On Vox: preparing things

I started cooking in 1997 or so, when I got an apartment in college on-campus housing. I learned to make very few things, but I got really into baking. I'm still most comfortable with baking, but I've started to break out of that a bit.

A few months ago I ordered an old-timey Dutch Oven off eBay. It's a Wagner Ware Magnalite 4qt, and I've mostly used it to make the most wonderful mouth-watering stews that simmer all day at low temperature. Beef falls apart without even turning brown.

This weekend I made my first ever omelette. I tend to suck at making scrambled eggs, which is all Reg ever eats, so while he slept I experimented. It wasn't so hard except that I couldn't really flip it properly, and by the time I realized this it got a little brown. Although I preferred that in my youth, I've become accustomed to wetter eggs. (My mother believed in well-done EVERYTHING.) Reg and I don't even like eggs that much but scrambled eggs fried in butter or bacon fat kind of do it for me.

my first omelette

And today I bought a small kitchen scale, since most of the more professional recipes use weight measure rather than volume. I will attempt to use it for this weekend's bread.

Originally posted on herbaliser.vox.com