April's Best-4/30/10

April ended for our family with a fun little road trip to Galveston to attend Richard's Ironman 70.3 triathlon. On the way there, we stopped in New Orleans to sample the world-famous beignets at Cafe Du Monde and take in a New Orleans Zephyrs baseball game. As you can tell, Eyrleigh approved of the beignets, though we traded out the classic cafe au lait for chocolate milk. We enjoyed the wonderful hospitality of our friends, Deb and Butch, in Houston and ate several wonderful meals with them. Deb even made the cover recipe from May's Bon Appetit for us. It was really good, though we all agreed cheese may have helped jazz up the pasta a bit. Richard was very pleased with his race. He finished a 1.2 mile swim, 56 mile bike, and 13.1 mile run in 5 hours and 54 minutes. We all enjoyed staying right at the race site, Moody Gardens Resort, with our friends, Jon and Laura. We visited another road food icon, Martin's in Montgomery, Alabama on the way home and had the best fried chicken and southern soul food ever.
Immediately upon returning home, Richard headed out to Salt Lake City on a business trip until the end of the month. I didn't make any more Bon Appetit recipes for just Eyrleigh and I. I finished the month only making 22 of 52 recipes, not exactly a representative sample but I'll pick a few standouts. I did make every cake in "The Great American Cake" article and 6 of 10 recipes in "Spring's Big Three". My favorite recipe was one of the cakes. The Lime Angel Food Cake with Lime Glaze and Pistachios on page 107 was outstanding. With a light and springy cake base, the citrusy sweet glaze was a perfect match for the crunchy pistachios. This was an excellent variation and a real flavor stand out. I didn't really have a dish that fit into the month's worse category. You can see by rating that I found some dishes a bit blah, like the Grilled Calamari with White Bean Stew, but nothing was terrible. Let's see if I can make over 30 recipes from next month's magazine.

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SLW said…
She looks so old!!!

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