Jan 26 2009
Sticks and berries
I’ve been cooking a lot more lately. Here are the things I have cooked so far: fettucine alfredo, fish with Indian curry butter, rice pilaf with pistachios and peas, spinach salad with homemade croutons and chopped prunes and Dijon balsamic vinaigrette, homemade vegetable stock, pumpkin risotto, creamy tomato/porcini mushroom risotto, chocolate coconut sauce for ice cream, spicy Indian browned butter sauce for ice cream, and molten chocolate cake. I think scones are next. I was thinking quite a bit about homemade scones last night. Rachel Ray made them on her show recently; I’m generally bored with what Rachel Ray makes but this time the scone batter looked so pale and pillowy, studded all nice with dried cranberries. There’s something about dried cranberries that makes me wake up sweating in the middle of the night. You know, in a good way. Back when I was on birth control I would have whole cranberry-themed dreams, after which I would wake up and make cranberry pancakes with buttered cranberry sauce on top. It was crazy.
