...friday wasn't so good. nothing big happened or went wrong, i'm just prophylactically exhausted from the weekend that hasn't even happened yet. oh well, that's what friday night is for. saturday morning is going to suck, but it's still more than 12 hours away.
i wish i had more time to cook, and more people to cook for. sometimes (often when i'm procrastinating), i get the urge to cook. sometimes it's cooking dinner-type recipes. often, when i'm stressing, it's baking. i'm not a particularly wonderful baker or anything, but i haven't really had the opportunity to try my hand at it, either. occasionally i'll make brownies, and i recently bought a muffin tin so now i can make cupcakes as well (all from mixes, but they're soooo good). but i'd really like to bake a multi-layer cake with icing and all sorts of fun decorations. or bread from scratch. or cream puffs or tons of cookies or any of a number of things. but who's going to eat it all? standard dinner recipes are for 4, and i'm from a big family so i'm used to cooking for 6 (but i've adjusted to 4), and with dinner that's ok because you'll eventually eat the leftovers. but no matter how long it takes you and your roommate to polish off a cake, you can't escape the fact that you've eaten half a cake all by yourself. so i wish i had more people to feed.
last night i was playing around on the internet while i was eating dinner and realized that this sunday is Chinese New Year - the beginning of theYear of the Dog. i wish i had realized this earlier, because i've been meaning to make a batch of dumplings, and this would have been the perfect excuse. but it's too late to invite people over at this point, plus i have no time to prepare. so maybe next weekend, and we'll just celebrate a week late. i'm thinking dumplings (guests can help make those so they're fun), steamed chinese veggies with oyster sauce, fried rice with chinese sausage or roast pork, and a whole steamed fish. yum! and then it occurred to me that i still don't own a wok, so that's next on my list of kitchen items to acquire. if my new year's feast goes on as planned, i'll probably do it sans wok, but maybe i'll get one in time. after some sleuthing, i've learned that carbon steel is best, and i learned how to cure it and dry it properly, and i discovered that they now make these wok rings for the stove to support the round bottom of the wok, which is nice, because a flat-bottomed wok is just a funny-looking pan, which is pointless. hopefully this next week i'll have time to get all this stuff and prep to have people over. but i'd really like to, because we have too nice of an apartment to not have people over, and now we finally have a couch so there are places for people to sit.
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I know what you mean about cooking for more people than are actually going to eat. Doing this South Beach thing - the recipes are for four - and we eat everything. Maybe I should really make a point of cutting all the recipes in half! The process of cooking can be very therapeutic - baking even more so because of the accompanying aromas. I am just consoling myself to making the best damn chicken and broccoli I can!
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