When the garden hands you potatoes...

...make potato pizza!

We discovered some baby potatoes from last summer's potato crop when we were turning over the soil in our garden yesterday afternoon.  They were too perfect to just throw into something, so we made a potato pizza with homemade pizza dough with lots of fresh rosemary (from the herb garden), and then added some caramelized onions and a little cheese to hold it all in place.  Gropius couldn't resist the butter/radish appetizer once he read this month's issue of Sunset magazine.

So, we enjoyed pizza, pineapple margaritas and the Oscars last night.  How about you?

Bundt Cake

So, on Thurs evening, Gropius cooked lentils and made homemade pasta for dinner while I baked a cake for him to take to work the next day for a potluck luncheon.  After looking at our pantry (because we didn't want to have to go to the grocery store), we decided on a hazelnut variation of Dorie Greenspan's Walnut Mocha Bundt cake.  I had some hazelnut flour in the freezer, so after making an espresso for the mocha part, we were good to go!

Lulu wanted to help, so I let her pour the flour into the bowl, stir the dry ingredients, etc.  She wanted a cake of her own and even brought out her mini-bundt pan from the IKEA toy cooking set and I thought, "Why not?"  I buttered and floured her cake pan and we poured a little of the batter into hers, too.  And what do you know--it worked!  The end product looked more a fancy donut than a bundt cake (due to its size) but Lulu thought it was very cool.

I was really pleased with how the cake turned out, too. It was delicious! (of course I had to sample a piece!)