My chef/husband took my favorite knife to work and will not bring it back home.
It’s the perfect knife. It truly is. I never knew I could come to love and use a knife that much.
But like I said, my chef/husband took it to work and will not bring it home.
Now in all fairness, he does use it a bit more at work than I would at home.
But still, it’s not very nice of him to have this amazing vegetable cleaver at home for a few weeks between jobs, allow me to fall in love with it and use it for practically everything, and then take it to work and not bring it home.(more…)
In the midst of all the craziness, I found a little time for myself. So here are a few of my favorite things this month:
I’ve had the chance to blog a little bit more and have loved all the emails I have received from other chef wives and girlfriends, some asking my opinion on things and some just saying hello and chatting. I love it!
I remember 20 years ago walking around Macy’s and Williams Sonoma, registering for our wedding with my fiancé. (I feel old!) I will be honest, I thought he was completely insane for putting a $450 knife set on our registry. Who in the world would spend that kind of money on a gift for us and why in the world do we need knives that cost that much? I remember thinking that same thing about a Kitchen Aid stand mixer and our pots and pans as well.
I wanted to register for little gadgets that made everything easier. For example, I thought we needed an onion chopper. That’s how I grew up learning to cut an onion. Doesn’t everyone use one of these to cut onions?
But of course, why would we need something that cuts an onion into inconsistent sized pieces, when we could do it better with a knife? (And when I say we, I really mean him. After 19 years I am very efficient at cutting an onion. It only took about 10 lessons from my chef/husband to learn. Seriously. Don’t laugh at me.)(more…)
What a month . . . school’s out, the sun is shining, I had pimento cheese for the first time, got some great new clothes, went on a wonderful date with my chef/husband and I discovered this!
There are not many times where I can tell my chef/ husband about something new in the kitchen. Actually, I don’t think there has ever been a time . . . until now.
We drink a lot of smoothies and make a lot of salad dressings and salsas. We don’t have a Vitamix. . . just an ordinary Oster blender recommend by Cook’s Illustrated a while back. It works fine, but when you use a mason jar with it, it is AMAZING!! The smoothies are so much thicker and frothier (is that a word?). You don’t have to take the top off the blender and scrape down the sides. It just works great!! Plus, it’s one less dish to wash since we drink out of mason jars. (Because washing the blender is so much work!) I wish I would have known about this when I was trying to make baby food a few years ago! (more…)
I am not much of a reader. (Don’t tell any of my past students.) I love to read blogs, but do not reach out for books (or the Kindle app on my tablet) as often as I should.
So I have to be honest, I’m a bit surprised with myself that I’m writing about a book I read. Never thought that would happen . . .
However, when I discovered a new book written by another chef’s wife (who lives in Seattle of all places!!!!), how could I not read it?(more…)
