Cooking with Andy

Most of you know I really enjoy cooking. It is a creative process for me, and the mixing of ingredients together, all concocting something greater than just the sum of individual parts, is very satisfying to me.

I don't cook quite as much as I used to, and Sharlynn has been cooking more, but this weekend I got to put together some nice dishes. For my work lunches this week I prepared pasta and eggplant with a tomato and basil sauce. For me, a nice hearty pasta dish is comfort food, and this one is. Additionally, I love eggplant. Dom Deluise, in his cookbook says, "Eggplant to an Italian is like sex to a nymphomaniac."
Well, I would not go QUITE that far, but I really love eggplant. This dish is just comfort food all the way!

I also made sauteed scallops in a white wine sauce with sun-dried tomatoes and garlic. Served over linguine. Again---YUM-MY!

I made buckwheat muffins for my work lunches too, and a vegetable dish called broccoli and red pepper pie, with some breadcrumbs acting as the "crust." With garbanzo beans and an egg/parmesan mixture it can be a meal unto itself.

So that was my cooking this weekend. No disasters, which sometimes happens.