2nd Wedding Anniversary Tiramisu

Eric and I celebrated our second wedding anniversary yesterday. We ate lunch at Odd Duck. The meal was incredibly delicious and I left hardly able to walk after all the food and drinks we had. Poor Eric had to go back to work and I came home and took a nap!

We decided our anniversary traditions should include drinking limoncello and making tiramisu. We opened a bottle of limoncello that we brought back from the bed & breakfast we stayed at during our honeymoon in Italy. The bed & breakfast was set in the mountain above Positano and had a farm on the land. The family made limoncello out of the huge, sweet lemons that grew on their property.

Papa making the limoncello on the patio of the b&b in Montepertuso, Italy.

The tiramisu turned out amazing. I used the recipe from Del Posto. No store bought lady fingers - the sponge cake is made from scratch! I accidentally poured too much of the espresso on the first layer of sponge cake and had to make more. I probably used one & half times the amount of espresso the recipe called for and we loved it. (Note in the recipe it says "Don’t be stingy with the espresso, okay?". No stinginess here!).

More posts this week! I have lots to share from the month of May.

Some old posts that have pictures from our wedding: here, here, & here.

Happy Friday!

Happy Friday, y'all! We've got our friend Michele visiting from Italy, so we've been doing our part in showing him the best Tex-mex and Mexican food in Austin this week. (I don't think I've ever eaten so many chips & salsa in a week before!)

 Cheers to being Friday, and my final grades almost all put in!! WOOT

Limoncello

I finished making the batches of limoncello! I followed Giada De Laurentiis' recipe for ratios and The Cooking Channel's recipe for how long to steep (I did 1 month). I used Everclear as the alcohol after reading the tip that the higher the alcohol content, the more the lemon flavor is extracted. (Italians use grain alcohol, so it definitely makes sense.) I purchased the Everclear on Martin Luther King holiday, before noon, and the cashier said, "Ohhh, having a party?". Ew, no. I must have looked like a sorority girl heading home to mix it with fruit punch. In a giant cooler. Total frat move. Sick.

Eric and I will always have a soft spot for limoncello after our honeymoon last summer. We spent two and half weeks in Italy, with part on the Amalfi Coast. The Amalfi Coast is known for its ginormous sweet lemons and their limoncello. We drank our fair share when we were there and brought home a bottle of homemade from the bed & breakfast we stayed at.

Me in Positano, Italy. June 2013.

"Papa" making limoncello at our bed & breakfast in Montepertuso.