so i watched julie and julia with my mom today. i loved the show. i loved everything about it. the streets of paris, antiqued and yellowed, quaint little bakeries and grocery shops. the pizzaria and the small little cozy apartment that julie lived in with her husband. and the food. goodness. the food. i was so full from lunch, and yet i felt like if i could reach into the screen and take the food, i would.
mostly i remember that mushrooms won't brown properly if you crowd them in a pan, meat won't brown if you don't dry it. nobody here except a servantless american cook. and we will all eventually learn how to debone a duck.
i was quite puzzled that the julia child in 2002 did not appreciate julie's adventure cook-through her recipes. my mom just brushed it off as being a grumpy old woman who doesn't know what she's talking about. and it probably is. but i could understand, that something that she worked 8 years for is something that she would have thought so important, anyone else doing anything about it would be 'disrespectful'. but then again, she did want people to actually use the recipes no?
i loved meryl streep and her rich jovious voice in the show. she makes me want to eat raw oyster. and i don't even like the smell of the lemon from the plate of the raw oyster. she sounds utterly delicious.
and amy adams is so cute. i wonder how someone can cook so much yummy food everyday and yet still stay so slim. she looks great in that white dress at the end.
and you know what? the biggest similarity that these 2 woman had, was that they had loving, caring, supportive, and really, the ultimate 'saint' husbands. men who would carry them through all hardships and remind them of who they truly were.
i really want the cookbook! i am gonna get it one way or another. although its awfully expensive for a cookbook. WHO HAS BORDERS OR KINOKUNIYA discount card? i need to borrow please! (:
the exact one that julie has, is the volume 1 here:
and here's volume 2:
plus (this is random) but i need a muffin tray:
i know it probably won't be the same cooking here. in sigh. singapore. instead of artisticly decorated bakeries and grocer's i get prob at best, thomson plaza's ntuc finest. and the lovely red pot that she uses to cook, well, i have whatever pots my mom gets from accumulative ntuc points. but i'm hoping, really hoping, that whatever i cook from it, will taste good.
i've tried some dishes and so far, my chocolate deserts taste decent, my cream mushroom spaghetti, beef and pork bolognaise is fine. potato rossi was good too. and vegetable/beef lasagne was ok. i'm guessing the shepherd's pie was good too since my sister finished it all the last time i made it. my signature choc swirl cheesecake. well, it has never failed me! and i'm gonna try french cooking! any volunteer guinea pigs?
snll drifted away at 2:12 AM
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