Pie in Episode 3

Lemon Meringue Pie

Raspberry Pie

Pie, the next most important thing after education and family.
So I cheated a little and just bought a few ready made pies.  Still enjoyable and possibly better than I would have been able to make.  Really enjoyed the lemon meringue.

Some Delicious Risottoes

Pea Risotto

Garlic Risotto

Butternut Squash Risotto

Chicken Spinach and Pumpkin Risotto

Chicken and Roasted Pumpkin Risotto

I'm working my way through the forty one risottos and actually cooking regularly for the first time in about 10 months, but it has still taken about a month to get through about 7 risotto recipes, so not that regularly.  I think I enjoyed the garlic risotto the most and the sweet potato one with bacon.  Mmm.  I'm pretty okay with any type of risotto though, but may tire quite soon of them.

Some Episode 4 and 5 Dishes

Tea. This is actually a dark chocolate infused black tea. Very nice.

Another risotto.  This one is chicken risotto with zucchini and asparagus.

Turkey melt with lemon and cayenne pepper.

Some hothouse tomatoes for my tomato salad.

Hothouse tomato salad.

Two Dishes

This recipe was very simple and quite nice, although I'm not sure it quite turned out the way it was supposed to for my fear of burning the butter.  I don't think it was quite as brown as it was supposed to be.  It was sort of weird eating pasta coated in butter, which is essentially what the sauce is.  Today's healthy eating advice doesn't quite fit with such a recipe, but enjoyable all the same.

Handkerchief Pasta with Brown Butter and Sage Sauce

Sweet Potato Risotto (Risotto 2)

My second risotto. Remember the episode where Sookie makes her famous risotto and it gets a 'fine' review.  She tries forty different risottos just to check that hers really is the best, so this is number two of forty! Really nice, but I think I could have darken the bacon a bit more ;).

Doublemint

I ended up having to buy a whole box of this chewing gum just to try it as it isn't generally sold here in Aus, so still working my way through it years later.  I'm not used to gum with sugar in it and so don't like to chew too much of this stuff for fear of rotting my teeth ;).  We mostly just have artificially sweetened gum here, which probably damages all other parts of my body, but spares my teeth ;) so there you go.

Mushrooms, Trout and Reisling

A lovely meal.  The trout was beautiful, but the recipe left the mushrooms with a little too much lemony zing.  I feel a bit gourmet eating such fair, and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Melon Medley

I wasn't sure which type of melon was referred to so...