the first picture is a seafood white-cream sauce pasta. the second picture is bruschetta. they look better in person. they also taste better in person.i've been watching a lot of the food network this summer. i mean, A LOT. i'm down with the neelys, ready to throwdown bobby flay, cook everyday with giada and go barefoot with contessa (i mean, ina garten, whatever). it's getting to the point where i watch to learn new recipes as well as just to watch.
sometimes it's like subjecting myself to torture. here is delicious food but haha, you can't eat it! that's what inspired me this summer to cook and bake more. not only do i have the time, but i have so many random ingredients in my kitchen that i want/need to get rid of and i have the freedom and flexibility to cook whatever suits my fancy.
i think i cook for a couple different reasons. it's relaxing, one, to throw ingredients into a bowl (in a systemic order and way) and to get something out of it. it's fun, two, to make new things and to know that if i really had to, if it came to the point where a mob boss said i needed to cook him an authentic italian dinner or i would be done, that i could save myself and cook up an italian storm. and it's challenging, three, to make different types of things that i never thought i would be able to make, like tonkatsu (deep fried pork cutlets) and kimchi soup.
sometimes i wish i could go to culinary school and learn crazy new things about how to enhance flavours and work with spices and stuff. who knows, maybe in the future, after i become an award-winning journalist, i can settle into a quaint little town and open julia's bakery...julia's diner...julia's fancy, schmancy restaurant.
hmm, i'm going to work on names later...they all kinda sound the same...
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