Another Side of Me
Posted by momto6 on 21 March 2007
Okay, blogging about this is going to keep me from blogging about the latest White House scandal. This is probably a good thing at the moment.
I always have the television on quietly in the background as I work. I work from home and the computer and the television are in the same room. The background noise just helps me to concentrate a bit, I guess.
Today, I was listening to my normal fare - local morning news program on a CBS affiliate, The Early Show, Dr. Phil (I have to be sure I am not doing phone calls during this as it makes me laugh a lot of the time), Rachael Ray. I am stopping there as something on the Rachael Ray show peaked my interest. I am a devoted fan of her Food Network shows and also of her 30 minute meal cookbooks.
Today I heard that Rachael is running a 10 ingredient contest. You have to come up with a dish or a menu that uses the following ten ingredients: beef, rosemary, green beans, bacon, mushrooms, puff pastry, blueberrys, ricotta cheese,dried apricots and mint.
I immediately went to RachaelRay.com to see the rules. I thought - yum - beef with rosemary, green beans cooked in bacon renderings with mushrooms and bacon, puff pastry with blueberrys, ricotta cheese,dried apricots and mint. Then, I thought - yum - a chutney from the blueberries, apricots and mint, the beef and bacon braised with rosemary, and the green beans and mushrooms inside the puff pastry. I would just need to figure out where to use the ricotta in this menu.
Anyway, the gist of this all is I think I may enter a cooking contest. Definitely a side of me you didn’t see coming, right?
