Reply To: JoCo Cruise Crazy 3: Get excited and talk about things!
My pal Paul and I used to do “stunt cooking” one night a week when we lived in the same town. We’d find a dish we hadn’t tried before, acquire the ingredients, and spend the evening cooking, dining (typically feeding his then-wife at the same time), and, ultimately, cleaning up.
One day, we decided to take on a savory beef-filled crepe recipe Paul had found. The recipe didn’t specify how to make the crepes, so Paul found a crepe recipe in one of his other cookbooks, which we made. Everything turned out astonishingly tasty. We were very pleased with ourselves after dinner, until I turned to look at the kitchen, and every single surface, vertical and horizontal, required cleaning. Also, virtually every cooking utensil I owned was dirty.
“Paul, how the hell did THAT happen?” “Um…”
And then I saw it: the cover of the cookbook the crepe recipe had come from. It was a Julia Childs cookbook. Suddenly, the mess had an explanation.
We still had to clean it up, but at least we knew the reason why it happened.