Monday, November 10, 2008

Day of Cooking AKA "I'm Taking a Day Off Work Because I'm Sick"

Call me crazy, but on my sick days, I like to buckle down and make a week's worth of food and store it all in the fridge. I think part of it stems from me not wanting to be bored. I'm not a television watcher, and my radio is broken so I can't listen to it for long without getting severely irritated with the static in the background.

I've also run out of good recipe books and novels to read. So, stuck with a refrigerator full of produce and much time on my hands, I run over to Whole Foods to round out the ingredients and start cooking. From 2pm until about 8:15pm, I have been in th kitchen chopping, dicing, blending, wrapping and mincing.

I made some carnival squash soup, swiss chard and tomato sauce to be paired with penne later in the week, sauteed broccoli raab, pickled morning radishes, kale and canellini ragout, pork wontons and fingerling potato salad with green chile-cilantro salsa.

It all turned out well. I feel relaxed, much better than I did yesterday, and actually ate a few items.

Check out the wontons I made:

mwahaha...my legions of wontons!



Monday, November 03, 2008

I Won!

I won!
I won!
I won!

I'm off to Chicago to compete in the finals in January. YEE HAW!