What's for supper tonight?

Couscous. Hmmm. Never had it. Come to think of it, I've never seen it on a shelf.

 

Its tiny tiny pasta that looks a lot like rice. I usually find it in the area with the regional foods. Sometimes it's around the rice, but that's usually in the same aisle anyway.

 

You're right, and also you can't be afraid to make a mistake. As long as you practice basic hygeine and refrigeration, you may burn some things or overcook or undercook, but at worst you're going to end up with a not-so-good meal. That happens, even now that I pretty much know what I'm doing. The last time I made meatballs (with sauce made from fresh local tomaters), they came out a bit dry. I'm still not entirely sure what I did wrong, because usually I make very good meatballs, but you have to understand that the dead cow I used this time is a different cow from the previous dead cows, so there is some variance in your ingredients each time. I think this cow had low body fat and that was the problem.

 

Each time I end up with a not-so-good meal, it's still a hundred times better than any meal I could get at Olive Garden. 8)

 

Thanks! That's awesome. I'll be trying it soon, perhaps this Sunday. I found a few recipes online, but they all had way too much fat in them. I'm only eating about 15 to 20 grams of fat per day.

 

Yes. I used a cow with low body fat once myself.

 

Ladies and gentlemen,

Tonight, I have prepared the finest meal I've ever eaten. Period.

The recipe, a pasta with shrimp in a sun-dried tomato cream sauce, has always been my specialty. But tonight, I nailed it. It was honestly the best meal I've ever eaten -- and I once spent a month eating AUTHENTIC Italian food.

Tonight, I adjusted the ingredients just a little: I cut down on the chicken stock and used some very good shrimp I brought back from the Gulf last month.

If I could present the meal in an eye-pleasing manner, I could make a freakin' killing.

 

I really want to go to culinary school to fine tune my cooking skills. Tonight, though, I think I'm going to have Subway.

 

spup, had I the money to attend, I'd be there NOW.

 

Canneloni

 

Me, too. I probably should have gone to Oklahoma State for their culinary program right out of high school, but I didn't, so I just cook at home. Maybe one day I'll get there.