EYE’Z IN THE STEAMY KITCHEN COOKBOOK PART II

September 8th, 2009

Another blogger whose talent in writing and cooking I envy is Carol Blymire. Also an always commenter on her sites, I followed her at the end of T he French Laundry at Home and into Alinea at Home secretly wondering where the hell she finds the time for a job, a family, photographing, cooking and experimenting in a kitchen as opposed to a laboratory AND wondering how the heck she finds such good friends in her neighbors that she invites them over for a ‘try-this’ party. That she actually likes her neighbors is enough to dumbfound me.

So, to say I envy Carol well, lets just say, I wish to emulate her blogging lifestyle and on that note I have decided, with Jaden Hair’s permission, to do a ‘Carol’ and re-create each and every recipe from the Steamy Kitchen Cookbook recently released this October 2009.

In getting to know me you will find that I am the All Knowing, the Absolute Being and the All Powerful within the four walls of my home. ONLY. My computer complies with that same thought and from this point on; I put forth ^my Eleventh Commandment that states:

“All who shall blog from cookbooks as their sole reason for existence in the blogosphere shall hereby be known to be blogging “The Carol Way.”

Because I am scared shit that she will be pissed at me for stealing her idea and get everyone to gang up on me and blow me out of the world of food blogs that I, pitifully, feel is a clique that I REALLY want to be a part of. (the opposite of every ideal I ever taught my kids).

Now that Part 1 and Part 2 have been explained please join me for my next post and the beginning of an odyssey for me that I never thought I would take.

Thank you Jaden for allowing me the privilege of having an early edition of your powerful book so that I can prepare my ingredients and set up my tripod and get a sufficient supply of Chlomazepam from my doctor, who I might add is on Medicare and cost-free. Don’t worry it’s not all it’s cracked up to be but that is a whole other blog.

And Carol, what can I say? Will you still love me in the morning?

Today is August 11, 2009, just eleven days after my move and three days into unpacking my kitchen because kitchen renovations took a whole three weeks longer than anticipated. So, I took myself off to see Julie and Julia for a much needed break from boxes. (bad girl that I am, I wrote these two posts earlier than their expected posting date)

I admit this post was written in August, just in the throes of having too much time for nothing, while waiting for workmen to finish the job hired to do eight weeks earlier and is now two weeks late; it was also before I saw the movie and in anticipation of being totally prepared to begin being committed to writing a blog.

Whew ! a mouthful of words…

Not knowing who Julie Powell was nor unaware of blogging pre my internet search for Drunken Chicken and Szechuan Salt, I wrote this post thinking that I was mimicking a ‘Carol’ – low and behold today I picked up on the possibility that there are others going this same route of a blog. No less distinguished I might add. My ignorance sometimes astounds even me.

So I come clean and tell all: while Julie Powell admired Julia Child during a time of transition in her life; so I admire Jaden during a time of transition in my life. And while Julia Child is no stranger to anyone, Jaden is a stranger to me but no less an esteemed author and my inspiration for beginning this blog and it is my ultimate delight and honour to blog the Steamy Kitchen Cookbook, and now that I saw Julie and Julia my inspiration is impossible to smother. The tables are turned; Jaden is a young mother and I am an ‘older’ mother; I have more life experience, she has more cooking experience; her hair is dark, mine is dyed blonde; she admits to being 37, I admit to 25; she has a sense of humour, I am droll; she went bowling with her kids and loved it; I went bowling with my kids and hated it;

For the times they are a-changin’.