My Cooking Game
January 21st 2010 11:28
My bookshelf groaning with cookbooks
I gotta say, I so get Julie Powell. I get that she thought up the project. I get that she took a year to finish it. I get her love/hate relationship with cooking.
I could be totally wrong if I ever meet the woman, but the book was an enjoyable culinary experience where I was often laughing in shared sympathy or yelling out "Yes, I SO get that."
While I never had a project per say, I did have my own cooking game which was much easier to do when I was single and even married. Once kids came along, however, it was very hard to continue my cooking game due to its nature.
Let me explain.
In my bookcase I have one whole shelf dedicated to cook books. When looking for a dish to cook, it was often difficult to decide on a cookbook let alone a recipe. So I started my game.
It involved two numbers. The first number was the recipe book and the second was the page number.
If the number didn't coincide with a singular recipe I just kept picking numbers until it did. The numbers could be the next one I heard on TV, or asking my hubbie to pick them out of the air.
It made the game very random and exciting because whatever recipe the numbers landed on I had to cook, regardless.
Some recipes had me buying ingredients I wouldn't have looked twice at, or going to small chinese supermarkets to get certain items.
I made ponzu sauce, manhattan oysters, clafouti, main meals, entrees, desserts and nibbles. I had same amazing successes where I wrote the recipe down so that I wouldn't lose it on the shelf, as well as some amazing disasters that made me wonder how my husband agreed to always be my guinea pig.
When the kids came along, however, I abandoned my game as I wasn't going to be making multiple dishes for dinner, as I wouldn't expect children to be eating some of the dishes from the game.
Our meals are so much more pedestrian these days, but every now and then I breakout and find myself looking for two numbers.
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Comment by Helen Randell
Rough Cooking
Helen
Comment by Samantha Elley
Food Journo
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Good luck let me know what you end up cooking...beware, you could be going on a very interesting culinary journey...LOL
Sam