beaucoup de beurre

It's spring break!! YAY!! Well, not really so exciting.. I've done a whole lot of nothing this week. As in today I literally watched half of the first season of Desperate Housewives on Hulu. But I guess that's acceptable every once in a while. Tomorrow I'm going to try to plant some herbs, so that might be interesting.

I did make a big French dinner for my family on Monday night, so that was fun. I made Poulet Sauté Aux Herbes de Provence, green beans, special mashed potatoes, and Gateux a l'orange. All Julia Child recipes except for the potatoes, which are a John Price recipe that I can't get enough of. I was able to find a chicken that was already butchered, so that was wonderful to not have to do that myself, as it doesn't turn out very pretty. The chicken was fairly easy, just cooked in butter and herbs with a hollandaise-type sauce poured over it. Honestly, it would have been just fine without the sauce. Not that the sauce was bad, it was just pretty good on its own. The green beans were not very good. I used frozen beans and then cooked them with lemon juice and butter, as the recipe said. It was an odd taste combination I thought. The cake was very good, and not terribly hard. I don't think my icing turned out quite right, as it ended up being more of a glaze, but it was still delicious. It actually tasted remarkably like the sauce on the All Steak's orange rolls. So a good mistake.

Let me just say that I used four sticks of butter in this meal. FOUR. I actually used light margarine because of the horrible amount, but still. Four sticks of light margarine is still a whole lot.

In other news, Duke is officially heartworm-free!! Unfortunately, he has had an awful case of diarrhea since we've been home. I think he's confused and misses Phoenix. Poor puppy :( But it is getting annoying to clean up his messes, as he never fails to go on the carpet.

It's my birthday on Monday!!! I get to celebrate with my family and go shopping this weekend, so yayyy!!

à toute à l'heure!