I bet there are people who decide the show lineup who are like, who would ever want to watch THIS? Well, people like me. Did I mention that one night, J and I watched an hour-long show about farmers markets all around the country? It was nice of him to tolerate watching people shopping and talking about food for so long.
This weekend, I think I am going to attempt Scott Peacock's Very Good Chocolate Cake. This requires two 9" round baking pans. So off to the restaurant supply store we went. One can never actually just walk away from the restaurant supply store with one thing, right? Here's what we walked away with:
- Dough scraper: For getting all that pasta dough off my board
- 2 quarter sheet pans: Because these are the best size for things like roasting asparagus. We only have one, but I have often wished we had more.
- 2 9" round cake pans: Well, this is why we went there, remember?
- OXO 9" locking tongs: Because all the paint has come off the ones we have and they have occasional rust on them. J complains about it every time he uses them. And also, they have to lock or they are kind of useless.
- OXO 12" locking tongs: Because we had to replace both tongs.
- Pepper mill: Because it was smooth and nice to use and the one we have totally bites.
- 2 oval wicker baskets: For storing garlic, shallots, and tomatoes. Because the bowls I use now suck.
- 2 rectangular wicker baskets: For storing fruits. Ditto from above.
- 4 14 oz mugs: Good for cold beer or root beer floats.
One thing I also learned is that you cannot put restaurant ranges into your home. This is really sad since I was drooling over the 6 27,000 BTU rings on the 36" range I saw. I guess you have to do a lot of special things. So much for being like Julia Child. For only $1225, too. I was really looking forward to it. I guess I will have to find a suitably powerful yet in my price range range somewhere else. Sigh.
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We went to the New Yorker Deli for lunch. I got the reuben and J got a cold roast beef with horseradish, s+p, and mayo. We traded halves. It's all very good, but this is the second time we have gone to the New Yorker and I've gotten violently sick. Might need to give it some time.
I think I have 18 books from the library right now. It forms an impressive stack on my nightstand, and all of them are about food. I am currently reading Talking with My Mouth Full: Crab Cakes, Bundt Cakes, and Other Kitchen Stories by Bonny Wolf. This is totally the kind of foodie book I love. Each chapter is dedicated to one type of food. She starts off with a story and then goes all into the history of it. Then she gives a recipe. I'm not very far into the book, but I'm really enjoying it. This might go on one of my favorite books about food list.
The other is actually The Food of Love: A Novel by Anthony Capella. It's an Italian foodie love story. For some reason, I just really really enjoy it. I think I renewed it twice after I got it (the maximum number of times you can renew a book continuously) and read it four times before I returned it. I think it's that I like the idea that cooking for someone takes love and also you can taste the love in it when you eat it.
I just finished Death by Pad Thai: And Other Unforgettable Meals which is a collection of stories by different authors. It's supposed to focus on memorable occasions with meals, not specifically memorable food. It starts off well, including a hilarious story on the preparation of a first Thanksgiving that had me reading it out to J and both of us laughing our asses off. (35lb turkey, instant mashed potatoes with no milk or butter, beef gravy because the author didn't know about turkey gravy...)
Before that, I was reading Don't Try This at Home: Culinary Catastrophes from the World's Greatest Chefs which includes stories from awesome chefs such as Ferran Adria, Daniel Boulud, Mario Batali, and Anthony Bourdain. Enjoyable and a fun read.
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