Me, The Blog, And The Very Bad Episode

I've heard it been said that April showers bring May blah blah blah that's really nice and normally I really do love when it rains, but I've been trapped in my apt. for several days with a newborn (is 3 months still considered newborn?) while the rain clouds that have taken over the skies spit water over NYC, preventing us from having our daily outing and I am starting to go berserk. I know you're thinking "well Deb, since you've only been leaving the apt. to go to work you must have been cooking up loads of delectable treats during your days inside" and to that, I hang my head in shame as I tell you no, no Dear Reader, I have not cooked a thing, we've been surviving on leftovers from the freezer and take away.

We're now out of the bread, the soup, and the meals that I made a while back and froze, we're running low on tasty baked goodies, and the fresh supply of fruits and vegetables we had at the beginning of the week are now just a distant memory. I've been itching to get in the kitchen to cook; I just can't seem to get myself into some sort of working routine where I can fit everything in. I feel like a large pie whose slices are divided into caring for the wee lass, being a wife, keeping the apt. somewhat clean, keeping the house somewhat clean, (forget about a self cleaning oven, I need a self cleaning lifestyle) being a good employee, being a good daughter, a loving granddaughter, a supportive sister, an understanding daughter-in-law, a caring friend, AND somewhere in there trying to maintain a sense of myself and MY interests. How do people do it? I feel like I NEVER have any spare time for anything, let alone the website, which by the way I love, and have no plans of giving up.

So, I have this backlog of things I want to "blog" about, like the Indian food I cooked almost 2 weeks ago, two dishes, very different in cooking method and in taste and yet quite tasty eaten together. The sweet as candy bag of naval oranges I practically ate in one sitting (is it me or are the naval oranges really good this year?). The fabulous and I mean really fabulous tins of imported tuna in olive oil from Sicily that my supermarket is currently selling for cheap, cheap, cheap. The preserved bean curd that we've taken to eating chunks of over rice and as a tasty little flavor addition to our main meal. The glutinous rice flour that sat in my fridge for months waiting for me to make sweet red bean paste sesame balls with, and that I finally used a bit of to make some crepes. The entertaining James Beard cookbook on pasta that I'm reading. There’s all those children’s books on food and cooking I wanted to write about, the food movies I've been watching, (or rather am going to watch at some point), and the store bought bag of frozen cabbage, leek and black mushroom dumplings that gave me the worst case of food poisoning I've had in years. I'm talking about an episode so bad I wanted to crawl out of my skin and die, it was so bad that I wanted to strip my clothes off and lay on the cool bathroom tiles and weep... But there's just no time, there's no time for any of that because now, with what little free time I have, I’ll be devoting to the preparation and execution of my cake entry for the next Is My Blog Burning? event.

I guess all I’m trying to say is I'm pretty sure things will work themselves out shortly, and I'll resume cooking and writing about the cooking soon, in the meantime thanks for sticking it out with me and continuing to come by and read my blog. Now go on with your bad selves and come back in a couple of days.

Written by Deb on April 15, 2004 03:47 AM