And part of this blog is going to be to prove to myself and everyone else that everyone can cook. Because advertisers are constantly trying to tell us we are too stupid or too busy to cook. This has been covered in a lot of places lately. Michael Pollan spoke about it on Fresh Air, and I ran across this in google reader today America: Too Stupid to Cook.
Some things I'm intimidated by, but wouldn't be if I had more experience doing them. So it's time to just do it.
Here's just a few things to do in 2010:
Dolmas/stuffed grape leaves
Pasta/noodles from scratch
Chicken pot pie or other savory pies
Smoke meat in my new hand-me-down smoker
Cook lamb
Multiple kinds of dumplings
Cook with sorrel
Mayonnaise from scratch
Try some other sourdough starters (I had some successes with this and a failure)
More polenta dishes
Cook new kinds of grains
Can tomatoes & other garden bounty
Make pickled cucumbers & okra
Beef stock from scratch
Yorkshire pudding
Master cooking various kinds of rice, try new kinds, too.
Fermented foods like sauerkraut & kimchee
Brew own beer! (But after the baby is born, so I can actually drink it).
And the other first in 2010, baby food. Although off the top of my head I'm not sure what month I'll be ready to start making that.
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I commend you for wanting to cook from scratch more. It's the way to go! I am especially disturbed by the recent trend of frozen vegetable companies that are selling their "STEAM IN A BAG" collections of veggies as if they're something remarkable. As if chopping vegetables and cooking them in any number of ways is too difficult. GET A MF'N KNIFE AND A MF'N CUTTING BOARD AND GET TO WORK, SHITWADS! Oops, I made a swear. :)
ReplyDeleteI think those veg-blend or veggie medley things usually taste like cardboard, too. Did you get that as cafeteria food in school?
ReplyDeleteIn the grocery store the other day I noticed they are selling diced vegetables in the produce aisle.
Here is a case of desperately needing anti-progress.