I DON’T like cooking…
I’m not really a cook.
Not at all.
As a writer, I don’t buy cook books, and I make the same favourite foods over and over again.
Much prefer to dig over a vegetable patch or unpick my embroidery mistakes…
But sometimes just having a super veggie garden out the door is enough to spur me on.
Today was one such day.
Last night husband and self watched a show called Made in Italy and the presenter/chef cooked a yummo dish of zucchini flowers and young zooks (courgettes?) over fresh pasta. It was too good to ignore. So I picked the flowers, the zooks, the fresh basil and cooked away. Served it over cappelleti with a bit of lemon zest and grated pecorino.
Oh – my – gosh!!!!
Also served a roasted peach, mint and feta salad. The glaze for that is amazing – star anise, cardamom, sugar, vinegar and so on. Heaven! The meal sounds too filled with flavours but truly it wasn’t. (I have an overly sensitive gut, allergies and have to really careful) and even ten minutes after finishing, I could identify each single flavour in the most tantalising blend.
I also made a cake for my friend’s 70th birthday tomorrow – a chocolate almond jobby that has a layer of milk- chocolate mousse. To counter the richness, I picked a bowl of raspberries from the berry house for the top.
AND found 2 sparklers in the drawer to light to celebrate!
But my friend is taking people away on their boat for the this celebratory day and my husband wonders if sparklers and gas cyinders etc might not go together. MY biggest worry is that their boat fridge may not be big enough to keep the cake and its mousse cold and set for the day.
And not to be outdone, my husband picked 2 kgs of cherry plums and made sour cherry jam – something we all call Cherry Glug. We love it!
And all this in a house where I DON’T LIKE COOKING!
Now – back to hotfooting it through 12th century Byzantium!
I confess to not being overfond of everyday cooking ,my beloved does most of it (had to when I was working as always in late and after him!!) but i do like making jams chutneys etc and baking 🙂 tend to do the things that he can’t or doesn’t fancy doing, but it works well for us
I’m with you, Libby. I like the preserves and the cakes, but everyday stuff is so repetitious and boring. How can I encourage hubby to take up an interest? Tell him it’s being part of a Hunter-Gatherer?
Interesting. I am not permitted in the kitchen unless on a leash. Family joke! I Can’t Cook!
I tend to burn things including destroying close to a dozen pot/pans over 50 years of marriage. I unfortunately tend to put the stove on high due to impatience, get distracted, and by the time I remember the food…the smoke detector is howling and if I’m real lucky, only the food has been burned, not the pot handle itself. Scrubbing out pots is a minor hobby. She got me a timer to wear around the neck, not much help because I seldom wear my hearing aids at home unless TV on, so I don’t hear the warning and no sense of smell for the smoke.. However, I do a mean grilled cheese sandwich, and not too bad with fish. I’d be lost without TV dinners or canned food that I can toss into the microwave. Used to grill a mean steak long ago but she has forbidden that…she’s on a healthy food kick. O’well!
Gordon, I have loved reading this! It did make me laugh. Especially the bit about the timer and hearing aids! I’m sure my hubby would be patting you on the back and saying ‘Well done, mate. You’re upholding the tradition of the Common Man. i.e.: Keep out of the kitchen!’