OK> So today I spent literally 5 of the 8 hours of my work day looking at food blogs on the Internet. The bosses were all out of the office for most of the day and I had gotten pretty much all my work done (ok, so there is still a massive pile of papers to be shred, but I can't really leave the office when I'm the only one there!), so I had some free time on my hands. I don't even recall now how I hit upon this first food blog, SmittenKitchen, this morning (it's as if it was handed down to me from on high, as the perfect "Pease" woman time-waster!) but wow. It is just pages and pages of little articles with recipes and beautiful, glossy pictures! The first recipe on the page was a gorgeous glamour shot of a lemon blueberry bread. Scroll down, and you see pictures of the ingredients heaped in the bow, and then the beaters stirring them... I know I know, this is terrible and my more prudent and moderate and... less food obsessed female kin and mother (is a mother your kin?) will surely scorn the very notion, as well as the flagrant glamorization of something that they do very often and very well, but without the glossy photos. But, on a (formerly) grey day when you are cooped at your desk, and you know for a fact that you forgot to bake the potatoes you were going to use for tonight's dinner last night, and that you won't be home to your small kitchen to start anything until at least 6;30.... well what a nice escape! Look! If I could have a day off, and I could have some brilliantly sunny and bright kitchen filled with top quality ingredient, I too could turn out these glorious foods! Or maybe it's the other way around - if I could spend time making these recipes, I too would have the beautiful sun-kissed kitchen and top quality ingredients/kitchen tools that she seems to have! But, lest we think that the first food bloggress was some sort of minor food deity, let me correct you - no! She even has a whole archive section devoted to FAILED recipes! Well, that was what sealed the deal. I bookmarked the site, and here is the link for you all to enjoy: http://smittenkitchen.com/
And then, when I had "wasted" about 3.5 hours on that site, I innocently clicked on one (or about 14) of the links the site had, and I stepped out into the wide world of food blogs...
All in all, it was a pretty nice afternoon, although I had to be indoors... and now I feel hungry...
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I'm not even going to go there. I waste entirely too much time as it is, and then there is a heap of hand-wash dishes the size of Duluth, and life becomes dismal.
Sunny kitchens seem to be key in this whole cooking-as-a-mode-of-transcending-the-ordinary approach.
Plus, if I left the food on the counter to admire/photograph it, someone would eat it before it could be made into anything else.
I think most of us Peases (current and former!) are foodies. Carolyn and I spend an inordinate amount of time talking about cooking and cuisine- but we always end up just making mac and cheese like usual!
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