What happens when a bunch of foodies go up to a cabin in the mountains for a winter weekend getaway? A lot of cooking and eating… oh, and some snow play too.

Day 1

Coconut pancakes for breakfast.

Some off-trail riding to work up an appetite.

Chicken under a brick, chickpeas romesco, and garlic rice for dinner.

When you don’t have a brick for your “chicken under a brick”, you improvise!

Day 2

Have you ever had a picnic in the snow? I highly recommend it!

Spicy peanut noodles (check out my Guessipe) and Korean slaw (check out my Guessipe) – no soggy sandwiches and packaged foods for this crew.

How can you beat spreading a blanket atop a snowy mountain and having a feast with friends!?

We might not have had a brick for our chicken, but we had every other cooking implement a foodie could desire. Our homemade bread dough went into the Banneton basket for proofing.

The Banneton basket gave the bread this pretty pattern and perfect shape, which we cut an X into the top of.

While the bread baked, we got the sous vide going to make some salmon. Yes, we had a sous vide machine at a cabin in the mountains.

Once the salmon was perfectly cooked, we pulled it out of the water bath and popped it into the cast iron skillet for a quick sear.

Dinner and wine is served! Look how pretty the bread turned out.

If you’ve got a sous vide machine and all the right ingredients, you might as well make coffee-flavored creme brûlée for dessert.

Of course we had a cooking torch. All mountain cabins don’t have that?

When you don’t have ramekins, make big mugs of creme brûlée (it is coffee-flavored after all), and eat the leftovers for breakfast!

Day 3

On our last morning before heading home, we had to “scrape together” leftovers to make a meal. We still had some sourdough starter left, which Colin said we could make into English muffins.

Did you know that English muffins are made by cooking them stovetop in a skillet? I had no idea!

Can you believe how perfect they came out? Check out all the nooks and crannies! I’m not gonna lie – I was super proud to go home and tell everyone we made homemade English muffins.

What would we put on these stunningly perfect English muffins? Might as well make use of the sous vide and make eggs.

We tried a variety of toppings for our English muffins. Leftover salmon and a sous vide egg, butter and jam, plain butter. Not bad for a meal scraped together from leftovers!

One more romp in the snow before heading home from a perfect snow and food filled weekend.