Julie & Julia: The Movie

I watched Julie&Julia again over the last 2 nights. I had to watch it over 2 nights because I started watching too late on the first night, and fell asleep part way through. I feel like I have watched the movie on an entirely new perspective, now that I'm doing my own cook/blog thing. 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' seems like a challenging recipe book. Julie Powell probably didn't have enough breakdowns while attempting to cook her way through it. I'm sure everything in it tastes divine, but each recipe has about 20 different ingredients, and takes more than 2 hours to prep and cook. Julia Child said her cook book was 'For the servantless American cook.' It was all good and well then for cooks to spend a couple hours each day preparing lavish dinners for their families, because back then the cook/wife did not tend to be employed outside of her household. Times have changed however, the modern cook tends to already have a full time job to contend with. And this brings us back to Nigella Lawson. She really is the solution for the modern day cook. Her recipes are simple and delicious. But what I like best about them is that I have most of the ingredients at home already. In her book 'Kitchen' which I'm cooking my way through at the moment, there is even a second index at the back which lists all the recipes that take 30 minutes or under to prep and cook. How ingenious is that?! 

In conclusion

I'm grateful Nigella exists.

I'm thankful that I have Nigella as a home cook to idolise, rather than Julia Child. I'm sure Julia was a wonderful woman, but her strenuous recipes are at a level of difficulty that I don't want deal with after 8 hours of work.

I'm appreciative I have the opportunity to do this. I really do enjoy cooking, discovering new recipes and testing out my writing skills with this whole blog venture.

Dinner tonight? KFC.... *sad face*. It wasn't supposed to be, I intended on cooking some Beef Sirloin Steaks. But my fiance talked me into takeaways. Not that it took much, I do love me some K-Fry every now and again. 

Next on the to-do-recipe-list?  Cheesy Chili.   

Stay tuned,

Kate-o.