It's a perfect fall Sunday morning. The sky is a gorgeous bright blue and the air is crisp and cool. I'm wearing my favorite flannel pajama pants with a huge mug of coffee sitting on the couch watching back to back episodes of Top Chef: Just Desserts while using my picture-in-picture feature to keep tabs on what Bobby Flay is making on Brunch at Bobby's. In my head I'm making mental lists of everything I want to try including these FABULOUS little chocolate cups made from dipping small inflated balloons into perfectly tempered chocolate and then popping the balloons. In my head I could fill them with zabaglione and fresh berries or crushed cookie crumbs and chocolate custard or peanut butter mousse with caramelized bananas....
I'm also thinking of how perfect it would be to roast a chicken today or make an apple pie and fill the house with that gorgeous warm smell perfect for this time of year. My brain is in overdrive and I'm getting so excited I'm ready to run out and hit the market in my PJ's....
And then my little heart sinks as I realize I can't actually do any of this today. Tomorrow morning at 6am I'm going to be heading off to a somewhat less delicious conference in Washington, DC and I'll be there until Thursday. So no playing with chocolate, no apple pie baking in the oven, no chicken roasting and filling the house with that warm wonderful smell. Just me, some brisket leftovers from the other night and lots of packing and sorting through conference papers.
Seriously....torture. But just wait until next weekend! It's going to be an all out cooking/baking extravaganza here at Chez Nigro! Unless of course Mother Nature throws me a curve ball and brings the temperatures back up again. Stay tuned and see what happens.
And in the meantime - let me live vicariously through you! Leave a comment and let me know if you're going to be celebrating fall with your own culinary creations today!
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