Steps to Culinary Goddess-hood
Dec. 19th, 2007 01:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_songsmithActually, becoming a culinary goddess is apparently very easy. All you have to do is make oatmeal raisin (and oatmeal raisin walnut; half batch of each) cookies in front of a classmate who thinks "baking" is getting the kind of pilsbury cookies you have to put an egg in before you bake. You then take these cookies as your contribution to the post-finals party, whereupon your classmate tells everyone how miraculous it was that "that little bit of granules" became actual dough, and then cookies!
Meanwhile, you volunteer to help the clearly-stressed host (who needed a glass of wine more than any cook I've ever seen) do prep in the kitchen, and in the process rescue his third attempt at toast (for the stuffing) from burning. While conducting a briefargumentdiscussion with him because he's basting the bloody turkey every five minutes, argh!
Upon which the entire array of guests decided they stood in awe of the cookie-baker (and apparently, they were really good cookies) who could also mash potatoes and conduct an argument on the merits of turkey-basting versus leaving the damn bird alone to do its thing, and carve it afterwards when said host confessed his attempts to carve usually resembled chunks more than slices.
Not that they weren't also in awe of the host, who turned out a bird that was quite good despite the basting, green bean casserole, mac & cheese, and reeeeeally good homemade stuffing in a kitchen not a heck of a lot bigger than mine. (Read: the two of us working in it were hip-to-hip.)
And I had... *looks briefly at fingers, gives up attempt to count* ... several glasses of very good merlot.
Meanwhile, you volunteer to help the clearly-stressed host (who needed a glass of wine more than any cook I've ever seen) do prep in the kitchen, and in the process rescue his third attempt at toast (for the stuffing) from burning. While conducting a brief
Upon which the entire array of guests decided they stood in awe of the cookie-baker (and apparently, they were really good cookies) who could also mash potatoes and conduct an argument on the merits of turkey-basting versus leaving the damn bird alone to do its thing, and carve it afterwards when said host confessed his attempts to carve usually resembled chunks more than slices.
Not that they weren't also in awe of the host, who turned out a bird that was quite good despite the basting, green bean casserole, mac & cheese, and reeeeeally good homemade stuffing in a kitchen not a heck of a lot bigger than mine. (Read: the two of us working in it were hip-to-hip.)
And I had... *looks briefly at fingers, gives up attempt to count* ... several glasses of very good merlot.
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Date: 2007-12-19 05:17 pm (UTC)