in the kitchen
for those who are unaware, i am hopelessly addicted to food/recipe/craft blogs. my enslavement doesn’t really limit itself to blogs, i guess, but expands into the realm of any food/recipe/craft site that has commenting functionality. see, i want to know how to make things, but i want someone else to try it first, and tell me if it sucks, or how i can do it better.
lately, almost everything i cook or bake comes from blogs (not martha and smitten kitchen are the main culprits, closely followed by chow and epicurious) home made oreos, no knead bread, cinnamon bundt cake, and chicken salad have been some of the delicious results. with every new blog post, my to do list and my grocery list get longer and longer. i have roughly 12 recipes in queue right now.
but i have to draw the line somewhere. and today, the line has been drawn, with home made bagels via smitten kitchen. 12 steps, each about a paragraph long, five after-notes and 1,199 words. she started friday and finished the bagels saturday. yes, they sound delicious. but i cannot possibly make them and risk spending all that time, looking high and low for the perfect ingredients to end up possibly messing them up and wasting all that time and effort. i just can’t bring myself to do it. did i mention there were 12 steps??
i went out on a limb the other day, and started cooking some stuff out of magazines, you know, the good old fashioned way, with no print button and no user reviews. so far i’ve gotten 2 batches of the best roasted veggies i’ve ever had, and the most disgusting thing to ever come out of my kitchen. this stuff is sitting in my stomach right now, and i’m feeling a little nauseous thinking about it, but i did learn something: stay away from rice noodles. unless i seriously jacked things up, i don’t ever want to see rice noodles again, as long as i live. think clear gummy worms with no flavor. i guess there are a lot of varieties of rice noodles, so maybe some of the others are good, but i seriously could not stomach what i made for dinner tonight. (rice sticks..part way down the page)
and now i am off to make replacement dinner. but the only things that sound good are peanut butter fudge or pumpkin pie. hmmm…
That is exactly why I hate Royal Thai. I got those clear gummy noodles one time and it was the worst thing I have ever eaten. Sick.
Comment by Kelly — September 28, 2007 @ 8:46 am
the rice there is good though…you should give it a second chance.
Comment by crystal — September 28, 2007 @ 9:27 am
Nauseous, or nauseated? If it’s the former, you are indicating that you find yourself able to make other people feel sick; in which case I shall stay clear. If the latter, then you yourself are ill; in which case I shall have to fix dinner for you and Brian very soon!
Comment by Carter Harkins — October 1, 2007 @ 1:06 am
ooo…i was not aware of this common grammatical error.
A distinction has traditionally been drawn between nauseated, meaning ‘affected with nausea,’ and nauseous, meaning ‘causing nausea.’ Today, however, the use of nauseous to mean ‘affected with nausea’ is so common that it is generally considered to be standard.
as i’m more of a traditional grammar kind of girl, i’ve made a note of this.
also, as a follow up, it has been brought to my attention that what i purchased were not in fact true rice noodles, but were bean threads, made from mungbeans…or something like that. i will indeed be giving rice noodles a second chance.
Comment by crystal — October 2, 2007 @ 10:39 pm