People still looking to remodel their bungalow kitchens are stumbling on to me here at Salon blogs. If it's any consolation to you folks, I'd like to remodel my own kitchen, to make it circa 1920, when the house was built, because in truth, sometimes that's the era I feel I belong to.
I spend my days tending the hearth, caring for the child, tidying the home. But I guess there's a difference. I made this choice and I've almost always felt lucky, privileged not to have to work outside the home--even though this domestic life is not what I was brought up to expect. (This does not count the days that I feel like pulling out my hair, which anyone parenting a toddler / pre-schooler full-time can relate to).
I'm sure my father sent me to college in the hope that I'd be a professional--and I would have become a Spanish professor, if the graduate program at the University of Colorado--Boulder, hadn't seemed so mind-numbingly ridiculous. (One of my professors tried to drag Jacques Derrida into a discussion of why Sancho Panza farted so much. Something like that. I've tried to erase it from the slate.)
I don't know how working women feed their families. When someone complained to Elizabeth David that her books would be useless to working women because her recipes required far too much time, she simply snipped, "That's their problem." True enough, I suppose, but not very gracious. I guess she wasn't sympathetic to women trying to earn the money to put food on the table, nevermind how it was prepared. (Though I myself am not sympathetic to mothers trying to earn the money just to put pretty clothes on their backs.)
I'm fairly sure that many of the recipes I'm working with would be useless to a working woman, although last night, I did have great success with the Thai Style Pork Tenderloin Stir Fry. Success in less than half an hour, I might add (not counting the time it took to shop for the ingredients, which, as always is considerable, since I enter some sort of subconscious state in the grocery store, find it immensely relaxing, and thus spend way too much time there.)
Thai Style Pork Tenderloin Stir Fry with Jasmine Rice has been added to the repertoire. I will happily share the recipe with anyone, working or not, who desires something fast, colorful, and flavorful--and I would think, at least moderately nutritious.
But I'm not going to post the recipe, because, well, then I wouldn't expect anyone to trust it, just floating around in cyberspace as it were.
7:42:44 PM 
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