cooking.night...

...at dali's house. On the menu: olive tapenade with crusty french bread, mixed salad, stuffed peppers, and mini-financiers au miel (honey almond bites). Everything was delicious, per usual. The stuffed peppers (on the right) had this unbelievably good rice/currant/cinnamon filling that i will definitely try again. I made the dessert this time, and got the recipe from clotilde dusoulier's cookbook, chocolate & zucchini, which andrea gave me. They were quite easy to make, and quite delicious as well. Definitely a keeper. When i was looking for a good dessert recipe, i spent about 2 hours perusing food sites including epicurious and allrecipes. When nothing struck me as just right, i grabbed this book, and immediately found several options i wanted to try. Narrowing it down to one was the tricky part, but i'm happy with the outcome. There they are on the left. The recipe made 22 mini muffins, and when we left, there were only two left. Mmm.mmm. Since dali's husband was home, we got him to take a picture of the four of us (and the two babies i'm petting). Here we are!