Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Cooking

In recent months I've started cooking more and more.
I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that I no longer have my mother to cook for me anymore and if I want to eat something other than frozen food or PBJ's, I have to make it myself.
At home I cooked a lot of vegetables but not much meat or fish; I left that to the mother. At my current abode, I've been trying to remedy that.
And I've been enjoying it. A lot.
Over the past week I've made:
-chicken marinated in rosemary and lemon juice
-acorn squash stuffed with raisins, apples and pecans
-grilled chicken in a peanut sesame sauce
-warm rice salad
-roasted carrots in balsamic vinegar
-spaghetti in a homemade meat sauce with ground turkey, sauteed aromatics, mushrooms and fresh thyme and basil

I am still finding my feet and experimenting, but damn, it's a tasty ride.