A Week at the Lake

In May of each year, we generally take 10 or 12 days and unwind at our lake house.  And, of course, these past 3 or 4 years, we have gone on a cooking binge - we plan 7 or so meals that we have been dying to cook - hopefully, some new and challenging, and some that are our favorites but so fattening, we don't dare cook them but once or twice a year.  So in May of 2006 after we had moved from a condo into our house at the lake, we did just that, and here was our menu:

• Pineapple Teryaki Salmon & Sauteed Spinach
• Pan Seared Halibut with Shrimp Succotash
• Soup !
• Grilled Trumpeter Seabass with Rosemary Roasted Potatoes and Broccoli
• Sauteed Chicken Breasts w/ Button Mushrooms, Safe & Truffle Oil
• Lean Cuisine - LOL !!!
• Fennel Crusted Ahi Tuna w/ Lemon Aioli over Couscous
• Grilled Halibut with Sundried-tomato Tapenade
• Leftover Tuna & Couscous
• Mother's Day Brunch at the Inn !

I don't have many pictures from that week but the one I do have was one of THE most incredible things I have ever had - and, I've had a lot !!  It comes close to the hot / cold foie gras I had at Jardiniere in San Francisco.  This is the Pan Seared Halibut with Shrump Succotash and you can find it at Coastal Living.  The husband came across it, and was dying to try it - NOW, it is one of his top favorites!  In place of the fava beans in the succotash, we used baby limas, and then it calls for chanterelle or cremini mushrooms, shrimp, and a little corn (we used yellow frozen at that time of year), then drizzled with a beurre blanc sauce.  Can you say OMG, we had a foodgasim !!!!