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The spareness that is January usually creates waves of baking nostalgia. Where was that recipe for brown-butter chocolate chip cookies? Wait, I still have cranberries, maybe cranberry bread. Julia Child's 1996 baking compendium, surely I've made more than one of her Top Ten essentials? This year, instead, I'm content to listen and learn, though wait, it's the Internet, so that means read and learn. Here are a handful of posts that got me to thinking -- and talking, and listening, and questioning, all over dinner.
Tea & Cookies ~ Begs the question, What are my dreams for the new year?
READ Being Intentional; here's an excerpt, "Rather than a list of things I want 'not' to do in the new year—how about a list of things I want to do? A list of goals. A list of dreams. A list of intentions."
Chocolate & Zucchini ~ Begs the question, What kind of cook do I want to be?
READ Perfect Roasted Potatoes; here's an excerpt, "I want to be someone who can be trusted to prepare a good, well-rounded, home-cooked meal. A meal that has personality, yes, but one that doesn't try too hard, and relies chiefly on good taste and good technique."
Poor Girl Gourmet ~ Begs the question, How many of the 'local' and 'organic' food people are ready to move out of the haven that is Whole Foods to raise -- and slaughter -- their own food? (NOTE: this post is beautiful and eloquent but is not for everyone.)
READ Not for the Faint: Killing It in 2010; here's an excerpt, "There are no pretty pictures [in this post]. There is only gruesome chicken slaughter and tales of slaughter -- chicken and otherwise -- contained within this post. If you are offended by blood, headless chickens, innards, or by discussion of those or any related subjects, I'd advise you to skip past this post to another more pleasant one."
Kitchen Caravan ~ Begs the question, What ingredient represents my own food heritage?
READ Growing Up Garlic; here's an excerpt, "Our mother embraces garlic the way most people embrace water -- for us, they are of equal importance to daily consumption and could by now possibly be of equal ratio in our bodies. That may be a bit of an exaggeration, but without a doubt we were raised to identify the taste of garlic not by its presence, but how, when, and where it is absent."
Your Home-Based Mom ~ Begs the question, What is the one thing, the one thing, I'd like to discover, experience, savor, every day, every single day, this year?
READ Finding 50; here's an excerpt, "I have decided that each day of my 50th year (I guess technically it is my 51st) I am going to find the pretty in being 50."
Serious Eats ~ Begs the question, What food words should be banished from my own
READ Poll: Food Words People Should Stop Using in 2019; here's an excerpt, "Certain food buzzwords just make you cringe a little deep down ... Sometimes we say the terms out of habit or convenience without realizing how irritating and shudderworthy they really are -- until someone else uses it and you remember just how much you hate that word."
Wicked Good Dinner ~ Begs the question, What would it take to cook without measuring? How would one be a good food blogger without measuring?
READ Learn to Measure without Measuring Cups; here's an excerpt, "Because I cook so often, I learned to recognize what a cup of flour looks like in my mixing bowl, and what a quarter teaspoon of salt looks like in the palm of my hand. It's technically a Montessori method -- learning by visualization -- and works perfectly when you need a half teaspoon of cinnamon and can't extract the measuring spoons that managed to tangle themselves around the wires of the balloon whisk in your overcrowded utensil drawer."
Nourishing Days ~ Begs the question, Am I cooking the most nutritious home-cooked food possible? Am I?
READ My Reasoning for Soaking Grains, Nuts & Seeds; here's an excerpt, "... when I read that my version of homemade bread may not be good for you, I was a little disappointed."
Rulhman ~ Begs the question, Am I part of the problem or the solution?
READ America: Too Stupid to Cook; here's an excerpt, "Americans are being taught that we’re too stupid to cook. That cooking is
