What’s your favorite way to treat your garlic?
… and killed Mr. Basil. Water used to make him so happy, not anymore though. He had a great life while it lasted on our kitchen window sill, for almost 2 months – and even set a new record! He rocked.
When you think that it can hardly get any worse, don’t hold your breath, it can get worse. Less has to be more these days. Less sleep = getting more work done. Simple math, but really the only constant in my packed life currently. The next four weeks will be filled with ever so many deadlines, probably more than I can count with my two hands. And I try hard to not loose my sense of humor when our bathroom mirror routinely greets me with two sleepy eyes every morning, Ã la Groundhog Day. Consuming most of my energy right now, finishing this project of mine does take priority, hence I will set this blog to a different mode for the next few weeks. What’s going to happen?
From now on almost daily you will find a new photo on d:d, this could either be a kitchen snapshot, recipe impression, sneak peaks from my upcoming book, yummy tidbits or everything else that deserves the tag delicious. Stay tuned and curious – maybe a quick recipe will sneak its way in, too. Posting as usual will then resume at the end of May.
One of the most satisfying moments in a kitchen has to be the successful attempt to (re)create a dish from scratch, without a recipe & no ingredients given, equipped with merely the recollection of what it tasted like when you enjoyed it. A dish for instance that you have had at a restaurant or a store-bought something rather. It does takes a good share of enthusiasm to try over and over again, neither having instructions at hand, nor knowing if you will succeed in the end. But the reward if you do succeed is almost priceless. Two successful endeavors immediately come to my mind: a hearty soup, which has become a favorite of mine and a refreshing ice cream creation imitating a bar of white chocolate.
