Kitty's Scratch Pad

Making Bouchon

We bought this cookbook after seeing the movie with Fen. So far he has cooked two recipes including the linguine which was quite yummy. For those who don't know, Thomas Keller was the adviser behind this brilliantly fun and gastronomically accurate film.  I was pleased to the knees that a recipe of my most coveted treat Chef Keller named his small bakery after - Bouchon - was included.  They are simple to make.  The only note I would add is that unless you have the specific tin to replicate the same shape and size, yours won't look quite as eye-catching as his.  That doesn't mean they don't taste as good.

Grand Canyon June 2007

Grand Canyon June 2007 006,
originally uploaded by kittysaysmeow.

Our first trip of the summer. We arrived in Kingman, AZ around 5:00 and tried to get some rest before our 1:15 a.m. wake up time. We tried to quickly organize and get on the road. It was 2 more hours until we would reach the Hilltop of Havasupai. Everyone else took off ahead of us to secure a campsite and we finally got our start at 5 a.m. It is 8 miles into Supai, the small Tribal Village that maintains all of the tourism for the area, and we arrived by 9 a.m.. We stopped for a breakfast burrito and then made our final push the 2.2 miles to camp. At around 11 we finally found the rest of our party and we all relaxed for the rest of the day in 100+ degree weather. Luckily, the river that runs right through our camp was very cool. The next day, Alex took off with others to hike to the Colorado River while we stayed back and relaxed at the campsite. We took one short hike down to Mooney Falls and it was amazing. It was also at least 20 degrees colder from the spray of the waterfall. The next day we decided to bail and took a helicopter out instead of hiking. Sort of the lazy route but what the heck. It was a six minute ride instead of a 5+ hour hike. I am sure Fen could have made it but it was fun to do. We spent the next two nights in Vegas and finally made our way home.