Tuesday, June 29, 2010

wal...NUTS!!!
I recently went to a neighborhood potluck. Fun right. Actually it was. Nice people, good food, stimulating conversation. It was a potluck and I brought a salad that was on the menu at "Sweetpeas". It required candied walnuts, which I candied in my cast iron skillet, which was on my stove top...as usual. It was delicious with Amish blue cheese, D'anjou pears (thinly sliced), the aforementioned walnuts all on a bed of spinach, with a swirling of poppy seed vinaigrette. My kids enjoyed it as well as the participants of the potluck. When I returned home, my husband smiled a sweet loving smile and asked a very simple question. "Did you make that salad with candied walnuts from the restaurant?" I answered, "Yes." He then asked, "what pan did you use?" I stated that I had used my cast iron skillet. He said, "funny thing! Yesterday I cooked bacon in that pan and I let the dog lick out the bacon grease and then put it back up on the stove." Really, someone really thought it might be a good idea to let a dog clean a pan with her tongue and then put said pan on the stove top? Oh, husband I love thee...