Baked Brie

What you need:

Wheel of brie

Puff pastry (slightly thawed)

Raspberry jam

Gluttonous hungry friends.

Delicious. Simple. Filling.

Hunter Mountain, NY

15 people

1 house

13 taxidermied animals

And enough food and booze to last the winter.

This past weekend I trekked up to Hunter Mountain with some of my coworkers to try and experience a taste of winter.

While they skied, I cooked.

Most of the items on the menu were previous blog postings, so this was more of an experience. Cooking for 15 super active people is entirely different than preparing for a few in my apartment.

We ate in the kitchen.

We ate at the bar.

We ate at on the counter space.

All and all, we ate, we drank, and we were merry!

Sometimes you just need a little crunch.

Try Trader Joes for their always fresh veggies and spinach dip!

And try stopping by my office for some of PS260's daily snacks!

I'm kind of embarrassed about how these baked mozzarella sticks turned out.

They tasted delicious (we ate them all) but as you can see they left quite a bit to the imagination.

I froze the cheese sticks for about 36 hours, then did all the prep work, put them back in the fridge and then into the oven they went.

In the future, I will batter them and return them to the FREEZER for a few hours before baking them in the oven. Maybe that will help...

Note: To see how good these COULD look, check out the link above.