Thursday, May 22, 2008

COOKED: Blueberry Honey Parfait Or Would The Naked Chef Be An Accurate Name?

Whoa! It's been a while, but never fear. I'm back... finally! Now I have the whole summer to do (mostly) whatever I'd like. Regardless of what I will be doing in the future, I cooked this dessert (which just happened to replace my dinner). I don't know what inspired me. I think I wanted to prove that if I plopped myself down in the kitchen--a good way to avoid writing important papers--I could cook something sweet and dessert-like, sans the refined white sugar and flour of most desserts. (Like the fool I am, I'm still "eating well", which, for me, is basically not eating processed foods or foods that are wheat/gluten based.) Mission accomplished. WAY easy.

I'm starting to wonder if I should include recipes on this blog, some sort of addition to my blather. I'd suggest taking a vote, but as I enjoy doing what I want, STICKING IT TO THE MAN, I don't think that process will hold any merit. So we'll see what happens. But I will say it is hard for me to write recipes, because most of what I cook isn't from recipes, so I...have to think. Usually recipes aren't needed in my meals (hence the title of the post, I'm recipe-less), as nothing I cook is very fancy, and I rarely bake, which would (logically) need recipes with correct amounts of ingredients, to allow rising or whatever the thing I'm so totally not baking needs to do to... not taste like a burned puddle. YEAH!

Here's my parfait! It's all eggy. I first cooked a quasi-custard--no recipe, just eye-balled ratios/fractions/mathematical portions--beat the egg whites separately, then folded my concoction together. The blueberry sauce included frozen blueberries, honey, orange zest and rosewater (saw it in the cupboard. Eyes turned shiny. Used it.). I toasted oats and sprinkled them on top. Aaaand there's my recipe for the day!


Chow, Lucia

2 comments:

bhags said...

Hi lucia,
flew here jlt....but really the blog has impressed me a lot...real cool stuff you have got here and i love the pics....

btw I am also a minneapolitan and also ur school mate

Roz said...

Well, DANG. Fancy! Were there any leftovers?