edo ergo sum

Five things about me

1) I live in one of the greatest restaurant cities in the world and rarely eat out.

I’m cheap and never got into the habit of going to restaurants alone. I don’t do take-out by myself, either, so I either cook for myself or don’t eat.

Thankfully, New York is also one of the greatest ingredient cities in the world.

2) I will never be the best cook in the family.

Dad’s the kind of chef who can do anything as well as a high-end restaurant and make it look easy. He’s also extremely self-sufficient with the cooking thing. I did a victory dance when he ate my soup.

3) I am omnivorous except when I’m not.

I eat all fruits and vegetables except raw tomatoes, but I am not a fan of cooked carrots or parsnip in any form. Except I do make carrot soup constantly in the winter and would probably not mind well-disguised parsnip, so I’m apparently one of those kinds of picky eaters.

I like beans and make them often. Except I’m still learning not to overcook the suckers and am still trying to figure out what to do with them once they’re cooked.

I don’t eat pork or shellfish, but I’ve had both many times and miss them greatly. Except scallops. Don’t miss them too much.

I don’t eat enough meat considering that I am chronically anemic and take medication that exacerbates that. But I have a low poultry threshold and I’m too ill-educated about beef to be useful with it, which is hilarious considering the butchers in my family tree. However, I will eat anything if it comes in sausage casing.

I could live on bread. I have lived on bread. I do all of my own baking, which means I eat a lot of carbs. I’m okay with that.

I wish I could live on cheese.

4) I have no pretensions of originality, grandeur, or insight about cooking.

This blog is totally so that I can post pictures of my adventures, misadventures, and occasional successes and demand that people I know look at them.

My kitchen is late-70′s/early-80′s in design, my pots and pans are both much older and a little younger than that, and my pictures show all of that plus occasional side shots of my open dishwasher, unempty sink, appliances doubling as convenient surfaces, good-enough housekeeping, and my laziness in learning the best ways to use my digital camera.

This is not a food blog with pretense.

5) There is no number five.