Big congratulations to Chris and Sinead! I haven’t even gotten to meet their first little guy yet, and they go and have another one. Someday, we’ll make the trek over to Australia and give them all big ol’ hugs.*
*Highly unlikely. But maybe they’ll come to this side of the world someday soon for a visit. Fingers crossed.
I have a habit (good or bad — you be the judge) of browsing through people’s cookbooks when I visit. Picking up Amy’s copy of Rachael Ray’s 365 days cookbook from her bookshelf led us to a brilliant idea: We’d randomly choose one recipe from the book every week, cook it and blog the results. It would be a project! It would get us a book deal! And a movie, starring Alyson Hannigan as Amy and Scarlett Johansson as me! (And Rockford as himself, because he has a ScarJo crush!)
(To be fair to Amy, I just came up with the movie deal part. She’s less delusional than some people.)
Anyway, it was an awesome plan. But then Amy made the first recipe — page 141, a Crab Tortilla — and wasn’t entirely impressed. So we changed the rules a bit.
Our project (which I’m calling “Recipe Roulette” unless Amy tells me otherwise) isn’t going to be Rachael Ray-centered. We’ll take turns picking a recipe — sometimes it’ll be a random pick, sometimes calculated — and we’ll post about it every Monday. That’s pretty much the extent of the ground rules.
Oh, and about that Crab Tortilla.
Continue reading A scrambled, crabby mashup
Rockford and I just got back from visiting Amy and Joe in Chicago. It was a lovely, lovely time. I don’t get to spend nearly enough time with Amy. We ate at Frontera Grill, watched “Whatever Works” at a humid and vaguely stinky theater and “Bonnie and Clyde” in Amy and Joe’s perfectly temperate and not-at-all stinky living room, Rockford and Joe went to the new Tarantino movie while Amy and I watched the “Project Runway” premiere, we went bowling — I had two strikes! Unheard of! — and found a great used bookstore.
I highly recommend spending a weekend with Amy and Joe. They’re terrific hosts.