Cooking

First of all, I am sucking at this 365 photo thing. It just hasn't caught on with me... oh well. Maybe when I have something to take pictures of.

Anyway, my new project is going to be cooking. I had relatives come over today- really Italian relatives, which I absolutely love, btw- and the food was so good. I mean, fabulous cooking all around. So I realized that pretty much everyone in my family can cook but me. I mean, everyone makes their own sauce, and fancy soups, and I even have an aunt who makes her own gnoccis from scratch. She actually made all the food for my grad party, which was absolutely fabulous.

So I realized I have all these fabulous resources around me, so I should have them teach me how to cook. I want to know how to make something awesome, instead of just scrambled eggs and ramen (and I'm not even that good at the scrambled eggs lol. Ramen on the other hand... I am the master of Ramen. A ramen noodle connoisseur of sorts :)). And I really want to learn how to make things from scratch, because that concept fascinating and admittedly very foriegn to me.

So, I've made a list of the things I want to learn how to cook and the people who can teach me how. Here goes:

1. Pasta sauce (any number of relatives could teach me this)
2. 3 types of cookies, from scratch (Gramma, and others.)
3. Pasta primavera like my dad makes.
4. A good omelet, or fritata I think my dad calls it. There may be some kind of technical difference here...
5. Perfect the pancakes and french toast.
6. Cake. (Aunt Liz)
7. A superb sub (Dominic, who by the way has a shop called 'A Taste of Italy' in Victor where you can go and get a wonderful sub and other great Italian stuff, including Marticello's bread, which is possibly the best stand alone food on earth.)
8. Gnoccis and all the other stuff Aunt Ducky makes.

Okay, so this is my mission for the next couple months...