An Inspired Cooking Feast!

Seester and I spent a few days back at the Oaks Spa in Ojai to celebrate our respective Spring Break weeks.  We were reengergized and remotivated to get back in to our cooking habits -- particularly inspired by two new Williams Sonoma cookbooks we picked up on the drive home.  Although we both appreciate the "clean" Ojai meals -- especially when someone else does the cooking -- we've decided that if we're going to go through the effort, we need the meals to more than just healthy!  Since Seester is hanging out for the rest of the week, we're going to see how many different things we can cook this week before she leaves.  We started last night with a feast: a main course of tri-tip beef with roasted shallots, potatoes, and brussels sprouts; and a lightened strawberry shortcake for dessert.  This morning, Ronen played hookie (hookey?) from school and helped us to make a broccoli and Gruyere frittata for breakfast.  Tonight, we're looking for something to use up the remaining fresh chives and shallots!  Recipies and photos to follow...