the hack writer woman cooks
I really like reading the cooking portion of Pioneer Woman’s blog, since I feel she and I share similar culinary challenges: picky eaters and a lack of “fancy” ingredients.
The similarities end there. PW takes very pretty pictures as she cooks and in the background, you can see her gorgeous kitchen, complete with big fancy appliances and stainless steel and, holy shit, counter space.
For serious, every time she posts a new recipe it looks like she’s on the set of a Food Network show.
On the contrary, here’s how I throw down.
Let’s see, we have Wal-Mart rice, some of which has spilled on the cookie tray, peanut butter, salt, salt…a waffle iron.
Of course, there’s a decent amount of evidence as to what I last cooked sprinkled on the stove top. You know, in case I want to recreate something and want to know what the ingredients were.
Ahh, my favorite. The knobs on my stove are organized in such a way that I don’t think is very intuitive. As I alluded before, I don’t have any counters, so one day while I was cooking, I set a Rubbermaid bowl on the stove and then turned what I thought was the front burner on to cook something. Yeah, it wasn’t. So, some of the bowl is still there. Coincidentally, that night was also the night we came to the dramatic realization that the baby had a tree nut allergy. It sucked, too, since I made this really yummy green curry with ground cashews. Not only were the leftovers cold and worthless when we got back from the hospital hours later, they were also deadly. Yay!
Also, this guy comes in and judges me.
For the record, I’m making apple butter pork tonight. Yum.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Did I already send you the link to the pasta thing?
http://www.amateurgourmet.com/2007/04/the_dinner_im_a.html
I’ve made this twice now. It’s super easy and since it makes a ton, it’s good to feed to ravenous men. Bonus: no tree nuts.
April 9th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Apple butter pork…oh damn that sounds tasty