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Sun, May. 4th, 2008 10:10 pmI was in a horrible mood this morning and afternoon, despite going to my farmers' market and getting not only the fresh peas and strawberries that I got last week, but also seeing the first of this year's cherries.
Then I got a pedicure with my mom and went to Left Bank with the mom and a friend of hers; had delicious cheese with blueberry compote, scallops with risotto and mushrooms, frisee salad with bacon and mustard vinaigrette, calamari, this salmon-esque fish on top of asparagus, an apricot galette with almond cream, and a petite profiterole topped with chocolate sauce; and finally sat in another auntie's house flipping through the French Laundry cookbook. I feel much better now!
Tomorrow, I will shell the peas (so wonderfully and oddly relaxing) have salad with homemade vinaigrette, eat strawberries and/or cherries, eat leftover risotto, and plan what to do with the fresh pasta from the market.
The French Laundry cookbook makes me love food so much, even though I would never make anything in it. I am too lazy -- the cookbook notes that in the restaurant, everything moved from one pan to another is strained and strained until clear, among other preparatory measures -- and the ingredients are too rarified. But oh, it is good to read about it, and Thomas Keller's love of food, particularly for things like offal shines through every page. I love that he thinks the epitome of cooking is to take a cheap cut or parts you would normally throw away and to make it an amazing dish.
One sad thing in my market -- I think my pea guy, absent since last fall, has permanently gone. I hope he's gone to another, more profitable market, rather than been squeezed out, because he had peas (English and sweet) and fava beans and haricots vert and romanos and cranberry beans, and someone else should at least get the benefit of his produce. There are a few other empty spots as well, which also makes me sad.
I hope the increase of ready-made food in the market hasn't driven people out, even though I love the French pastry place and the fresh pasta place that I think is at the Ferry Building on Saturdays. And though I do not usually cook meat, I am glad to see more meat in the market for non-vegetarian people who try to cook locally.
Oh food! How wonderful you are! Oh market! How I will miss you when I am in Taiwan, though I will take many pictures and eat tons of the tropical fruit there to make up for it.
Then I got a pedicure with my mom and went to Left Bank with the mom and a friend of hers; had delicious cheese with blueberry compote, scallops with risotto and mushrooms, frisee salad with bacon and mustard vinaigrette, calamari, this salmon-esque fish on top of asparagus, an apricot galette with almond cream, and a petite profiterole topped with chocolate sauce; and finally sat in another auntie's house flipping through the French Laundry cookbook. I feel much better now!
Tomorrow, I will shell the peas (so wonderfully and oddly relaxing) have salad with homemade vinaigrette, eat strawberries and/or cherries, eat leftover risotto, and plan what to do with the fresh pasta from the market.
The French Laundry cookbook makes me love food so much, even though I would never make anything in it. I am too lazy -- the cookbook notes that in the restaurant, everything moved from one pan to another is strained and strained until clear, among other preparatory measures -- and the ingredients are too rarified. But oh, it is good to read about it, and Thomas Keller's love of food, particularly for things like offal shines through every page. I love that he thinks the epitome of cooking is to take a cheap cut or parts you would normally throw away and to make it an amazing dish.
One sad thing in my market -- I think my pea guy, absent since last fall, has permanently gone. I hope he's gone to another, more profitable market, rather than been squeezed out, because he had peas (English and sweet) and fava beans and haricots vert and romanos and cranberry beans, and someone else should at least get the benefit of his produce. There are a few other empty spots as well, which also makes me sad.
I hope the increase of ready-made food in the market hasn't driven people out, even though I love the French pastry place and the fresh pasta place that I think is at the Ferry Building on Saturdays. And though I do not usually cook meat, I am glad to see more meat in the market for non-vegetarian people who try to cook locally.
Oh food! How wonderful you are! Oh market! How I will miss you when I am in Taiwan, though I will take many pictures and eat tons of the tropical fruit there to make up for it.
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