Monthly Archives: June 2008

what's on your grocery list?

I saw a funny book today at Barnes and Noble. I kid you not, it was called Found Grocery Lists. And it was scanned grocery lists, in their crumpled glory, with scrawls of notes from disparate homes. Some had large punctuation, some the 4 year old was told to… [more]

I have one goal for my vacation:

I have one goal for my vacation:
To sit by the pool? To read a good book? To get a tan? To enjoy good wine? These are all very legitimate goals and vacation-worthy agendas; my objective is nowhere near these luxurious means to a relaxing end. My goal is to deep-fry food. My single goal for… [more]

kitchen skills: sharpening knives gives me the chills.

kitchen skills: sharpening knives gives me the chills.
How ironic, how absolutely hilarious yet awkward: my little peeve of knife sharpening. Here I am, front and center, a new culinary student and one of my personal fingernails-on-the-chalkboard [sends chills down my spine] is the noise of knives sharpening. Ask my parents, they will tell you. As a… [more]

Kitchen Confidential

One of my goals for this summer is to fit in a pile of culinary reading. I just finished the book, The Sharper your Knife, the Less you Cry. Fun rendition of a gal taking a hard right from her life and pursuing her culinary dreams. Huh, and she is… [more]

rustic pie crust

rustic pie crust
So my lab class this quarter is Introduction to Baking; the hardcore cooking classes kick in come fall. Which means summer, whilst not learning about safety and sanitation in the kitchen, I will be practicing my culinary skills—especially knife cuts and sauces—and generally trying to beat/whisk/slice/pound some cooking info… [more]