"samosas"

yesterday carrien and i (mostly carrien, really) made "samosas" - basically a samosa crossed with spanikopita. the filling is red onions, yellow onions, cumin, spinach, garlic, roasted fennel, and red potatoes; the wrapper is phyllo dough. we were attempting to use our spinach and lettuce from boston organics, but succeeded only in using the spinach. still, the "samosas" were fantastic, if a little prone to shattering because the phyllo was fragile after having been thawed, then refrozen. to add to our eclectic mix, we had some fried chicken from the supermarket, gouda and brie with red grapes, and chocolate chip-craisin peanut butter cookies that i found on epicurious. i totally forgot to add the honey in the recipe to the dough, and that explains why it was on the slightly dry side. but the cookies were totally fine - not dry after they'd baked. probably they'd have been a bit better with more liquid of some kind, but the omission of the honey meant that the peanut flavor was underlined more.

this photo attempts to achieve two goals: (1), to show that the samosas are actually triangular and (2), to shamelessly flaunt the fact that we have a vase that goes perfectly with a bouquet of daffodils. this is the first week of school so carrien and i have been cooking more than we usually do - thus our boston organics stash is mostly gone after almost a week and a half.
oh! i got my new all-clad pan in the mail today. i took it out of the box - it's a 12" MC2 fry pan - and it's beautiful. i would like, at some point, to also own a saucepan, because those are also incredibly beautiful. but the fry pan is beyond beautiful. so well-constructed, so stainless-steel, so pristine, so...i could gush all day but i probably shouldn't. i went to work today to work on my model of the c. walsh theatre, but i couldn't find my ruler so instead i went home. on the way, i heard the siren call of bowl and board, and succumbed to the temptation to go in. luckily i escaped without too much of an expenditure - a pretty ridged glass salad bowl, but more exciting, a sharp paring knife. and how much was it, you ask? two dollars. i am always enthused by good knives that only cost two dollars. since it was bowl and board, two dollars means that it cost them some paltry amount of pennies, but i'm happy anyway.