I've always wanted to do a Julie & Julia. That is, cook through a cookbook. No matter how hard the recipe is, whether or not it looks like you'll enjoy it, just cook through it. Learn lot's of things, taste new things you wouldn't otherwise try, this excites me to no end. So I've decided to dive in and do it. The Joy of Cooking is waaaaay out of my price range, and it isn't vegetarian friendly. So instead, I picked a cookbook that I got at a garage sale a few years ago:
Barefoot Contessa at Home. It's fairly vegetarian friendly, though since it isn't completely meat free I will skip around. Meat recipes when it's just me or me and a guest, and the rest when I'm cooking for Boi. Aside from that, I'm going to march from front to end. I was just going to report back some of my cooking loving friends about it, but they wanted me to blog about it as well. So... here I go then!
Alas, the first recipe is a whiskey recipe and we don't have whiskey. We're not whiskey drinkers, and I'm not seeing any other recipes in the book that use it, which would convince me to buy something I fear I might not have again. I think my dad might, or I might be able to convince my friend K to bring some with her this weekend. This seems like an adequate compromise. To go with it, she has an herb dip, which places much emphasis on good mayonnaise. I'm not sure if her intent is for me to make my own or to just not buy a crappy brand. Ah well, we'll see what happens.
First recipe coming up in the next week!
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