I can be quite compulsive obsessive when it comes to cooking. This usually manifests itself through repeated (obsessive) preparation of a dish that I just “discovered”. When I was thirteen, I made crêpes every day for about a year and although I am nowhere near this bad these days, my husband could tell you some interesting stories… like about the time I discovered Jamie Oliver’s Piri Piri Chicken* and we had it every single night for a week and every single day the dish woud get spicier than the one I made the day before (*do buy this book
, by the way, it’s fantastic). Fortunately, the husband has a good sense of humor about it and upon entering the house and smelling the Piri Piri or whatever was the obsession du jour, he’d say something like “You know, I’ve been craving this whole day long, actually, on my ride home I was just thinking how wonderful it would be to have some Piri Piri”. So by the time I got obsessed with quiches of all sorts, he already had his routine down and just silently braced himself for another tasty yet monotonous week. And after a while, something strange yet sweet happened, the intensity of my quiche obsession subsided but the husband still helpfully suggests, at least once a week, that I should make some quiche for dinner. Yup, that’s how tasty it is.
Read the full article »
Question: How do you know that you’ve been neglecting your food blog? Answer: When the last post is about a duck, which not only was never your dinner, but rather a living animal who is nesting on your balcony and who just came back for another nesting season… meaning that a whole year has gone by since your last post and that this duck has had more in the oven than you have. Well, that last part may be a slight exaggeration, since in this past year, my oven got quite a bit of action… one could even say that it has gotten around, if you know what I mean… that slutty slutty oven… Ok, this is one of those unfortunate metaphors, which should definitely not be continued, because who knows where it might take me.* So anyway, recently, the oven has been my accomplice in the obsessive preparation of quiches of all sorts. Here’s a quick fact for you, I have always loved quiche but never made one till about a month ago. I guess it’s because quiche always seemed to register high on the PITA meter (for an explanation about PITA go here). And then one day, completely randomly, I decided to make Quiche Lorraine, which ended up turning into a quiche mania of sorts. Once I mastered Quiche Lorraine, I moved to Quiche Flamiche and then moved in the direction of savory tarts, like the Eggplant-Tomato tart. I am pretty sure that I will soon spill into sweet tarts. And speaking of tarts, did I mention that my oven was one?
Read the full article »
