I commend the faithful blogger. It is a difficult task to commit yourself fully to writing on the same subject, day in and day out especially in the beginning when you don't know how faithful your readers are! I have been roadblocked by my own mind. Filled with the pressures of staying on topic and to follow the exact format I have taken the fun out of blogging, and left huge dents in my writing schedule. I have been cooking everyday, taking pictures of my meals, I haven't been recording as faithfully my use of ingredients and quite often don't measure by teaspoon but more by estimates. So it has been difficult getting all of my experimental meals recorded on here! I waited weeks and thought it would just all come back to me in the pictures, but I trusted my memory more than it deserved to be.
Anyway, let me give you a list of helpful things I have been doing to keep cooking fresh and keeping my life involved with my new journey.
- I read Gabrielle Hamilton's Blood Bones and Butter. Which I found very inspiring. A woman who speaks of food the way that I have come to understand and appreciate it. She took her dream of starting a restaurant with little to no experience, skipped on the middle steps, and just made it happen- but she also was raised in a home with quite a lot of food appreciation that helped her aesthetic.
- I am currently working my way through "How to be a better Foodie" and looking up everything on the internet as I go to see what it is I am reading.
- I am currently listening to the audiobook by Anthony Bourdain "Medium Raw" and I am very pleased with it. He describes in his opening paragraphs his experience with the sacred eating of ortolan bunting. I found this very fascinating especially because they eat the bird whole including bones and beak, its illegal and they hide their heads whilst they enjoy this forbidden delicacy.
-I picked up Culinaria France, Italy and Germany and am studying the origins of food in my free time, why they ate what they did, where it came from, what the premier dishes in each region are which is exceptionally interesting to me when I found the actual villages of my ancestors.
- I have been going to my weekly worship celebration at my super market, picking up new varieties of fruits and cheeses, making my way through the spices, and most excitingly writing up shopping lists based on recipes I find online and trying to change them based on my specific taste.
- I have tried a few new foods. I have attempted a few new methods of cooking, and I have been experiencing extreme lust for everything that is kitchen appliance/utensil.
- I have been graciously lent the mother of all invention- the Kitchenaid Mixer. And made my own ice cream, water ice, pies, pretzels, pop tarts.. etc. from its many attachments!
So I didn't die people. I have just been anxiously awaiting the right thing to write and I just thought I would give you an update. :)
Now, I must get back to my reading.
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