Becca Loves Food: September 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Sorry, Becca HATES food

Don't even talk to me about that four letter f-word right now. I'm sure that in several months, I might be able to tolerate things like, yiccchhhhh, onions, or, godforbid, GARLIC.

But for now I'm going to wallow in my 2nd trimester misery, choking down string cheese and mocha protein shakes (half milk, with ice, please) and enjoy the luxury of having Matt be the Food Guy.

So... sorry for the long and depressing silence. Believe me, you don't want to know what I'm eating these days. Think bland colorless high protein unflavored kid food and you'll get the idea.

So I'll see you in a couple, well, maybe lots of months, when my creative energies turn again to the gourmet rather than to incubation.

My Erratic Rubric

I doodle little smileys or frownies or A+s or C-s in my cookbooks, in the margins and by recipe titles. Sometimes I write notes of my substitutions and successes and failures.
This blog is basically a public extension of that habit of rating and sorting the things I try.
I'm afraid my criteria are a bit inconsistent.
Sometimes I love a really complex and delicate recipe--as an artistic challenge and an intellectual accomplishment. Sometimes I just want it fast and delicious. So I can't claim any kind of internal logic to my grading system. If I come up with something solid, I'll let you know. But in the meantime, forgive my idiosyncratic ABCs, and I hope you enjoy the recipes!