Role Reversal
Isn't that the cutest little globe you ever did see? (Muir Glen tomato can standing there for size comparison.) I found it this morning at the Brooklyn Flea and have decided it is already my most favorite possession. I might snuggle with it tonight, in bed. Little globe! I think I love you.
Okay! Moving on. As I type, a chicken is marinating in spiced yogurt in the fridge. It will be our dinner tonight and I have high hopes for it. Let's all hope there is good news to report tomorrow. In the meantime, however, I have to tell you about an idea I had earlier, when I was sorting through some more recipe print-outs (unfiled! loose-leaf! gah!) and was suddenly overcome with a desire to Purge! Purge! Purge! Because, honestly, people, sometimes the recipe collecting feels a bit out of hand. I had a hard little talk with myself (sotto voce, natch) and then plucked out a nice wee stack of recipes I know that I will never - in my heart of hearts - make. Ever. I marched them out to the recycling bin, dropped them down with a satisfying thwap, and felt all clean and good for a few minutes.
Um. And then. I felt sort of bad! (I clearly need to get out more.)
So I had an idea: What if I told you folks what those abandoned, discarded recipes are and if any of you are enterprising folks or just have different taste than me, you send me an email or leave me a comment telling me which recipe you'd like to make, and then I send that recipe over to you and you make it and tell me/us all about it? Doesn't that sound like fun? Or am I totally losing my mind?
I don't mean to be entirely pathetic, but I actually went back to the recycling bin and pulled the recipes out. They're sitting here now, looking up at me dolefully and I'm feeling sort of foolish. So for that reason alone, don't let me lose face, intrepid readers and cooks! Maybe there's one in here for you right now! Let's play.
1. Pommes Dauphine taken!
2. Duck Rillettes taken!
3. Salad of Yellowfin Tuna Confit with Cannellini Beans taken!
4. Golden Apple Triangles taken!
5. Pumpkin Pots de Creme with Amaretti-Ginger Crunch taken!
6. Caramel Coulant - taken!
7. Pumpkin Panna Cotta - taken!
8. Overnight Coffee Cake (with variations!) taken!
Ooh pommes dauphines for me please!
Posted by: w. | May 11, 2008 at 07:12 PM
... I'd love to try that coffee cake...
Posted by: Sara | May 11, 2008 at 07:50 PM
yellowfin tuna w/ cannellini beans? i'd love to try it! 8)
Posted by: sarah | May 11, 2008 at 08:42 PM
I'd like to try the caramel coulant, if you please.
Posted by: Moriah | May 11, 2008 at 09:07 PM
How can I resist Pumpkin Panna Cotta, and the chance to save it from the bin of fallen recipe dreams?
Posted by: Cate | May 11, 2008 at 09:41 PM
Something about the golden apple triangles is calling my name...
Posted by: Bonnie | May 11, 2008 at 09:56 PM
I'm up for trying duck rillettes if nobody's called them yet!
Posted by: Lynn | May 11, 2008 at 10:06 PM
not that i don't like the idea of pumpkin pots de creme... but can we get MORE recipes? I love this idea!!
Posted by: amy | May 12, 2008 at 12:12 AM
I'm finally de-lurking to say I'd love to try the pumpkin pots de creme!
Posted by: Christine | May 12, 2008 at 12:24 AM
this is a great idea. It looks like all the recipes are taken but if this works out well you should do it again. I hope everyone post photos as well as a review.
thanks
Posted by: Emily Weaver Brown | May 12, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Hooray, everybody! This is going to be fun.
Amy and Emily - fantastic! I wasn't sure if people would want to play along, but I guess I was wrong. Let's see how this first batch goes, but God knows I have a lot of recipes to go around. :)
Posted by: Luisa | May 12, 2008 at 05:58 AM
This is such a fun idea! Count me in next time.
Posted by: deb | May 12, 2008 at 10:36 AM
this is what happens when I have to work on the weekend: I miss out on all the fun. count me in next time. or maybe I should try this myself. I have a good 100+ recipes in an electronic file that I seriously need to sort through/purge. but the purging (even when I truly know I'll never make the thing) is so gosh darn hard. glad to know there's someone else out there who feels the same way.
Posted by: jenny | May 12, 2008 at 12:45 PM
I love that little globe to... I am going to have to go to Brooklyn Flea and try to find me one now :)
Posted by: stinkerbell | May 12, 2008 at 05:59 PM
Oh la la! too many recipes. Pumpkin creme de pots with amaretti ging ercrunch sounds both delicious and elegant,
caramel coulant also sounds wonderful, and the golden apple pouch sounds so homey. All so good!
Posted by: Mireille | May 13, 2008 at 01:18 PM
My mother has a globe just like your snuggle partner. She has used it for years and years to reference geographically stories on the news etc. It still sits right by the T.V. but it is horrendously out of date. It was the best--where do I want to go in the world--globe because it spun so fast and was so delightfully colorful. My brothers and I would close our eyes and make a one fingered jab to stop the globe and find where our destination would be. Thanks for bringing back the memories...and I must say the recipe share may very well be a grand venture.
Happy Spring...sending you sunshine and birds full of song.
Posted by: dancing kitchen | May 15, 2008 at 12:59 AM
What a great idea! I have a breadbox full to bursting with found recipes that need sharing or sorting. Thanks to my new system of emailing them to my phone I always have the recipes needed at hand. No more printing them out and they are always with me. (Super handy for deciding what to cook while staring at piles of vegetables in the grocery.)
Posted by: eviedee | May 16, 2008 at 08:24 PM
Fabulous idea! I'm only sorry I was too late to claim a recipe. I hope you'll do this again. How fun to be a test cook/guest blogger!
Posted by: Meredith | May 19, 2008 at 06:31 PM