if you'd feel comfortable (or would want), I'd be happy to help teach some of those basic techniques. I am also itching to do some serious cooking/baking (maybe I'll post a list like you did). Anyway, I'm fairly proficient in the kitchen, especially with those sorts of basic things. Also, I have a shelf full of cookbooks and bon appetit/gourmet magazines I'd be happy to loan out if you'd like.
I do have several cookbooks that I'm fond of, but somehow they never make it back out to Oregon when I go to Ohio for a visit, and my parents seem reluctant to send them. (Perhaps they think that if they deprive me of food, I will return home..? Who knows.) Thank you, though-- perhaps we will have exciting food adventures sometime soon?
None of these are actually beyond my skill level, just things I haven't done before. (For Thanksgiving here, Jay and I made salmon pan-seared in ginger and curry powder, roasted red potatoes with mint, wild rice, and asparagus sauteed in garlic and butter.. I have, in fact, cooked Interesting Food before.) Rice cookers are for the weak!
During the school year, I won't have the time to perform any of these experiments-- it'll be a lot of things that I can cook without too much time/effort but which will give me the energy to stay up late and translate ridiculous quantities of Greek. That tends to run towards pasta and rice with stir-fried vegetables or cheese or simple sauces. The weird thing is just the several basic cooking skills I'm missing-- like making a white sauce, or vegetable stock, or salad dressing-- amid a generally not-expert-but-not-novice skill level.
yeah i'm living off campus next year in a house a few blocks down the road. no more meal plan for me!
this summer, it looks like i'll be working a couple of jobs in providence and staying in the house (mentioned above haha) and cooking my way through everything i know and have ever wanted to learn.
Awesome! That is essentially what I'm doing out here, and also what I did last summer, except for moving back into the dorms at the end of the summer last time. [Not so much this time. It will be so good to have space, a kitchen, and roommates who are not drunk next semester.]
i am very fond of scones and other related breakfast foods and pretty good at them. i am also partial to mollusks of all types. i'll invite you to my various cooking adventures this summer if you want.
I suppose you could make some sort of savory, scone-like biscuit, but I'm having trouble imagining how that would still count as a scone for the purposes of "scones and mussels in combination".
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During the school year, I won't have the time to perform any of these experiments-- it'll be a lot of things that I can cook without too much time/effort but which will give me the energy to stay up late and translate ridiculous quantities of Greek. That tends to run towards pasta and rice with stir-fried vegetables or cheese or simple sauces. The weird thing is just the several basic cooking skills I'm missing-- like making a white sauce, or vegetable stock, or salad dressing-- amid a generally not-expert-but-not-novice skill level.
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i can't wait until this summer and next year to do some serious cooking myself.
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Are you moving out of a dorm at that point, or..?
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this summer, it looks like i'll be working a couple of jobs in providence and staying in the house (mentioned above haha) and cooking my way through everything i know and have ever wanted to learn.
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Not going back to Ohio is always a good plan.
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