Great read featuring great looking food! :) when I read the seventh Harry Potter I only ate scrambled eggs on toast for like a week because that’s what they do on the run.
why do I not remember that part of the book? scrambled eggs feel like a very non-wizardy food. like y'all are drinking MAGIC PUMPKIN JUICE in book 1 and by book 7 you're downgraded to scrambled eggs on toast? no hate to eggs.
When you said "I tried my little American best" that hit :+) ok so my mom read me this short story when I was younger (i'm completely blanking on the name but I will ask her and text you when I get it because you would love it) and its about this man who challenges this other wealthy guy (also not sure when it takes place but i think it's like mid 20th century) to an escargot eating competition. It sounds lowkey gross but I promise it is so wonderful. I love the descriptions of how the escargots are cooked, and how they are eaten in this story (paired with all sorts of other sides/breads/garnishes) and I would always fanaticize about that meal and literally eating 25+ snails. I ate escargot cooked in butter and pesto in Paris and it still haunts me to this day :')
YUM!! i've never had escargot but I think I would really like it bc i like oysters and most other raw seafood. also half the fun of eating oysters is the whole ritual of putting vinegar and sauce and stuff on it, and all the tiny forks too. i imagine escargot is like the texture of octopus maybe? like more rough and chewy? i bet i could find a place here that does it but i wanna have the real experience of eating them in paris for the first time too
I HATE carrots but those look incredible and I feel like I would like them! When I was in the fifth grade, my class read a book called Journey to America, about a family escaping nazi Germany and for the entire month we were reading it, I was the epitome of a mannerly child. That book shook 10-year-old me to my core and I wanted to show my parents that I was grateful for not having to escape my home and move overseas. Then we wrapped up the book and I was back to my ol’ bratty self :’)
i am a BIG carrot girl (new zoom name?!) and am convinced i could probably cook a carrot recipe that you would like. my mom boiled carrots when we were little and i liked them, but there is nothing like a roasted carrot that's crispy on the outside soft on the inside. like a FRENCH FRY! and i've never read that book before, but there was this book series about dolls (lol) based on historical characters that i read and one of the books had to do with escaping to america and it had me SHOOK too
Chose my career path at 17 because I thought it was “what Lily Bart would do.” Not the venue for Edith Wharton spoilers, but maybe not the best character to “take advice” from?
omg thank you for this rec, i think i'm going to order the book!! I would love to own an actual tagine one day, i've romanticized going to morocco and getting one so much that I think eventually I'm just going to have to do it.
Great read featuring great looking food! :) when I read the seventh Harry Potter I only ate scrambled eggs on toast for like a week because that’s what they do on the run.
why do I not remember that part of the book? scrambled eggs feel like a very non-wizardy food. like y'all are drinking MAGIC PUMPKIN JUICE in book 1 and by book 7 you're downgraded to scrambled eggs on toast? no hate to eggs.
When you said "I tried my little American best" that hit :+) ok so my mom read me this short story when I was younger (i'm completely blanking on the name but I will ask her and text you when I get it because you would love it) and its about this man who challenges this other wealthy guy (also not sure when it takes place but i think it's like mid 20th century) to an escargot eating competition. It sounds lowkey gross but I promise it is so wonderful. I love the descriptions of how the escargots are cooked, and how they are eaten in this story (paired with all sorts of other sides/breads/garnishes) and I would always fanaticize about that meal and literally eating 25+ snails. I ate escargot cooked in butter and pesto in Paris and it still haunts me to this day :')
YUM!! i've never had escargot but I think I would really like it bc i like oysters and most other raw seafood. also half the fun of eating oysters is the whole ritual of putting vinegar and sauce and stuff on it, and all the tiny forks too. i imagine escargot is like the texture of octopus maybe? like more rough and chewy? i bet i could find a place here that does it but i wanna have the real experience of eating them in paris for the first time too
I HATE carrots but those look incredible and I feel like I would like them! When I was in the fifth grade, my class read a book called Journey to America, about a family escaping nazi Germany and for the entire month we were reading it, I was the epitome of a mannerly child. That book shook 10-year-old me to my core and I wanted to show my parents that I was grateful for not having to escape my home and move overseas. Then we wrapped up the book and I was back to my ol’ bratty self :’)
i am a BIG carrot girl (new zoom name?!) and am convinced i could probably cook a carrot recipe that you would like. my mom boiled carrots when we were little and i liked them, but there is nothing like a roasted carrot that's crispy on the outside soft on the inside. like a FRENCH FRY! and i've never read that book before, but there was this book series about dolls (lol) based on historical characters that i read and one of the books had to do with escaping to america and it had me SHOOK too
Recommend this book for more tagines. Also recommend buying an actual tagine, but the terra-cotta kind, not the glazed ones. https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/tagine_ghillie-basan/283440/item/5177543/?mkwid=%7cdm&pcrid=450752293814&pkw=&pmt=&slid=&plc=&pgrid=103760965894&ptaid=pla-929103043080&gclid=CjwKCAiAg8OBBhA8EiwAlKw3kum2khERJB2bROSXJSX7i-Bmp2mnHJuy_PmZMCLds0AuuxUAWEKGLhoCOQcQAvD_BwE#idiq=5177543&edition=5733835
Chose my career path at 17 because I thought it was “what Lily Bart would do.” Not the venue for Edith Wharton spoilers, but maybe not the best character to “take advice” from?
omg thank you for this rec, i think i'm going to order the book!! I would love to own an actual tagine one day, i've romanticized going to morocco and getting one so much that I think eventually I'm just going to have to do it.