10.20.08
Dinner Club, Part 1
My [just-out-of-college] friends and I have decided that in order to mitigate our collective failure to cook anything other than freezer food and pasta when we’re cooking only for ourselves, we will take turns hosting Monday night dinners for the whole gang.
Tonight was the first night of the Dinner Club, and I cooked. Now, I have a copy of the joy of cooking and everything, but it seems to be targeted at a different audience. I mean, it seems to assume that I know what kind of dishes exist and just need to know how much x to stir in with the y. This is not a great assumption, especially since I’m new to cooking on a regular basis.
As usual, the internet came through for me. After browsing Elise Bauer’s Simply Recipes for a few minutes, I had easy recipes for guacamole and cheese enchiladas, and Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen popped this wonderful (but slightly more challenging) pumpkin swirl brownies recipe into my RSS reader yesterday.
Anyway, the cooking was fun and everything went over very well. Thanks internet!
Now I just need to learn to cook without completely wrecking the kitchen - it took me about an hour to clean everything up after my guests left, which was a little bit fail.
