from one kitchen to another

oh... another day... another meal,
why have a blah meal when you can
have a super great one? especially
when living in NYC, FINE food heaven :)

My friend Lori, had a friend, Jonathan, from Canberra, Australia visit nyc with his lovely girlfriend Shanie. They stayed with me for a couple of nights and we went to Angelica's kitchen, a lovely vegan/vegetarian and organic restaurant, with delicious desserts! This ---> was a peach and raspberry shortcake, made with spelt, instead of wheat flour. it was deliciously moist, soft and the raspberry/peach puree were both tangy, summing it up, it was quickly inhaled!~

We also ordered this plum parfait! also pretty freakin' delicious! It definitely is a simple thing to make, you layer fruit, nuts or granola, with a cream of some sort (this one was with walnut cream). and it looks SO pretty in a cute glass!!

I will definitely try to serve something like this sometime :)

mean while, not far away, in a kitchen on the upper east side, the oven was on, the salad was chopped and hungry tummies were ready to be fed! Bing and I invited Lily for dinner, we mainly wanted to use up ingredients in our fridge :)

I made a "simple" cob salad, shake-and-bake chicken and a shell pasta with tomatoes and basil :) simple and delicious! We washed all this down with a bottle of Bordeaux :)

here's the cob salad
it was pretty easy! but i haven't had bacon in such a long time, it's so easy to remember how delicious BACON is! what a great invention! who ever invented it deserves a BIG delicious cookie! made with spelt! haha!

Genius, me, forgot to take photos of the shake and bake chicken! it did turn out pretty good, but com'on, it's shake and bake, not rocket science! i'll make it again next time!

I really strongly feel that you can't really "mess" up pasta either! yes, you can over cook it, under cook it, but aside from that, there's really not a whole lot that can go wrong with pasta. its so versatile! almost as delicious as quinoa!

Since i had fresh basil around, i chopped it up,
threw it in with a can of cooked whole tomatoes
(which i chopped up too) threw in a bunch of
frozen organic peas and mixed it all up together
with my shell pasta! with a sprinkle of shredded
cheese on top :)