Comments on shh, don't wake the DRUNKEN HOUSEWIFE: our Thanksgiving

Being a chef doesn't really count, but love of...

2011-11-28T15:23:01.370-08:00

Being a chef doesn't really count, but love of cooking should be a criteria... I seem to be back in cooking mode these days, although it's limited to endless recipes for pie. You've clearly paid your dues. You lost 30 pounds???? You star, you!

It's not fair that you, AN ACTUAL CHEF and a p...

2011-11-28T09:40:11.568-08:00

It's not fair that you, AN ACTUAL CHEF and a person who writes books with chef characters and food in them, doesn't have a fabulous range. I feel like i deserve this Aga because I suffered so long with that heinous, horrendous piece-of-crap Magic Chef, not to mention all the earlier part of my life where I had crappy ELECTRIC STOVES with weak, nasty, inadequate little electric burners. And, unlike most people in SF who have big ol' ranges with 6+ burners, we actually use the capabilities of our Aga regularly.

I only wish everyone who deserved a great range had one. Somehow we should be able to appropriate them from all those houses where they've put in giant double oven, 6 + burner ranges during remodeling but no one knows how to cook.

I have never understood why people didn't make...

2011-11-26T17:21:05.408-08:00

I have never understood why people didn't make their own cranberry sauce. It's so easy. I cringe in horror when my MIL serves that canned shit.

You know that I have the worst "AGA" envy (although my cooktop and ovens are certainly adequate). But what you cook DOES make a difference!