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- From: adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: My nervous little boy
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 18:06:14 -0800
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- In article <thaaang.721976367@cwis>
- thaaang@cwis.unomaha.edu (John Dorrance) writes:
- > adolphso@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
- > >I have become a not-so-bad cook. My secret? The fabulous cookbooks
- > >_Cucina Fresca_ and _Cucina Rustica_ by Vianna La Place and Evan Kleiman.
- >
- > But... but...
-
- You heard me, young man.
-
- > >_Cucina Fresca_, in particular, could have been designed for people
- > >just beginning to cook. The recipes are clear and not at all tricky,
- > >and the food is wonderful.
-
- What makes _Cucina Fresca_ so good for a beginning cook
- is that the recipes are for simple (but *very* tasty) Tuscan
- dishes that are meant to be eaten at room temperature. So
- if you're nervous because you don't know what you're doing
- anyway, you don't have to worry about cooking two or three
- things at once.
-
- > But... Joan! What about Joan! She was your mentor! How... what...
-
- It was time for me to cut the umbilical cord and, free at last,
- soar into the stratosphere. (OK, so I mixed my metaphors, but
- you get what I mean.)
-
- > >Six months ago I didn't know how to make
- > >mashed potatoes. Now I'm making things like pan-steamed sage
- > >potatoes,
-
- They're so simple and *so* good.
-
- > >salmon scallops in peppercorn vinaigrette,
-
- Yum yum.
-
- > >pollo tonnato.
-
- Yummy yummy.
-
- > >I'm making aioli. Lemon mayonnaise. My favorite
- > >dish so far? It's a pasta dish that, if made for 4 people, calls
- > >for *twenty* cloves of garlic. Sheer heaven.
-
- Let me say it again -- sheer heaven. Homemade bread crumbs
- fried in extra virgin olive oil and tons of garlic. Garlic,
- red pepper flakes, and olive oil. Tomatoes and garlic. Pasta.
- It's *magnificent*.
-
- > Father! What about the bacon? All that nummy lard! I was *so*
- > hoping when the family finally got together we'd cozy up with
- > a big plate of cholesterol and bond around a hog... Oh, how
- > could you do this to me?
-
- I'm sorry, Johnny-boy, but I just don't eat that stuff
- any longer. But we can still cozy up and bond around
- shrimp in a spicy lime marinade.
-
- > John, world crumbling to Bac-o's around him
-
- Arne, wondering what to cook for himself tonight.
-