June Was a Wash!- Mid-July:)
To be honest, I didn't expect to get very far into my June Gourmet menu. I wrote out a menu that would have allowed me to make all the recipes in the June issue of Gourmet but as I was only going to be home 4 days the entire month, I didn't realistically expect to be able to make many of those menus. I was right, I didn't. In fact, while I traveled, I didn't make any of them. That's not to say I didn't cook at all on the trip. I made a few bowls of ramen noodles at the corporate apartment in New Jersey and actually cooked a couple of real meals at my parents in New Hampshire. None were from Gourmet, however. One thing I did notice was that this project has made me a more creative and adventuresome cook even without recipes. Even some salami sandwiches I made were jazzed up with a little homemade artichoke dip that I whipped together from stuff in my mom's cupboard. I did make a few recipes from the June issue of Gourmet in those few days before I left for ...