Sea scallops in sun dried tomato sauce with polenta.

sweet potato gnochi.

seafood pasta alfredo

This is the desert table. Two steaming apple/cranberry cobblers, one rasberry creme brulee, a couple of rice puddings and lots of molded chocolate.

...oh, and I almost forgot this one...Romantic, non?

The butler took this photo...just before dinner on Sunday. Bon Apetite.

Monday, February 8 - My breasts have been getting quite a bit of exposure...

...thanks to the awesome Amateur Gourmet. He put them on his site...and they were seen by many. Do check out this site. His writing is brilliantly funny and "taste-full"” and his food films and dinner songs are amazing. He and his beautiful Lolita rock!

February 7, 2005 - Another beautiful weekend. Worked on our cooking show, made breast cupcakes, ruined a keyboard...

On Friday night the gals came up. Cat and I did some more work on our cooking show(hopefully we'll have the first episode in the can by the end of the month). Here Lor and Jordy wait impaitiently for us to finish...so we can go out to dinner.

Had dinner at Two Steps, that verneralble Danbury dining institution. We had nachos, southwestern egg rolls, quesadillas, and of course tons of Margaritas..There are hundreds of decorated cowboy boots hanging from the ceiling. I decorated this one completely from Nouvelles Images cards. I think it's the most beautiful one there. (I say modestly).

I must have had a tad too much to drink cause later that night I spilled a small glass of Grand Marinier on the keyboard of my iMac...which, even after a delicate cleaning operation seems condemmed to a V, C and X less existance... But, the next day was beautiful and Sunday was the Super Bowl - which I always watch at the Hilltop with Cat and co....

Cat insisted the I bring a Super Bowl themed dessert. Inspired by the always inspiring (and brilliantly funny) Amateur Gourmet, and his voluptuous Breast Cupcakes, I whipped up these elegant little petit fours. (emphasis on the second syllable of the first word).

the game went on. I managed to ignore most of it. Even missed Paul McCartney's wardrobe malfunction...or was that just a vicious rumor.

modeling my creations for an adoring public.

February 2, 2005 - Now I remember why I used to love winter. I guess I still do...sometimes

The past several days have been beautiful! Brilliant blue sky and sparkling snow...and the temperatures were all the way up in the thirties, which is high for January 2005 in Danbury. Of course most days were spent at work...here's our snow covered office.

This handsome guy (gal?) was spotted several times in the trees surrounding our building. No wonder our street is called Eagle Road.

Friday, Saturday, Sunday, January 21-23, The first big snow storm of 2005.

Friday evening Cat, Jordy and Lor came up. We did some filming for our cooking show. Then had a snack at Applebys. This carosel horse presided over our table. He doesn't look too friendly.

Cat and Jordy ...Nachos oblige.

The next day, Saturday, it began to snow at about noon and just kept snowing... Nick and I decided the perfect solution would be ...fondue by the fire. I did both Bourguignon and Fromage.

Nick set everything up...perfectly, I might add.

Very important for fondue bourguignon...the sauces. In this case, horseradish, dijon mustard, steak sauce and tomato mayonaise.

Here the multi- talented Nick pours an extraordinary wine that he chose from our cellar...

His choice was absolutly, totally perfect.

I love dipping bread in bubbling cheese.

mmmm I can't get enough of this...but I guess I have to stop eating sometime soon.

Grapes (in solid form) are great dipped in cheese or plain. As you can see, our fondue party was a great success. Just Nick and I...and the perfect menu for a snowy, blustery day... and you know what? We hardly argued at all, about anything...which is really unusual for us.

It was still snowing on Sunday morning, but by early afternoon there was brilliant sunshine. I went out for a walk in the neighborhood. I Found our garage and our bird house covered with snow...the sky was a clear deep blue.

Our side street was still covered with snow.

It's hard to believe this privet hedge is full of bright green leaves all summer.

...and from the corner, our 1860's Victorian.

Our front path was cleared ...sort of.

our pretty front porch.

the classic white picket fence...today it's white on white.

Looking up the street past our house at the snow covered landscape.

In the other direction on Deer Hill there was just a narrow path cleared off.

This is another lovely Victorian on our street.

...love this English tudor style too.

...and walking back up the street, our house in the snowy distance.

I came back up on our porch and got this very cool shot. Nick is in the living room in front of the fire...holding the curtain open. On the outside of the window is the reflection of the snowy porch and street...and me taking the photo. Kind of multi-layered right?

When I got back inside everything looked so beautiful from the bright sunlight streaming in. These are my antique Irish lace curtains with Cranes. Which I love.

...and I took this photo in our dining room, looking out the window at our neighbor's house past my collection of vintage cordial glasses.

Here's how it looks close up. Love the shapes and shadows.

and how beautiful the late afternoon sun looked on this basket of fruit in our kitchen. It seems to glow.

We decided that dinner would be light...Soupe d'asperges a la creme. Elegant and easy. See my step-by- step guide to preparing it.

Wednesday, January 19, 2005 - So does that mean he's finally a metrosexual?

Today I went into Nick's bathroom for the first time in a while and noticed this full line of English toiletries. Plus he's been smelling really good lately.

Friday, January 14, 2005 - Colly's Birthday celebrated with dinner, drinks and birthday cake.

We began the evening at Abis, a raucous Japanese place in Greenwich. The habachi chef turned a sliced onion into a steaming volcano type thing.

...however I'm not susceptible to steaming volcanos so I ordered sushi. Rolls not nearly as refined as I'm used to, but delicious none the less.

After dinner we went down to the Hilltop...Here's "Colleen the birthday queen" at the bar surrounded by her prezies.

Jordan gave Col a lottery ticket. Unfortunately it wasn't a winning ticket *<:^ (

Cat, Pat and Lor at the bar. No one seems interested in the TV...I wonder why.

Colleen cuts her cake... after removing a ton of candles *<:^ )