It’s not that I haven’t been cooking lately, it’s just that some new things I tried went wrong and the things that turned out right.. well.. The Coq au Vin, for instance, I just forgot to take a picture of and some other stuff tasted a lot better than it looked. Some of the experiments included caramel flan (success! only need to work on the texture), coconut flan (total flop), boef bourguinion (success! looked like dog food though..) and some others.. the funny thing is, that those things that I didn’t stuck to the recipe (if I had any) turned out rather to very well (but didn’t look too good or I forgot to take pictures) and the ones I followed the recipe all turned out in a.. well, let’s face it.. they turned out in a fiasco.
Apart from experimenting in the kitchen I also ate out rather often lately. Nothing too spectacular.. rather in a “too busy to do grocery shopping” type of manner. Why I write all this? Well, today something totally unexpected happened: Somebody cooked for me! (.. and some other people) :-o The result was this (it looked way better in real than on this crappy picture):
The pepper-mushroom-sauce was very very spicy (what I’m absoluetly not used to..) and totally delicious! I’m thinking about moving in and marrying that guy who prepared this dinner right from the spot. I mean, the fact, that he actually can cook speaks for itself, doesn’t it? :D
Well, the moving and marrying part didn’t turn out so far, but I was offered a collaboration: he cooks and I do the dishes. I wasn’t too happy with this offer though.. maybe I can negotiate something more in the direction “he makes the main meals and I prepare desserts”. ;)
There’s only one slight problem: he is a friend of a friend of mine and I don’t have any contact information whatsoever. Bummer! But if this collaboration never works out I will still remember this dinner as very pleasing.
Oh, by the way: Have you noticed that I’m a Featured Publisher at Foodbuzz now? =) I’m still thinking about how to adequatly celebrate this. ^^
Quite a story but interesting. Congratulations for being the Featured Publisher on Foodbuzz too.