Cooking, baking, writing
Dec. 20th, 2010 06:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
daidoji_giseiMy apartment smells really boozy right now. This is solely because I am cooking lentiles au vin rouge--lentils in red wine, for my fellow Anglophones. I made this a few years ago when I first got the recipe and liked it enough to think that I ought to make it again. It's taken me this long to do so because it's not often I have six cups of red wine in the house. I always have lentils, on the other hand.
Anyway, last week I remembered to grab a box of merlot (what? You don't think that the French cook their lentils in anything other than vin ordinaire, do you?) and tonight I let the cooking begin. It smells great! I have rice going in my rice cooker to serve under it--no need to waste any of that cooked-down-wine-and-aromatic-vegetables broth, after all. I should probably try it with pasta sometime as well. It makes six servings, so I will have a lot to play with.
In the meantime, my apartment smells of red wine. This is a pleasant smell but it is making me want to enjoy a glass while I'm waiting for dinner to cook. I am holding off because I really need to finish a story tonight and alcohol is not good for my writing--I need focus to write. The sacrifices I make for my art....
I made cookies in my kitchenaid last night! It was fun, except for the part where I managed to smear the creamed butter-sugar-egg yolk mixture all over the mixer. Well, I am sure I will get better at this. I baked off half the dough then and stuck the rest in the fridge because it was getting late and I wanted to get a decent night's sleep. It was still a lot of cookies, which I am planning to take in to work this week to share some holiday cheer with my coworkers. This will probably be the only batch of cookies I have time to make before Christmas, but--as I remind anyone who gives me the slightest opportunity--Christmas starts on the eve of the 24th and runs till Epiphany. So I still have a lot of time for Christmas cookies. And breads!
Anyway, last week I remembered to grab a box of merlot (what? You don't think that the French cook their lentils in anything other than vin ordinaire, do you?) and tonight I let the cooking begin. It smells great! I have rice going in my rice cooker to serve under it--no need to waste any of that cooked-down-wine-and-aromatic-vegetables broth, after all. I should probably try it with pasta sometime as well. It makes six servings, so I will have a lot to play with.
In the meantime, my apartment smells of red wine. This is a pleasant smell but it is making me want to enjoy a glass while I'm waiting for dinner to cook. I am holding off because I really need to finish a story tonight and alcohol is not good for my writing--I need focus to write. The sacrifices I make for my art....
I made cookies in my kitchenaid last night! It was fun, except for the part where I managed to smear the creamed butter-sugar-egg yolk mixture all over the mixer. Well, I am sure I will get better at this. I baked off half the dough then and stuck the rest in the fridge because it was getting late and I wanted to get a decent night's sleep. It was still a lot of cookies, which I am planning to take in to work this week to share some holiday cheer with my coworkers. This will probably be the only batch of cookies I have time to make before Christmas, but--as I remind anyone who gives me the slightest opportunity--Christmas starts on the eve of the 24th and runs till Epiphany. So I still have a lot of time for Christmas cookies. And breads!
