I have been in a bit of a cooking frenzy lately that I’m going to blame on the depressingly cold weather outside. My body has been tricked into thinking winter is coming again and therefore I must gain 10 pounds by eating as many baked good as possible.
Thus far I have made scones, cookies and quiche and I’m not looking to stop anytime soon. Tonight’s menu included an avocado/strawberry salad and empanadas, made from a recipe from my new favorite website smittenkitchen.com.
V and I started out the night with a bottle of Malbec – the gloriously non-bitter red wine from Argentina. After drinking a glass of wine a little too fast, I started talking too much and cooking too little. But and hour and a half later, our golden brown beef empanadas were gloriously fragrant and ready to be dunked in tapatio sauce.
Chicago is brimming with so many remarkable restaurants, it can be hard to avoid the temptation of an easy dinner out. But after putting an hour’s worth a finger tip endangering work into a meal, it was perfect to sit down with the besty and consume the object of our labor.
So thank you Kafka’s Wine on Halsted for some smooth wine, smittenkitchen for supplying recipes I would never try unless you made them look so easy, kate for having the best god damn kitchen utensils in Chicago and V for being the besty.
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