Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Day 62 - Long Cooked Broccoli

Long Cooked Broccoli - pg. 294

Haven't we all learned to steam broccoli just until it's bright green, never beyond? So when I saw the title of this recipe in Alice Waters' cookbook, I wondered why Alice and I had been living on different planets all these years. Wuh!???? Wack up the broccoli and cook it for an hour? Beg pardon? Is this the 50s back in Wisconsin when and where I was raised? But, I have pledged to cook everything in TAOSF, so I dove in with abandon.

Basically, you create a near-puree seasoned with salt, garlic, and lemon juice. Then you toss it with cooked pasta. It was pretty good. I served it with kashi made with chicken broth. The kashi has a history itself. It's a box that has been sitting in our pantry for... oh... a very long time. Along with a few others. I probably should have tossed them when we moved, but I'm too cheap. Now I see them all as experiments I'm eager to try, just like all those recipes.

Otherwise? It rained a lot again this morning. My main project for the day was to finish the last organizing of my stuff in my closet. My jewelry. Sounds weird, I know, that it would take half of a day to organize one woman's jewelry, but ya gotta remember that I do beadwork. And I have friends who do beadwork. And a husband who knows that gifts of jewelry are always appropriate and appreciated. And I almost never send old stuff to the thrift shop. In the old house I had necklaces on a rack in my closet and lots of stuff in assorted boxes in dresser drawers and on my dresser. Here? No rack on the wall. No boxes in drawers. No dresser at all. Just shelves. And a nicer collection of boxes. You wouldn't believe how much junk I found in the old boxes. Maybe you would. The rest is all neat and lovely now.

42 recipes completed; 263 to go

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