{"id":844,"date":"2009-12-26T08:59:38","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T08:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2009-12-26T08:59:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T08:59:38","slug":"xmas-cooking-gifts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marga.org\/foodblog\/2009\/12\/xmas-cooking-gifts\/","title":{"rendered":"Xmas Cooking Gifts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every year I put a bunch of cooking stuff in my Xmas list – and this year Santa (aka my friends\/family) have obliged.
\nMy friend Lola got me a copy of the Bouchon<\/a>\"\" cookbook – which I’ve wanted for a long time. I’ve never been to Bouchon<\/a> (one of the restaurants of acclaimed chef Thomas Keller<\/a>), but I’ve been to the The French Laundry<\/a>, albeit many years ago, and that was definitely the culinary experience of my lifetime. My friend Regina got me The French Laundry Cookbook<\/a>\"\" a few years ago, but the recipes there were impossible to make for the home chef. I didn’t even try.
\nI am looking forward to cooking from this book, though. At first glance, the recipes seem approachable; Bouchon is a bistro and thus it serves bistro food, which (to a limited extent) I know how to cook. The book, however, suffers from the disability of being *big* and *heavy*. According to Amazon, its dimensions are over 11″ x 11″ (closed) and it weights over 5lbs. It’s also beautiful, which may make me think twice before using it in the kitchen. But, I do have one of those multi-use printer\/fax\/scanner thingies, so I may just photocopy the recipe I want to use and leave the book on the coffee table \ud83d\ude42
\nI got three other culinary gifts.
\nMy brother got me a set of beautiful serving-size wooden bowls<\/b>. They are very pretty and serviceable – and I’m aghast that my brother actually has such good taste.
\nMy sister Kathy got me a Knife Sharpener<\/b> (Farberware Platinum), which I asked for because last year I got a couple of nice knives, which have not been sharpened since. Mike, meanwhile, got me a J.A. Henckels International Classic 10-Inch Sharpening Steel<\/a>\"\". As far as I can tell, a knife sharpener \/sharpens\/ knives, while a sharpening steel keeps them sharpened, so it’s useful to have both things. We’ll see how they work out.
\nAnd I think that’s it.
\nA good Xmas loot, all in all – now I have to clean my kitchen from Xmas Eve dinner\/Xmas breakfast so I can actually start using the stuff I got \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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