I wasn’t kidding about the not cooking/updating part, as is obvious from the absolute silence permeating this space. That said, I have at least two projects for a gathering this weekend that should result in some worthwhile activity. Maybe. One of them involves a pie and this whole high altitude baking thing has totally not worked out for me thus far, but we’re going to try it!
Monthly Archive for April, 2009
As the due date for my second child approaches, my desire to be on my feet for any extended period of time (read: ten minutes) has made cooking less of an adventure and more of a chore. Coupled with the horrendous heartburn, well, it’s just not conducive to…anything.
Also, what food I am cooking has taken horrible pictures. Last week I whipped up some of my hero Mario Batali’s minestrone siciliana and it was incredible, but it looks awful in the photo. Tonight was more soup, a dupe recipe of Panera’s broccoli cheese, and again, delicious but in this case I completely forgot to take photographs. Win some, lose a lot more seems to be my motto lately.
I hope to get back into the spirit of things soon – after all, baby or no baby, I still have some challenges to whip up!
I love pasta. It’s easy to cook and you have to work really hard (or use guanciale) to make it taste bad. This particular one is new to me, contains at least two ingredients I used to refuse to touch and I want to shove it in my mouth all the time.
I’ve mentioned the knife skills class pretty frequently, and I feel like I learned a lot from it though since my retention is so awful I should really take it again, and I celebrated the purchase of a new chef’s knife with recreating the pasta that Chef Bob served to us with the fruits of our labor…with one small problem. He wouldn’t give me a recipe.
Now, he had no problem telling me everything that went in it, but as I know some of you are aware I function best with a specific set of instructions, ESPECIALLY with a new recipe. Not having portions or measurements of any kind broke my brain a little bit but I am totally pleased with the outcome, it tasted exactly like I wanted it to, and now I’m going to share it with you.
