five thousand shades of blue
Friday, February 15, 2002
I've never done the
Friday Five before, but I saw via
mollie that it's about cooking this week, and what the hey.
1. What was the first thing you ever cooked? If you don't count the occasional Cup of Soup or boil-in-bag beef and gravy, it would probably be either pasta and sauce (the poor college student's staple) or a grilled cheese sandwich.
2. What's your signature dish? Well, I invented a cold Chinese noodle salad last summer that went over really well. And I hear I make a pretty mean pad thai.
3. Ever had a cooking disaster? (tasted like crap, didn't work, etc.) Describe. The one that immediately comes to mind when you say 'cooking disaster' is the time I took a pan of lasagna out of the freezer (because the recipe makes so much, I make up lots of small pans and freeze what I don't immedately bake) and popped it into the oven. Unfortunately, I neglected to remove the plastic lid; thanks to the modern miracle of microwave cooking I hadn't even given it a second thought. So we ended up with lasagna a la plastic lid. Fortunately, it only really took out the topmost layer; after peeling that off we still enjoyed the lasagna.
4. If skill and money were no object, what would make for your dream meal? Oooh. Tough call. I'm quite enjoying the new tradition of Moroccan feast for Yule dinner, and delight in the total sensory experience of pulling apart the basteeyah (which we do make with boneless chicken) and licking the lemony spicy tahjeen sauce off of your fingers, because it's not properly done if you don't use your fingers. There's way too many varieties of food that I love too much to just make
one meal though.
5. What are you doing this weekend? Reading children's book stories that my cousin Jen wrote, and sent me, because she wants someone to illustrate them and you know what? That's what I really want to do when I grow up. :)
is
this just not enough…?
