Not even close. Not even somewhere in-between. I have no desire to make every recipe in Julia’s book – “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” - http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/authors/child/making.html
No de-boning a duck for me. I don’t like duck. The only good duck(s) are the ones I can keep in a straight line and lately there seems to be only bad ducks. And, I don’t care for lobster so I don’t have to worry about hearing its’ squeal as it’s plunged into boiling water. I found this site: http://juliachildrecipes.tumblr.com/ and there are a couple of recipes that have interested me...her “Boeuf Bourguignon” and “Mashed Potatoes”. Did you know meat (as in steaks, chops, etc) won’t brown (properly) unless they are dry of any moisture?
I’m not Julie Powell (who blogged her way into a book which became the movie “Julia/Julie”) either. Her tenacity to make all the recipes and blog about it every day for a year isn’t in my genes. I consider myself on a roll if I post on this blog 3 days in a row! But I can identify with her when she posted “Hello? Anybody out there? Does anyone read this? Hello??” I found her last post on her blog the day after Julia Child died -
http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/
I’m not sure what but watching Julie/Julia had an effect on me. In the meantime, while I’m figuring out what the effect is, Tim wants me to fix all the recipes in this book:
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