I love Ina Garten. Not only for the elegant, delicious and unpretentious food, but also for her soothing motherly voice. I can just hear her saying "Mmm... Doesn't that look good?" in my head when making a dish of hers when everything just comes together beautifully. Since Chris has been working hard on his paper, I've decided to make something extra special for the Sunday breakfast. Also the fact I finally got the right dish from Crate and Barrel helps :P So here it is, Herbed-baked eggs! The yokes are creamy and gooey, perfect for dipping toasted sliced baguette. The flavor of all the herbs, cream, butter and Parmesan cheese melted together to create this heavenly aroma that fills the entire house. Not sure if my amateur description does the justice of this fabulous dish but I can tell you we both loved it for sure :) See recipe here.---- Below is my snooty rant about something stupid, skip if you feel judgemental ----
A funny story of me buying the gratin dishes at Crate and Barrel. Yes, that's what I got at Perimeter last weekend part of my justification of going to the mall. Anyway,. the goal is to pick up 4 cream brulee dishes and 2 gratin dishes. Somehow they had the cream brulee dishes in this wood bucket with some shreaded wood material, sure it's cute and all but PITA to pick out the dishes I want. Anyway, being as anal as I am, I carefully picked out the dishes making sure each one of them is perfect, and set them aside on its own little pile. While I was doing that, this woman and her husband came to my little corner (yes, I was squatted on the floor at the time next to the bucket) and start picking up dishes from the pile I picked out, mumbling to her husband something like "Oh I don't know, they are too shallow looking... " while also discussing how the ceramic ramekins in the next bucket are too small blah blah... I didn't think much to it other than "Stop touching my dishes!!" lol.. Anyway, and just when I was about to grab the gratin dishes, again she was touching the gratin dishes I am buying and blah-blahing about something to her husband. So I tried to crack a bit of joke saying "Gee, we must be making the same dishes!" She went "Oh, you are making French onion soup too?" Uh... Seriously lady, French onion soup?? And you are looking at cream brulee dishes, gratin dishes and little ramekins?? Do you know what you are doing at all? Of course I kept my snooty comments to myself and only smiled and said "Oh no, just cream brulee and bake eggs... " Yes, EXACTLY like how these dishes are meant for. Anyway, she's totally at the wrong place looking for French onion soup dish because at my next stop the Sur La Table store right around the corner to Crate and Barrel, they had at least 5+ different kinds of French onion soup dishes available. I was seriously considering to go back to look for the lady to tell her about it, but on second thought, eh, it's better not to be some strange stalker girl who are too helpful for her own good :P Good luck to that lady and her husband lol...
It's true that I am a bit of a food snob but really, I don't care what ppl eat / what they want to do with their food as long as they doon't touch my perfect little ceramic dishes that I took time to pick each one of them carefully out of a pile and ready to buy :( Yah yah, I am total bitch I know! lol...
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