Chicken with mustard cream sauce, Fume' Blanc, red nails

How fabulous is mani/pedi Friday?! Yes, indeed. A friend and I headed to G’town Nails today and had a lovely afternoon. Afterwards, she suggested we stop in a shoe boutique- who left with new heels? Me. However, they were 70% off and are absolutely gorgeous, so c’est la vie. I also opted to go nuts and have my fingernails painted a lovely shade of red. Not maroon, not burgundy, not “hey, pick me up”, just a wonderful, happy shade of red. I’m not sure it’s me. In fact, I feel like if I put on my new blue and white gingham apron with red trim right now, I might as well fix a martini and put my hair in rollers. Nonetheless, if, at this point in my life, crazy means painting my nails red for what will surely challenge the paint’s durability soon (the boys, more cherry pitting, etc), well, I think I’m still in the safe zone.

Naturally, now, at 6:50, the question is: what to eat?! I have some fresh chicken and I don’t want to do anything hard. A quick look around found a winning mustard cream sauce for chicken. Sounds delightful to me! Not sure about a side yet, but I did put a bottle of Grgich Fume’ Blanc in the old fridge.

TGIF!

Sorrel sauce, pistachio-cardamom cake

Trafilatura with sorrel-walnut sauce

Pistach-cardamom cake w/ cherry-card jam

Well, I’ll tell you, this dinner was good. I cobbled together a couple recipes for sorrel sauce I’d seen online and ended up briefly cooking the sorrel in some EVOO with a minced pod of garlic. Sorrel + heat=grayish, slimyish mush quickly, so I added some more sorrel in at the end for texture and color. I also added some fresh lemon juice, a touch of walnut oil, s&p, a knob of mascarpone and some toasted walnuts. Then we shredded Pecorino on top. It was quite nice.

For dessert, I made a pistachio-cardamom cake and put my cherry-cardamom jam on top. Verrry good.