Feed me!
I am just about ready to prostrate myself before the gods of cooking and implore them, "Why, merciless gods, why do you torture me so? Why do I suck at cooking so, so badly?" And they will laugh and hurtle a takeout pizza at me. You know, I live in New York. It's not like I have to cook. I could get a perfectly delicious meal for five dollars. But it's something I so dearly want to be good at. Or at least competent. I would settle for competent. But here I am, following the recipe EXACTLY, and all of a sudden I've got enough eggplant to feed a family of twelve who really, really love eggplant, and the potatoes are still totally raw, and I don't know how to peel tomatoes, and I burned the spices, and I think I'm going to go order a burrito. I can't take this kind of stress. Lord preserve me.
posted by gurgly at 8:47 PM
3 Comments:
Bird and I once got into a debate about the best way to peel tomatoes, which resulted in a tomato-peeling contest. Bird peels them by sticking a fork in them and holding them over the burner until the skin is blistered, the way you'd roast a red pepper. The skin can then be washed or peeled off. I blanch them in boiling water for about thirty seconds, then quickly drop them in cold water - the skin slides off like a glove. My method was faster, but Bird's method produced a richer tasting tomato - I think the heat causes the outer flesh to artificially ripen.
All of which is to say, sorry we didn't show you how. It was a small kitchen.
I sort of remember that debate, actually, though I obviously didn't get too invoved. As it turns out, though, immediately after I finished this post the whole meal came together and turned out to be delicious. Go figure!
Hay gurgly, what you might do, IF you read much, anyway, is read cookbooks. Just read em. Don't try any recipes, just read cookbooks. After a while you will know how to cook!
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