{"id":572,"date":"2010-03-13T20:31:09","date_gmt":"2010-03-14T01:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-05-22T18:19:29","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T23:19:29","slug":"recipe-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/recipe-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Recipe work"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading this article<\/a> by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen<\/a>, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the last time was the turkey meatballs<\/a>, that were a merger of matzoh balls & meat balls, and then I put them in the broth for Ovens of Brittany<\/a> Turkey Almond Soup.<\/p>\n

I am feeling kind of tired and uninspired. Work has been just way too busy, and I don’t feel like doing much when I get home. The joy of the just-finished dinner series<\/a> has been more in creating menus, putting dishes together, than in developing recipes for the individual dishes.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s a case in point. I’m home alone, with Mark & Ethan off to Badger hockey, Al at O’Hare waiting for a flight to SF, John in Milwaukee, and the new foster kid at a friend’s. For early dinner with Mark & Ethan before the game, I made chicken bbq sandwiches, with meat I cooked in barbecue sauce yesterday, shredded and with a bit of added ketchup, honey, and salt. I made salad with John’s dressing – but that’s just the Good Seasons <\/a>mix, made with sesame oil, soy sauce, cidar vinegar, and brown sugar for an Asian flavor. I made some chex mix, to use up that giant Costco bag of nut & rice crackers munch mix<\/a> and some rice chips that fell off the top of the fridge so they were busted up just right, according to mom’s rules – no seasoned salt, fresh garlic and real butter, and I do put in the Worcestershire sauce even though she didn’t like it. I threw in some Wasabi peas, but I already tried that in a prior batch of chex mix – we liked it – so not that innovative. Old standbys, all.<\/p>\n

I could get my tax stuff together. I could make enchilada sauce or do some other cooking and photograph it. I could read and make notes for the literary awards committee I’m on. But I think I’m going to take a shower, and watch TV, and maybe have a scotch. I have this movie called A Slipping Down Life about a musician and his wigged out fans, and I think there’re a couple of Robyn Hitchcock songs in it.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading this article by Marcelle Richards of Gastroapocalypse Test Kitchen, on working up a recipe for parsnip-pink-peppercorn cake, inspired by carrot cake, made me realize that I haven’t been working on recipes much recently. I’ve been making little tweaks, but not putting a couple of patterns together to come up with something new. Maybe the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,47,41],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-robyn-hitchcock","tag-soup","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8783,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions\/8783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}