Ikea at Home

I can tell that Jen has been sad every since our ill-fated attempt to eat dinner at Ikea last week. She has lost her taste for the Swedish meatballs but still retains a healthy urge for their broccoli cheddar cakes.



Since I had to make another trip to Ikea today (hopefully the last for a while) I decided to bring Ikea dinner to Jen. I made these little cakes with broccoli, fontina, potato, egg, cream, salt, and pepper. I baked them in the oven in muffin tins and served them with a light salad. They were pretty tasty. I asked how they stacked up to the Ikea versions and Jen said these were even better.

I know she's lying but it was still pretty nice.



I have not really been looking forward to this Tweason'Ale gluten free beer from Dogfish Head, but I figured tonight would be a good time to enjoy it seeing as how dinner was gluten free.

The beer tasted a little like a white wine spritzer, and kind of like ginger ale. I think I've had better gluten free offerings. Since it was Dogfish Head they chose to flavor it with strawberries and ferment it with honey. I think I'd prefer my gluten free beers to be a little more beery.

I guess I'm just glad I don't have to be gluten free.



Tonight we're watching game four of the Stanley Cup Finals where I hope to watch the L.A. Kings complete a sweep of the New Jersey Devils. To celebrate I continued the salty-and-sweet trend started last night and made these chocolate covered potato chip clusters. They were pretty tasty but I don't really thing we needed anything for dessert.

Watching the Devils lose will be sweet enough.