In the Kitchen

The cool weather makes me want to cook and bake and eat. Tonight Ramona and I started making Buttermilk and Currant Whole Wheat Bread...yum! Ramona says, "Can I help you dough it?" This means "knead it." She loves to knead and eat the dough. Tonight I told her to stop eating it. She says, "Why? Are there rotten eggs in it?" What she meant was, "Are there raw eggs in it?" Andrew said that it sounded like a Southern specialty..."Rotten Egg Bread".





Andrew and I have started having "dates" every week or two. The kids stay home with a babysitter or go to a friends house, while we spend a few hours doing whatever we want. This afternoon we went to Barnes and Nobles (Johnson City doesn't have an independent book store or we would have gone there instead) for our date. I know it doesn't sound that exciting, but for two book lovers it is. I was so pleased to discover a book on Indian food, Mangoes and Curry Leaves: Culinary Travels Through the Great Subcontinent, by two of my favorite cookbook authors, Jeffrey Alford and Naomi Duguid. They have the coolest job as food anthropologists and cookbook authors ... traveling around the world with their two kids studying, eating, and photographing food and the people who make it. I have two of their books, Seductions of Rice: A Cookbook and Home Baking: The Artful Mix of Flour and Traditions from Around the World.