Staying Put
Good, I'm glad loads of people are staying here. I'm already settled here, and I was not looking forward to a move. Really, I guess I was just trying to mentally prepare myself, or pre-worrying, about what might happen if all my friends jumped ship. Phew.
Ok, well, I'm trying to make pot roast. I never made it to Target for a Crock Pot--I've been way too lazy, but I do still plan on getting one in the future. And then I will try evaporated's recipe and zophos's also. At the moment, I am trying to do it the "old fashioned" way in Jake's cast iron Dutch oven with a recipe from this cookbook called Deep South Staples by Robert St. John, who is from Hattiesburg.
If it's good, I'll post the recipe and the modifications I made to it. If not, we'll forget we ever had this little talk; and Jake and I will be dining at Arby's this evening.
For Xmas, my parents got me this book called Secret Ingredients which is a large collection of really great food writing from the annals of The New Yorker. I am loving it! I like that it's so diverse. My two favorite pieces so far have been an article about harvesting and delivering clams from the ocean to the Manhattan clam bar and one about the traditional "beefsteak" dinner of New York's men's clubs and political organizations. Both of these articles were written by the same guy in, if memory serves me, 1939. The newer articles are also good, like one about Julia Child from 1974. I'm only half-way through it, but I already whole-heartedly recommend it to anyone who enjoys reading well-written prose about food and/or cooking.