Beginnings can be exciting, scary, and even daunting at times (depending on the situation!) Yet, we all go through beginnings of some sort by choice or by circumstance. And now we find ourselves at the beginning of 2011 with so many possibilities. As with each year, I made a list that I believe outdoes Santa's. Now my choice is to either tackle each one or break each single one and carry it on to next year's list. I choose to tackle them...not all of them, but most of them.
The ones that are fun anyway. So here goes.
Resolution #1 is to write in a journal/blog. Thus, here's my entry. Yes, it's late, but I've been somewhat good in writing and saving my thoughts in Microsoft Word. It's a start if anything. Yet, I think blogs are much more flashier and audacious than the white screen of Word staring at me.
The first week of the year greeted us with joy and a floral surprise. I received the much anticipated cookbooks that my husband bought for me. He tried looking for them all over the place but we finally had to order them online. So now I'm the proud owner of Martha Stewart's Cooking School, Trisha Yearwood's second cooking book (I can't see the title from here), and One Big Table by Molly O'Neill. To avoid me going crazy and driving the entire household and immediate family bananas, I am tackling one cookbook at a time.
First one up: Martha Stewart. I successfully made the white stock and Tortilla Soup. And my husband loved it...despite the fact that he secretly dislikes M.S. but I think that will change as I delve deeper into the book. Making the stock was easy enough, but the aroma wafting into every room of the house was intoxicating. I felt like I was at my Mom's or my grandma's house. It was the scent of comfort food with a side dish of nostalgia of watching Mom and grandma at the kitchen table talking and laughing while we were kids and didn't realize that these memories would be oh-so-precious to us one day.
As for M.S., I think she is a sheer genius. She is onto something when she says that stock is the basis for good cooking. And being a meat and potatoes kind of gal who know loves and appreciates soup and stock...well, that's M.S. magic.
