I am whaaaaasted. We're here to discuss some cooking.
So, I got a new blogging for books book, Vegetables by my main bitch, Martha Stewart. Anne came over and we picked a few things to cook. I had marked like 100 things and we narrowed it down to four. Once we went to the store and we realized they had mussels we narrowed it down to three things: Mussels, risotto, and some kind of veggie skillet.
Shopping was annoying because we spent eternity there. Finally we got all our ingredients and went home. I was in charge of the risotto and mussels. Anne was in charge of the skillet. The hardest part of this dinner was pulling the beards from the mussels. Neither of us were sure this was a thing, but we did it. Then it was chopping time. Otherwise we just stirred for the rest of our lives. Risotto is like chopping one time and stirring for all of time.
Once we sat down to eat it was like, we were gods. We killed the TWO POUNDS of mussels and then we devoured the rest of the food in short order. It was amazing after the hours we spent in the kitchen.
Most of the food we made was very delicious. And a lot of it I'd make again. The skillet with the corn, tomatoes, and edammame is amazing, very flavorful. The risotto is great, but too much of a pain in the ass to ever make again. And the mussels are a very basic to make again and again.
One hilarious thing about this book is that most of the recipes, and especially the ones that looked great, are not hugely vegetable based. Like, the main dish, the veggie was shallots, but it was mostly just a pound of pasta. And in the risotto (THE RISI E BISI), the veggie was peas.
I also loved that this book was very beautiful. It was photographed very well.
So would I talk about this book while drunk? Well, if i could form the words, which I'm struggling for to write about this book, yeah, but I just feel like I'm being pressured.
So would I recommend this book while drunk? Sure. It's a beautiful cookbook with a cook nearby that offers the same thing.
................
It's a good thing I'm still fucked up this morning That was such a shitty book review. LIKE WHAT EVEN IS MY LAST POINT THERE?!?!?? That's not even english. Readers, this was an AWESOME book. I am so happy I got this and I feel like I'm going to be cooking out of this thing for the rest of my life. Everything we made was AH-MAZING. I think it's the best cookbook I've received.
The two person dinner party was also a blast. Shopping was terrible, but the cooking was fun. We listened to music and drank wine and stirred forever. We ate A LOT really quickly, so then it was just us sitting there saying, "I loved all of this food." over and over again.
Most of the recipes were really easy. The combination of skit in the skillet was really interesting. It's not something I'd ever think to throw together, but it was delicious. The risotto was good, but I'm no John Podesta, I don't have that kind of time to spend on a side dish.
I will say, this was not the book I was expecting. I thought a lot of them would be side dishes, but I think for the most part it has recipes for whole meals. Some are a stretch for vegetable recipes, like the mussels, but I think it's a really well rounded cookbook. There's like a hundred other things from this book that I want to make.
YAYYY!!!! PICTURES!!!
