I just want you all to meet Faye Hess. She cooks from a normal, smallish kitchen in New York and she cooks like us. In her gnocchi video, she tells us that you should cook the potatoes in their skins, then looks down and realizes that she didn't do that. Oh well, a shake of the head, and we move on. Thank you. Thank you Faye for loving the smell of sage, and using a fork pulled from your silverware drawer, and knowing that the act of cooking is more important than the staging of cooking. Love her.
The Bean's birthday weekend was like a 4-day cupcake orgy and now I'm sporting an extra 5 pounds. I went to the store and loaded up on fruits and veggies, but something's missing... frosting! And sprinkles! I'll have the strawberries for a snack. With whipped cream and chocolate on them. Oh, and sweet potatoes, yeah. With syrup. Or marshmallows. Cantaloupe, that's healthy. With cinnamon sugar! Yesterday my client brought over a recipe for carrot cake that calls for 3 cups of carrots. Totally counts as a vegetable, but only if I eat the whole cake. You know, to get all the carrots.
