A Comforting Easter

I returned from Mexico City on Saturday night but before I gather my thoughts on the trip, I thought I’d thank my mom for cooking lots of non-Mexican food for me on Easter Sunday.

Breakfast/Brunch started at about 11 with some delicious Kielbasa, babka, and fruit salad. There’s not a lot of meats that I like more than kielbasa and thanks to the polish half of my family it has engrained itself in my diet as a go-to comfort food, something much needed after all of the weird stuff I ate in Mexico.
After snacking on pie crust cookies (mad with lard, yum!) for the afternoon, dinner consisted of rack of lamb with a panko, garlic and rosemary crust, mushroom risotto, roasted tomatoes and asparagus with lemon. We also had a salad of bibb lettuce, marinated fennel, blood orange, and avocado with a grapefruit pistachio vinaigrette. The meal went very nicely with the ’06 Dutcher Crossing Sauvignon Blanc and the ’04 Miner Cabernet Sauvignon.

For dessert we had one of the all time favorite things that my mom and my grandmother make: Coconut Custard Pie. A very delicious end to a comforting return home.


In other new, I'm going to Momofuku Ko tonight!