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[callistra]

Well, the oil/fat/whatever is still heating up. I'd like to ramble gently abotu how much Alton Brown has been useful to us to extend our culinary horizons, not so much in food itself, but more trying things out that were out of our comfort zone. For example, I shallow fried the other day! Woo! It may not seem like much, but it is an important step form e - I have been wanting to do things like that ever since we got the new kitchen, but I sure wasn't moving much when I was pregnant. But I am learning and extending my skills. I have now also done crepes, caramel (successfully in the end) shallow frying, deep frying, cream sauces... I should go and check out that previous list I did of things I wanted to do.

Ooo, and I should ask every one - what is their favourite gourmet shop?

I find it amusing now that I can look at anything in my fridge, and instantly come up with two or three dishes that would feature that ingredient with what I already have. I can cook a kick ass carbonara (a proper one, using egg and not cream), I can hand make my own gnocci (the last one I did was pumpkin and potato rather than just pumpkin) and we had steak with blue cheese and loobiaj (beans in a tomato onion sauce) for dinner the other night. John comes home to dinner, and if things are going well we have a glass of wine and a small serving of munchies at the table, and dinner on a nice set of crockery. I am starting to take far more care with presentation as well as putting more thought into the plates, glasses, etc. I now want to get some really nice plates, and some really nice wine glasses.

I had some more thoughts, but I was distracted by the oil being ready. Now, I have to run off and eat, cos I cooked everything up between this paragraph and the last one!!

Yum!

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[numbat.livejournal.com]

I fear that now I've moved onto the new job my cookign skills will curther atrophy. After all, why cook if you have chefs to do it for you?

[angrboda]

Utterly unrelated to your post. Consider this a service announcement.

Remember you commented to my post about a plotbunny I wasn't certain I could write?

Well, I wrote it and you're still interested in reading it, you can find it at lucissa or mtdk_fic

:)

I now return you to your regularly scheduled LJ.

MTDK

[callistra.livejournal.com]

oooo! Tee hee heee!

Ta!