Yes, yes, Julie & Julia all over again...but this time it starts in my kitchen with my best friend; who if you ever saw the two of us in a kitchen cooking together, you would be scared already.
Sure the movie definately inspired our idea to work through an entire cookbook together this summer, but even more so did our experience making sushi together last summer.
After picking up Sushi for Dummies and An Idiot's Guide to Making Sushi we thought we were set...
Yeah right. I will never again take for granted wonderfully made sushi at places like Wasabi and Kenko. Never.
My best friend Chloe likes to take short-cuts...(she was really hungry at this point of washing rice, two hours into the process)..
Sushi for Dummies as read by me: "Let rice cool down completely"
Chloe: "I have an idea...let's just stick it in the freezer for a bit!"
Sushi for Dummies as read by me: "Note: Never EVER refrigerate the sushi"
And the last hour of making sushi (completing 3 hours in the kitchen) consisted of repeating that scenario with every step of the recipe.
And so what better of an idea then to teach ourselves how to become proper cooks (we may just end up being better wives someday in the process!) by working our way through a cookbook. However, since we also added working out at the gym on our summer list of things to do, we decided not to counter-act our efforts by purchasing "Cook Yourself Thin Faster: Have Your Cake and Eat It Too" for our recipes.
So here's to the begining of an early summer and learning how to cook, regardless if we ever become as good as Julia Child, or even Julie Powell.
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