Mishaps

I realize that I haven't posted here in a while. Do forgive me. Between working on stuff for Get Trained at the Austin Stone and going on a diet for about eight days, my cooking has been quite boring. On the diet, it was salads, rice, beans, and more salads. Off the diet, let's just say we have been eating a lot of turkey sandwiches and frozen pizza at my house. I'm a flip flopper.

In the meantime, I have been absolutely dying to try and share some recipes and techniques from this little guy that Travis got me for Christmas:


I finally got the time and the energy to make some potatoes au gratin this weekend, and so I whipped out my favorite Le Creuset ceramic baking dish and my mandoline slicer and was having at it.

And then.

And then.

Julia told me to put my baking dish on the stove before putting it in the oven. But she didn't tell me that you aren't supposed to put ceramic baking dishes over direct heat or they snap in half. And mine definitely did. I couldn't bring myself to take a picture because it was so sad, but my favorite baking dish literally snapped and there was milk and cheese running all over my stove. It was a ghastly scene.

Julia, aren't you supposed to warn us idiot American housewives about these things? Isn't that why you are who you are, because you save us from our own ignorance? How can I trust you again?

Ok, over reaction. But I really liked that dish.

Luckily my birthday was Wednesday, and Travis not only replaced my baking dish but got me two others of smaller sizes. And I fully intend to use them this weekend for the good of this blog. It may be savory, it may be sweet, but it definitely won't be on the diet. Stay tuned.