damn that looks good...

This is what comes of watching the Food Network (and on an unrelated note, World Cup Hockey). I've got a couple of ideas I want to try out this year, mostly food. Found a great recipe for winter, a chicken-sausage ragu on top of parsley-butter pasta. Goes well with salad and appetizers made of mini-breadsticks, parmesan cheese, radicchio or dandelion leaves, and italian deli meat. Wine too. It's a meal for many, so will probably invite some friends over to help eat.

Another is an "Eton Mess", which is a chocolate pavlova (sort of baked meringue that's crispy on the outside and soft and moist on the inside) topped with mounds of whipped cream, raspberries and topped off with chocolate flakes. Yum. Sounds like "cake and martinis" party kind of fare. Might do that after I get this damn brace off (carrying a martini glass with crutches not the best idea)...

Saw a show about a restaurant in Montreal, "Cube" in the St. Paul Hotel. Has a main floor restaurant area as well as a second-floor raw bar lounge (uncooked foods, like sashimi). The decor is interesting, square-themed dark and modern, and they have this one appetizer called "Salmon Three Ways" which is a terrine, sashimi, and something else that looks yummy but unidentifiable. Don't know the prices or service, but would be worth taking a look.

Chicken and Andouille Sausage Ragu:
http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/107676

Eton Mess:
http://www.ece.ualberta.ca/~aleung/Eton_Mess.doc

Cube:
http://www.hotelstpaul.com/en/cube.asp
http://www.foodtv.ca/tv/shows/titledetails/title_46610.asp

cheers, Ange (nu-B Fu-D)