irritations and bread.

[gfrancie]

Well then, I have found another Daphne Du Maurier book to add to my collection. I acquired it for fifty cents. Nothing like a cheap penguin paperback. This ought to keep me entertained along with my PG Wodehouse book.
Tonight will definitely be egg-heavy with quiche and bread pudding. There will also be quite a bit of butter and cheese.
Heart Attack will be sometime after dessert.
Film at eleven.

I realized yesterday at work while perusing the cookbooks that there are so many awful cookbooks out there and some of the worst are the celebrity cookbooks. Someone needs to stop these people.
quickly.

Enough of that though. Time for some pasta.

Comments

[robiewankenobie.livejournal.com]

i haven't been commenting much, but i wanted to take a moment to tell you how much i adore you and your little journal too. mmmmmmm scrumptious!

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

That is very kind of you to say that.

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

I need bread pudding. NOW.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Now? Geez....impatient.

[sarahparah.livejournal.com]

*whines* You mean I have to MAKE it?

I am too hormonal for that.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Oh dear...hormonal people.
I do some damn good cooking then. I take all of my irrational rage and put it into food. It kind of helps.
Sometimes I just eat a lot of chocolate and read Vogue.

A friend of mine gave me a recipe for this one version of bread pudding that uses croissants and cranberries. So it is very sweet and buttery and then there is an intense sour tang flavor of the berries.

books...

[la-sherazade.livejournal.com]

Due to rampant anglophilia, they have tons of Brit-inspired "pudding" and "crumble" cookbooks in Paris...I'm hoping to buy some before I leave. I LOVE bread pudding!

You would have drooled insanely at the Friends of the Library Sale that I went to Saturday and yesterday (it's HUGE... Gainesville is a big university town)... not much was left by yesterday afternoon, since the last day is 10 cents day (people came with shopping carts!), but I picked up a ton of mysteries (P. D. James), some vintage mysteries (old editions of Agatha Christie), vintage Mary Stewarts, an old Du Maurier hardcover, a thick stack of Gourmet magazines in pristine condition, old schoolbooks from the 50s, vintage sewing books...do we detect a theme? I'm fabulously happy and not even deterred by the thought that at some point I will have to pack all of them up and ship them to California via ye olde media mail.
I also unearthed eight boxes of my pre-college belongings from storage and am looking forward to going through all my old books and sorting them into piles to sell, ship, and store. It never ceases to amaze me that I can get so damned excited just handling little packages of paper and glue.
Vive le livre!

Re: books...

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm pudding.

I try to pace myself when it comes to Friends of the Library sales. Those things are like big orgies for me.
When do you return to Paris?

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

One of the best cookbooks that I think exist is that old Betty Crocker one with the red and white checkers. It don't fuck around.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

Own it, know it, love it! Amen.
I like the fact that is shows you how to do really simple stuff like scrambled eggs and complicated stuff like a tartine. It also has helpful guides like what temp to cook various cuts of meat.
My copy is from the mid sixties.
It owns!

[ekdogg.livejournal.com]

also...it tells you how to do stuff from hand ... like how to make spahgetti from scratch, not out of a box.

[gfrancie.livejournal.com]

I know. This is a book that essentially taught me how to cook. Along with my Mother of course.