February Dinner Complete

Wow - amazing food!!!!  I am stuffed, happy and so thankful to get to do some yummy cooking with family each month.  It feels great to relax in the kitchen cooking up great meals with a small glass of wine and lots of smiles.

We cooked up quite the selections this month:


Main Course:

1.  Maple Balsamic Glazed Pork Tenderloin from Epicurious

Sides:

1.  Three Cheese Garlic Scalloped Potatoes from allrecipes.com

2.  Mukimame and Corn

Three Cheese Garlic Scalloped Potatoes

Prepping potatoes

Salad:

1.  Homemade Vinaigrette with greens - the recipe I used


** Other amazing vinaigrette recipes to try:

Emeril Lagasse Vinaigrette:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/emeril-lagasse/simple-balsamic-vinaigrette-recipe.html

Allrecipes.com Vinaigrette:
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Balsamic-Vinaigrette/Detail.aspx?evt19=1


Dessert:
1.  Homemade Creme Brulee by Alton Brown
Jeremy made the dessert!!  One of his goals is to bake something from a famous chef from Food Network each month.  Last month was some amazing blueberry pancakes.

Prepping the Vanilla Bean.

Ready - aim - fire!

This is what a vanilla bean looks like...
then you scrape out the inside of it.