Virtual Birthday Party, Day 2

[wiseheart]

Dear all,

Day 1 of the party has been a great success: 170 comments on 2 pages so far. As agreed, I hereby kick off the second day, so that we won't lose everything like last year, should LJ crash our party again.

Threads of interest can still be commented on, but I ask you to start any new threads here from now on

And now: on with the party!!!

Comments

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

I'm a completely rubbish cook; I don't think I've ever cooked something of which I was truly proud. I'm known for burning water whilst boiling it and I've nearly caused a number of fires by putting the wrong things into microwaves/ovens...

Simple dishes I love... My mother used to cook some cheese biscuits/flat cakes called sables. Wonderful fresh, rather like very cheesy cheese scones, but flatter. Must try to find the recipe some day. Also a tomato & onion salad, just with sliced home-grown tomatoes & mild onions in rings, with a garlicky French dressing. Yum. Now that's simple enough even for me, though we can't grow tomatoes here. And I adore hard-boiled eggs, still slightly warm, with home-made mayonnaise finished with paprika. Can't make mayonnaise, sadly. Oh, and fishcakes with an oily fish and a nice creamy tartare sauce, smoked fish pâté. My mother was a really good cook.

And in restaurants in the right part of the world certain kinds of shellfish. Fresh locally caught mussels or scallops, just with butter & lemon. Mmm...

[wiseheart.livejournal.com]

Burning water doesn't mean a thing! Mum and I are both fairly good cooks and yet managed to do so repeatedly, damaging very useful pots in the process. Pots of the kind you no longer can get, in this sci-fi environment of stainless steel kitchen utensils. We both hate those.

[espresso-addict.livejournal.com]

It takes real talent to burn water in a stainless steel pan, though. And I once put a Cornish pasty in my mother's oven in all its packaging, and came close to wrecking the oven. She never forgave me, and would bring this incident up years later whenever I offered to cook anything.