Ever walk through the woods and take a big breath and instantly and without trying create the evening meal or concur up a new concoction to create in the kitchen? Ever just get the feeling to make a batch of cookies or at least the dough or maybe it is a cake, a roast who know what but you just felt it come over you to make it? Cooking it is truly an amazing craft, skill, passion, art, entertainment, release, business, obsession and last but not least a necessity.   Just doing it can be easy to do, as you float through your day, week, month, year, life; but, once in a while to create, be inspired is awesome. Every time I host a cooking class, or cater a dinner party I always get the, “this is nice but I don’t have time, I work have kids. . .” so do I truth is so do many people but making a “real” meal from scratch can give you so much more then just food.  Many studies have concluded that homemade from scratch foods are healthy, and because you can actually spell and pronounce all of the ingredients you actually know what you are putting in your body. So take five and cut an onion, crack an egg or smoke a roast whatever you think of, feel like and most importantly going to do, do it with passion. 

Fall weekend menu

Appetizer

Smoked pheasant melt

~ Hearty wheat bread, sliced smoked pheasant, fontina cheese, caramelized onions, roasted peppers relish ~

Soup

Roasted winter squash bisque

~ Acorn, butternut and ambercup squashes blended with toasted brown rice finished with sage Chantilly cream and cumin tossed  roasted squash ~

Entrée

Grilled cowboy steaks

~ Bone in rib eye beef steak with maple-balsamic marinate served with fire roasted pearl onions, roasted garlic and mushroom compote, blue cheese baked potato, and creamed hardy greens ~

Dessert

Honey custard Sundae

~ Honey custard with salted pear caramel, peppered black walnuts and cayenne pear chips ~