Dec 30th, 2006
I wish I could cook.
I wish I could cook! I started looking through old cookbooks given to me through the years, thinking I should be able to pick something out and cook it. It sounds easy enough, right? It’s NOT! Almost every single recipe calls for an ingredients I’ve never heard of.. or it want me to do some type of preparation for which I am clueless. And.. even if I _can_ figure out where to buy the ingredients, how on earth am I supposed to be able to identify fresh or good stuff?
Heck.. when Terri answered my breakfast survey, saying she had clementines for breakfast.. I had no idea she was talking about fruit! I thought it was something she had cooked. After I googled clementines and discovered it was a mini-type orange, I started noticing those little things displayed all over the place in the grocery store. I had never even seen them before. Naturally, I bought some. That night my husband peeled one for me, and it was really good. I’m now proud to say that a few days later I actually… for the first time in my life.. peeled an orange-type fruit myself!!
I tried to make another smoothie. This one was a little better but still way too tart.
<sigh>