What’s Braciole?

Basically, I’m just killing time here before the weekend hits. What do you really do with those last 20 minutes of the work week, anyway? It will probably go exceptionally slow, since I’m so much looking forward to tonight.

I’ve got a bottle of Chateau de Beaucastel that’s just begging to be opened, and that kind of wine only deserves a good meal, right? So I’ll be cooking up Braciole. Which I’ve never seen nor heard of before, but it sounds like a fun little adventure. Imagine large strips of beef wrapped around a creamy bread crumb stuffing.

And I’ll get to cook again this weekend, since the Venezuela team will be over at my place Monday night. I’ll be digging up my mom’s old recipe for Albondigas Soup, aka Mexican meatball awesomeness.

And I need to bring dessert treats to Bible study on Tuesday. Since I’m already at it in the kitchen, I figure I can’t just settle for chocolate chip cookies. Cherries sounded good (actually, at this point they sound utterly delicious), so iced maraschino chocolate cookies will have to do. (This isn’t from the same recipe, but they look something like this, plus maraschino chocolate icing on top.)

I love weekends.