Good Friday

As I was perusing Easter recipes this past week, I came across a few interesting menus on www.bonappetit.com, specifically spring salads. I really liked a few of them, like white bean and tuna with radicchio and parsley vinaigrette, and frisee and wild mushroom with poached egg, and this one: spring greens with smoked fish and herbed aioli. I thought the last one would be the perfect traditional Good Friday dinner. Plus, I've been meaning to try my hand at a homemade aioli recipe. I followed the recipe almost exactly, except I didn't have chives, and I did add a pinch of cayenne pepper, which I had seen in another aioli recipe.

whisking eggs, water, lemon juice and olive oil in a double broiler

adding more olive oil...

...parsley and cayenne pepper, s+p to taste.

toss with evoo and lemon juice...

and assemble.

Holy crow, was it delicious! The fish was like butter! I've been a little obsessed with green salads made with anything besides romaine lately. Also, I'm sick, sick of this cold weather. I want to go bare-legged and I want to eat salads, is that too much to ask?!

I'm still trying to nail down my portion of Sunday's menu, but I do have my heart set on lamb. I've never made it before, and it is a traditional Easter-y meat, so I really want to try. I'll probably make one of those salads, too. Oh, and some strawberry black tea from last year (man, I miss my short hair, and my Josh).

Something else exciting happened today... I BOOKED MY TRIP TO GREECE! That's right, I am taking a two week vacation this July to Northern Greece with some of my favorite people... these guys:

I haven't even met them yet, but something tells me we are going to be good friends. Needless to say, July cannot come soon enough. Oh, how am I ever going to write 11+ pages of literacy papers?!

Hope your Good Friday was as good as mine was! What are you doing for Easter? Cooking anything good? Have you ever made lamb?

m

"But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon him, and by his wounds we are healed." Isaiah 53:5