in ye olde grad schoole days, from a nigella recipe--these were boiled and baked by a woman who lives a few blocks away. she has a big brick oven in her backyard and she makes crusty loaves of bread and bagels to order on the weekends. you pre-order, she puts the baked goods in a cooler on her porch, and you leave your check or cash. fun, huh?speaking of cottage industry food, i was introduced to d'alessandro pasta to go in rock island by my carpool friend sharon this week. the business is run by a 68-year-old italian woman using recipes for ravioli, manicotti, lasagna and sauces passed down by her 91-year-old mother (a good mother's day tie-in, no?). i took some home and we had their prosciutto ravioli and asparagus ravioli with marsala sauce for dinner on saturday. amazing. if you're dying to learn how to make and sell pasta in the quad cities, the business is for sale!
also, eleanor had her first bagel on sunday. she gummed it all up but good, then left most of it on the edge of exer-saucer when we took her out to play elsewhere. this didn't escape oscar's attention. just when we had forgotten all about it, he downed it in one swallow.
dear "the bomb"...
ReplyDeleteooh, the backyard oven! I knew we were missing something when we did those bagels at home. her bagels look impressive :) It looks like it was a good day. I am happy to see that you were able to track down the comments from previous posts. "we're here! we're reading!" Keep those cutie pics coming! xxoo