Friday, August 26, 2005

I'll get to it, I swear How did ten days go by? I'll get to those recipes eventually (see my last post); I've been busy testing recipes for this instead of posting my own, which is a shame, because so far, mine are better. To the point that the H, during our dinner on Weds. night actually said "Shame on you for making your husband and child eat this [rude comment deleted] food." By which, he explained, he meant that my normal cooking is so much better. He was right, sadly; one of the recipes they had me test was just a waste of time (a red wine marinade for grilled steaks; makes no difference at all to the taste or texture of the meat) and the other, Tomatoes au Gratin, was just ill conceived--too much butter, too much sugar, etc. Hopefully they'll rework it before they go to press. I embarked on the whole exercise so that I could write about it, a la Julie/Julia, and now I haven't made the time...so I'll get to it, I swear. Maybe tomorrow? By the way, if you've never read Julie/Julia, do yourself a favor, and do so immediately. Once I started (late, late, late in the game, after Julie's well-deserved accollades had begun) I had to read the entire damn blog, start to tragic (for her readers) finish. Like I said, do yourself a favor. And keep a snack handy. 10:43:34 PM     comment [] trackback []