…i ventured to cook something completely new and even Bake!!! I love to cook and that is a terrible understatement. I take my friends’ comments like “Have you thought about opening up your own restaurant?” and “You should make this your career”, to mean that they like what I cook.
Aaron, my fiance, usually manages to get a “hmmm.. soo delicious Honey!” before he delves in and does not come up for air till his plate is licked clean 😀 I love cooking for him – he is the best recipient of all recipes I try – the good and the bad ones. I am keeping a recipe journal now, of the ones that I cook and like and they will become part of my family cookbook.
Well, yesterday, I was certainly ambitious but I know that Julia Child would have supported me all the way. I decided to make a slow cooker recipe – Beef with Apples & Sweet Potatoes. Savory meat recipe, with the meat just melting in your mouth, mixed with the sweet taste of apples and sweet potatoes! Oh wow! I also wanted to make homemade dinner rolls and bake an apple pie. The first recipe – no worries, I have used my crock pot before, but baking??? Who was I kidding – the only type of baking we did in India was ourselves, out in the sun, just baking to a slow death – the kind where your skin is still warm long after the sun goes down and you know that just can’t be good!
So I found this video of how to make simple dinner rolls and you know what?? They were delicious!!! Smelled heavenly and tasted just fantastic! Aaron and our friend Scott, could not stop eating the rolls. I made two dozen and have only 3 left! I am sure that Julia Child was very proud of me for trying to do something that I had never had the confidence to do before – BAKE! The apple pie, however, was another story…the apples were a bit too soggy..will have to work on that..maybe I was a bit too ambitious – but when i think about Julia chopping up a Mt. Everest of onions in the film, I am comforted by the fact that I have not attempted the impossible 😀
In the end, I was thrilled, as I usually am when I am learning something new in the kitchen, and so were Aaron and Scott for partaking in the experiments. I loved it!
