Two Many Chefs in the Kitchen

Let’s talk a little bit about cooking.  I am, and have always been, a terrible cook.  Seriously, I am not exaggerating.  It has always seemed a bit ironic to me, because I love food.  I read Martha Stewart and Bon Appetit like it is nobody’s business.  I even go so far as to dog-ear the pages with the recipes that I like, hoping that my mom will find them and make them.   Because let’s be honest here, I am not going to successfully whip up wild mushroom ravioli with a side of grilled asparagus. No siree, not this girl. 

So what?  What does this have to do with anything?  Well, a few weeks ago, I got to thinking about my future: a dangerous endeavor, let me tell you.  I saw myself as a fabulous twenty-something-year-old living in New York City.  I pictured myself coming home from work and whipping up some dinner in my swanky apartment. But…wait…oh no! I can’t cook!  And I only have a year left at home! OH MY GOD WHY AM I WASTING MY TIME SITTING AROUND DAYDREAMING?  I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO COOK. And who better to ask than my mother? I found my mom and frantically told her that I need to learn, stat.  She agreed to teach me, and my dad just kind of laughed to himself. 

So starting tonight, I will be spending my Sunday nights in the Susan Silverman Culinary Institute, aka the kitchen.  My mom is going to give me weekly cooking lessons, so you can all sleep soundly knowing that I WILL know how to cook by the time I am a twenty-something New Yorker.  Tonight we are making penne pasta with a tomato and goat cheese sauce (sorry, not our own artisinal goat cheese), served alongside roasted broccoli and a greens salad.  But if anybody reading this has some sublime recipe that you wish to share, post it in a comment! We have plenty of Sunday nights, and we are open to experimentation (just nothing to crazy).  So please tell us your favorite recipes, and we just might serve them up in the Silverman household this summer. But really, don’t take this sadistically and tell me to make ostrich foot or something like that.  That’s just mean.

So when you are all out shopping this summer for your groceries (or anything else, for that matter) be eco-friendly and don’t use the plastic bags that stores shell out by the billion.  Instead, bring your new tote bag and throw the goods in there.  It is big enough to carry anything you might want, and you are helping the earth along the way.  And to top it off, you are doing all of this in style. 

-Emma