Adventures in cooking, cont.

Ok, I’m considering changing the title and theme of my blog to “Adventures in cooking whatever the hell you want for yourself in your apartment kitchen” – too long?

I feel like this is what I am compelled to write about these days – and I could probably post almost every day. And it might be more interesting to a wider range of people than my usual random musings about life as a 20-something searching for something of substance in her life. (Enter U2 lyrics here – “I still haven’t found what I’m looking for…”)

Yesterday I could have posted something about how I wasn’t very excited about cooking pasta with zucchini and tomato sauce until I walked away as the sauce simmered and realized that it had perfumed my entire apartment with basil and garlic. I also learned from this experiment that you should avoid cooking things that require long-simmering during midday in a small space. This leads to a sweaty mess. But alas, class is at night, so cooking comes in the day.

Today, for lunch: orange rosemary scone with cherry jam and habanero cheddar slices – yum! (This is the cook-whatever-you-want portion of the show – I know that some people would not appreciate this meal.)

These scones though, even if you don’t like scones, have the most heavenly, sweet, rosemary-y scent to them. They are fresh and comforting, biscuit-like, and don’t require cutting butter into flour. They did need a pinch more salt in the batter however, thus the cheese slices to accommodate for this misstep. I left out the pistachios the recipe called for since I didn’t have any, but I think dried cranberries might be nice come November.

So, the down side of this story: I now have enough pasta for at least a week’s worth of lunches and enough scones for breakfast for 2 weeks –eek, I’m running out of reasons to cook! Then what am I going to do with my spare time? I suppose I need to start learning to cook smaller portions of food. And I feel like the scones will freeze well.

If you feel like dropping by for dinner sometime soon, I feel like making risotto…