Sunday, August 16, 2009

when you give a mom a call of desperation...

...you end up with a kitchen full of spices! Apparently phones calls starting with "Mom, I want to cook something, have any ideas?" followed up by "lemon pepper, one lemon, frozen chicken, goldfish, jelly, stale bread, peanut butter, and cheerios" (after being asked what I have available in my kitchen) can really make the maternal instinct kick into overdrive. I guess there's no real recipe that calls for those ingredients all at the same time? Who knew.

So a couple short weeks after this convo, our pantry got a facelift!


Name a spice/seasoning, it's now in my kitchen, thanks to good ol' mom. Combined with the stack of recipes my NiNi just gave me, and a little inspiration from Julie and Julia (not to mention the numbers on the scale lately...thank you P Terry's and Chuy's), my mission is to learn to cook. Not only to cook, but cook something edible, that could be a challenge.

Any recipe suggestions?