A little bit of NOLA for my birthday
Came home to find a package from Hové Parfumeur, a completely marvelous shop on Royal Street. My older sister had ordered some bath & body oils for me, in magnolia and honeysuckle scents. Oh, yum.
I don't think I mentioned the wonderful book my other sister sent me. It's a book about surimono, a genre of Japanese print whose circulation was confined to poetry clubs.
They both know me really well (as they ought!).
Speaking of age, today I had to fill out a registration form for a seminar. For some reason, they wanted to know how long I'd been practicing law. So I wrote it down and gave the form to our office manager. She looked at it and said, "[X] years!!!" and then realized what she'd said and got totally embarrassed. I must admit to having been a bit shocked myself when I wrote down the number.
Yesterday, I made a couple of sauces to have on hand for summer meals, pesto and tzatziki (yogurt-cucumber). Had some of the pesto on ricotta-stuffed gnocchi for dinner last night. Not much beats fresh pesto sauce! But it had me thinking, is there a word for creating cold dishes? "Cooking" doesn't work, it implies heat. And when you make a cold soup or sauce, it's more than just putting stuff out on a plate.
I don't think I mentioned the wonderful book my other sister sent me. It's a book about surimono, a genre of Japanese print whose circulation was confined to poetry clubs.
They both know me really well (as they ought!).
Speaking of age, today I had to fill out a registration form for a seminar. For some reason, they wanted to know how long I'd been practicing law. So I wrote it down and gave the form to our office manager. She looked at it and said, "[X] years!!!" and then realized what she'd said and got totally embarrassed. I must admit to having been a bit shocked myself when I wrote down the number.
Yesterday, I made a couple of sauces to have on hand for summer meals, pesto and tzatziki (yogurt-cucumber). Had some of the pesto on ricotta-stuffed gnocchi for dinner last night. Not much beats fresh pesto sauce! But it had me thinking, is there a word for creating cold dishes? "Cooking" doesn't work, it implies heat. And when you make a cold soup or sauce, it's more than just putting stuff out on a plate.