My flight is booked.
For better or for worse, change is a coming (again). I will be leaving beautiful Milan, without my husband, in just under a month. The little man and I will head back to California, via a short trip to visit family in Canada, and Scott will join us in June– hopefully in time to be present for the birth of our little girl!
After much consideration and the high possibility that Scott will be doing his MBA internship this summer in the States, we thought it best to plan to deliver there.
Oh change, you are an ever-present constant in my life.
But then, what would life be without it? I’ve come to embrace it and have learned that no matter what, one always learns and grows and becomes a more rounded, open-minded person when things don’t stay the same.
One thing that didn’t have to change? This weeks recipe for the Food Matters Project. I think I just needed to KNOW that something was going to turn out this week, so I followed the recipe exactly. I take that back, I omitted the bacon because I don’t eat red meat, but we’ll count that as an omission more so than a change!
Vegetable Coq au Vin.
Delicious. Loaded with vegetables. Layers of flavour. It made the house smell marvelous. I served it over cooked farro and it made a perfect, hearty, one-dish meal. Followed by Coconut Cake-in-a-Jar with Creamy Salted Caramel, it was a good night indeed.
To get the recipe for Vegetable Coq au Vin, visit Evi + Sam at Fifth Floor Kitchen. To see all the wonderful changes that were made to the recipe, click here and browse through the comments.
I couldn’t see any reason to change up this recipe either and had the same delicious results. I wish I could say I served something as wonderful-sounding as Coconut Cake in a Jar for dessert though. Best of luck with all of the changes coming up!
Thank-you! Try the dessert… it will not disappoint!!
Your pictures are beautiful. I thought it was a great recipe as well.
Thank-you! For some reason I had a hard time making this recipe look inviting… tasted great, but wasn’t the prettiest dish on the block
Oh my… so many wonderful life changes! Good luck with everything!
Getting to live in Italy is such a great life experience and I wish I get the chance to do that in this lifetime.
Thank-you so much! Hope you get to live here too one day… such a wonderful experience it has been!
That looks wonderful! Good luck with all the change – not like having a baby is enough change or anything
Spaz – meant to write “…not like having a baby isn’t enough change…”
That’s a great idea to put it over a farro! We just did it plain with some bread, but for the future this would be good idea!
Great recipe pick! The farro soaked up all that extra sauce, worked very well!
Onto the next! Wish you the best in your next adventure. And that cake looks insane!
Thank-you! I wish I had leftovers of the cake too…
This is my favorite recipe so far. However, I am so curious about your dessert…yum.
If you love coconut, try the dessert! Pretty easy and oh so worth it!
Change is often bittersweet, but I know you’ll make the most of what’s ahead. I hope you’ll continue to share your recipes (& a bit of your life!) with us.
Will surely continue… just found out we’ll be in the Bay area for the summer– lot’s going on there to write about
Thanks Laura!
I dont know what to comment onfirst…Vanilla & Lemon my 2 favourite things in cooking (plus chocolate), Living in Milan- I hope it is Italy and you get to enjoy the beautiful country and food and being pregnant. I have a 5 months old daughter myself and cannot wait to read more about your adventures! Take care and enjoy your stay in Canada. Calgary had snow overnight buhhh.
Yes! Milan, Italy and we are soaking up as much enjoyment as possible before it’s time to move back home! Congrats on your daughter, your first? You live in Calgary? My parents live right near Red Deer… so I’ve been hearing about the crazy weather!! Thanks for commenting
Yes she is my first and right now yelling at her toys
Yes I live in Calgary and in desperate need of some warm days to go outside. Haha Red Deer is close. Funny how the internet connects 