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Sep. 6th, 2015 10:19 amThe parentals are leaving on Tuesday for a two-week trip to Oaxaca, which leaves me with two weeks on my own. I am, essentially, treating it as a staycation - I'm going to work (except for a couple days I took off), but my time off work belongs to no one but me. Which, among other things, means it's time to cook a) all my favorite things and b) things I've wanted to try but don't want to try around other people in case they are terrible and I have to order pizza.
Part of the experimental cooking is going to involve chicken soup. I have long told people that I dislike soup, but recently I've discovered that I do like pho and that clam chowder is at least edible. So, possibly, I just dislike all the soups my parents have ever made. (They make a lot of tomato-based soups, to be fair, and tomatoes are a definite no-go for me.) And soup is one of those things that I want to like*, because it really would be nice when it's cold to be able to make and enjoy a pot of soup. It is a winter thing that I've always felt a little left out of. (Generally, I try to make do with oatmeal, but it doesn't quite seem the same.) So I'm going to find a soup that I like and can make, and then I will make it all winter. I am starting with this recipe, which contains nothing I don't like, so I have high hopes for it.
I am also going to make chocolate cobbler, but I feel like there's much less chance that I won't like that.
*Also on the list of things I don't like but wish I did: bananas, strawberries, hardboiled eggs. Strawberries smell good and eggs and bananas would be so convenient! So every once in a while, I try them again and discover that nope, I still hate them. (Life would also be easier if I liked potatoes, but potatoes are horrible so I don't wish that I did and I am not interested in giving them any more chances.)
Part of the experimental cooking is going to involve chicken soup. I have long told people that I dislike soup, but recently I've discovered that I do like pho and that clam chowder is at least edible. So, possibly, I just dislike all the soups my parents have ever made. (They make a lot of tomato-based soups, to be fair, and tomatoes are a definite no-go for me.) And soup is one of those things that I want to like*, because it really would be nice when it's cold to be able to make and enjoy a pot of soup. It is a winter thing that I've always felt a little left out of. (Generally, I try to make do with oatmeal, but it doesn't quite seem the same.) So I'm going to find a soup that I like and can make, and then I will make it all winter. I am starting with this recipe, which contains nothing I don't like, so I have high hopes for it.
I am also going to make chocolate cobbler, but I feel like there's much less chance that I won't like that.
*Also on the list of things I don't like but wish I did: bananas, strawberries, hardboiled eggs. Strawberries smell good and eggs and bananas would be so convenient! So every once in a while, I try them again and discover that nope, I still hate them. (Life would also be easier if I liked potatoes, but potatoes are horrible so I don't wish that I did and I am not interested in giving them any more chances.)
