I think that we might become good friends….

TOG (my special Uncle Dick) sent me a cookbook that he likes. It is called “The Joy of Eating French Food” by Renny Darling. I liked it from the start. Notice, it’s not called the Joy of Cooking French Food, but EATING French Food. Won me over immediately. But it took awhile for me to pull it out and say “so, let’s get cooking!”. The spirit hit last night and I made Chewy French Bread Sticks with Onions and Roast Chicken Breasts in Tomato & Wine Sauce.

Thumbs up for both. The bread stick recipe came recommended by The Old Geezer. It was a surprise. Mix together a bread dough using the KitchenAid bread hook and without a rising step, shape into bread sticks and bake right away. I am not sure I rolled them as thin as called for, but they looked very charming and tasted even better. The chicken with tomato and wine sauce (including many mushrooms, carrot slices and chopped onions) was also very good. We had just bottled up this year’s BOTE wine with my wine class, so I pulled out a bottle of white wine for the recipe. We all ended up chipping in $50 each for the 46 bottles of wine we each brought home. Hmm. Better than Two Buck Chuck both in economy and taste! Good for cooking…. but also good for enjoying with Renny’s meal.

I know we’ll be eating dinner and other meals together again many times…there are lots of recipes just calling out “Sue… Sue… try me”. And I will.