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Dec. 21st, 2007 01:52 pmI love my dad. Really, I do, despite our very rocky relationship for most of my life. But he's... he's a pig. So when he pestered me relentlessly to come over and make Christmas cookies from this ancient family recipe of my mom's, which only he, I, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mlyn actually like, I finally caved in and said he could come over while I was ostensibly working. Even though I knew I'd have to take care of everything and not be able to do my work.
Now, keep in mind, I've barely had the chance to use my new kitchen to cook much. I still haven't replaced all the stuff I threw out with better, last a lifetime cookware and utensils. But yesterday dad comes over and brings like a trail-drive's worth of stuff with him and proceeds to completely blitz my kitchen. It looked like Beirut if Beirut were made of flour and lard. It took me nearly an hour to clean up. There was dough everywhere. I finished making the cookies after he pooped out, and it was just... well, I could have killed someone with the rolling pin, just because it was the worst rolling pin in the history of ever. I told him to take it away and never bring it back.
And today he wants to finish by icing the cookies with this other ancient family recipe. Which would be okay except... it entails powdered sugar. OMG y'all, powdered confectioner's sugar in the hands of a dancing bear! Imagine the carnage. I haven't even used the new dining table and it's already a mess with molasses spills and sugar.
Anyway, this weekend I plan to do my own cooking by making my first ever Irish soda bread, as well as trying to make mac and cheese. I was looking at mac recipes online, and I am stymied. Almost all of them have... bread crumbs. What the hell? Bread crumbs? When did mac and cheese have bread in it? That is such an aberration to me, yet it seems as if many people expect it. It's that way in nearly every recipe book I have.
So what say you? Is it a regional thing? Is that what you expect? And what does that do to the cheesy gooeyness that makes good mac and cheese? I should do a poll but I don't have the time. Maybe in the next post.
mlyn actually like, I finally caved in and said he could come over while I was ostensibly working. Even though I knew I'd have to take care of everything and not be able to do my work.Now, keep in mind, I've barely had the chance to use my new kitchen to cook much. I still haven't replaced all the stuff I threw out with better, last a lifetime cookware and utensils. But yesterday dad comes over and brings like a trail-drive's worth of stuff with him and proceeds to completely blitz my kitchen. It looked like Beirut if Beirut were made of flour and lard. It took me nearly an hour to clean up. There was dough everywhere. I finished making the cookies after he pooped out, and it was just... well, I could have killed someone with the rolling pin, just because it was the worst rolling pin in the history of ever. I told him to take it away and never bring it back.
And today he wants to finish by icing the cookies with this other ancient family recipe. Which would be okay except... it entails powdered sugar. OMG y'all, powdered confectioner's sugar in the hands of a dancing bear! Imagine the carnage. I haven't even used the new dining table and it's already a mess with molasses spills and sugar.
Anyway, this weekend I plan to do my own cooking by making my first ever Irish soda bread, as well as trying to make mac and cheese. I was looking at mac recipes online, and I am stymied. Almost all of them have... bread crumbs. What the hell? Bread crumbs? When did mac and cheese have bread in it? That is such an aberration to me, yet it seems as if many people expect it. It's that way in nearly every recipe book I have.
So what say you? Is it a regional thing? Is that what you expect? And what does that do to the cheesy gooeyness that makes good mac and cheese? I should do a poll but I don't have the time. Maybe in the next post.
