Food & Thoughts

I lost my pasta making virginity on the last day of 2006. Yes, really. I've been claiming to be a foodie in league with the best of them, but it is only shy of three months ago I ventured into the land of pasta-making. Why no sooner? Surely, pasta is easy to make? Guess I just never saw the need, really. I love my De Cecco pasta. Of course, you don't get that with interesting stuffing, but I'm all about sauce anyways - preferably something creamy and clingy. So what's with the idea of making dough, leaving it to rest, roll it, thinner, thinner, and then just a little bit thinner again, and then spend ages making neat little packages out of them? Well - that - spending ages making little packages, is exactly the point of it all, if you ask me. The fact that I'm using my Kitchen Aid attachment - hereby sticking to one of my 2007 dares - makes this even better, and faster and easier, too. If you haven't already tried, do so. It's worth it (and you can still ...

I'm a snob. Wait, make that a snob and a half. When I was a kid, there was this one bully-type boy that used to tease me about always wearing Lacoste polo's - hey, it's not like I had a say in that and at least mine kept their color unlike his!:-P But really, I was often accused of being a snob when I was younger. One of the reasons probably stemmed from me not getting my glasses until I was 13. I would walk by people on the street, not recognising them, because I COULDN'T SEE THEM! Yes, I'm still a bit traumatised by it - there was more than one person getting pretty huffed about the fact that I obviuosly felt so superior I couldn't even say hello. In the end, before I got the glasses, it resulted in me waving hello to a lot of people I didn't even know, just because I thought I'd recognised someone and didn't want to be accused of being a no-hello'er again. The other thing that added to the title was one that I think a lot of teenagers are vic...

I learn so much from blogging. Like the word "procrastinate". I love that word. It's one of those words that lie really well in your mouth when you say it out loud. What I don't like about it is that it's not really a positive thing to do, you know? I just checked Wikipedia for the REAL explanation of the word - I wouldn't know how to translate it into Danish, but I certainly had the right vibe about it - and people, it ain't all rosy red. So let's set things straight - I'm not procrastinating because of the perfectionism-thing . I'm simply reading to many other blogs and am busy procrastinating with my studies to be able to do all these blog-post things. I digress (That's another word I've learned from blogging - see, blogging does make you wiser!) What I really wanted to do today, is tell you about this bread I made a couple of days ago. I've been trying out a couple of different potato-based loaves the last couple of months, an...