I like cooking, even though I admit that the only things I make really well are cookies. :) Cookies are the first things I learned how to cook (ramen noodles don't really count) and for years, I made three different kinds of cookies every Christmas for my mother. They didn't have to be the same three types each year, just so long as I made three different ones. She especially liked the almond cookies with a little red food coloring dotted onto their flat little tops.
In more recent years, I stopped baking and cooking because of work and school. Watching Food Network while eating Chinese and Thai take out was pretty much my culinary thing. Since moving to San Diego, however, I have some spare time, which I took out on the Kitchen Aid last month and I made cookies. Dozens of them, about 5 different types (only the chocolate biscotti are left). Plus a light little cheeeeeesecake from a Bon Appetit recipe clipped about 20 years ago that remains one of my favorites because the end result is tasty and light, without meaning to be a "lite" cheesecake.
I am learning some Italian things by watching Everyday Italian now. When I first saw the show, I didn't like it, but in the past couple of months it's grown on me. After seeing one of the first episodes, I realized the reason I didn't like it at first was the hostess seemed aloof, and I took her authentic pronounciations of "mozzarella" and "spaghetti" as condescending to those of us brought up on Chef Boyardee :) Then I realized, she was shy. You can see her making the effort to smile at the camera while talking and mixing at the same time. Now she smiles all the time but her first few shows she looked uncomfortable. Maybe she just didn't feel well or something.
Anyway, I Tivo the show and have made some of the recipes. I like that she isn't above using pre-mixed breadcrumbs to save time, she adores chocolate and nutella (like me!) and bought a pair of $500 shoes in Rome when shopping with her mom. :) So if you haven't seen Everyday Italian, or like me were put off by the first episodes, please give it another go. Right now I'm typing this post and eating something I'd never have thought of as food before this program: ricotta cheese drizzled with honey and sprinkled with crushed amaretti. It's really good :) Who knew?
In more recent years, I stopped baking and cooking because of work and school. Watching Food Network while eating Chinese and Thai take out was pretty much my culinary thing. Since moving to San Diego, however, I have some spare time, which I took out on the Kitchen Aid last month and I made cookies. Dozens of them, about 5 different types (only the chocolate biscotti are left). Plus a light little cheeeeeesecake from a Bon Appetit recipe clipped about 20 years ago that remains one of my favorites because the end result is tasty and light, without meaning to be a "lite" cheesecake.
I am learning some Italian things by watching Everyday Italian now. When I first saw the show, I didn't like it, but in the past couple of months it's grown on me. After seeing one of the first episodes, I realized the reason I didn't like it at first was the hostess seemed aloof, and I took her authentic pronounciations of "mozzarella" and "spaghetti" as condescending to those of us brought up on Chef Boyardee :) Then I realized, she was shy. You can see her making the effort to smile at the camera while talking and mixing at the same time. Now she smiles all the time but her first few shows she looked uncomfortable. Maybe she just didn't feel well or something.
Anyway, I Tivo the show and have made some of the recipes. I like that she isn't above using pre-mixed breadcrumbs to save time, she adores chocolate and nutella (like me!) and bought a pair of $500 shoes in Rome when shopping with her mom. :) So if you haven't seen Everyday Italian, or like me were put off by the first episodes, please give it another go. Right now I'm typing this post and eating something I'd never have thought of as food before this program: ricotta cheese drizzled with honey and sprinkled with crushed amaretti. It's really good :) Who knew?
posted by Owl Chick at 1/20/2005 07:26:00 PM
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