As I mentioned on the Parade of Awesomeness, I’m learning to cook. Today I made vegetable stock for the first time; it’s actually still boiling right now.
Lessons learned so far:
- It takes about twenty minutes to remove the sticker from the side of a stock pot
- A chef’s knife is much, much easier than any other knife for chopping vegetables.
- Even so, chopping vegetables takes forever.
- A rimless baking sheet is not the same as a cutting board.
- According to the recipe book, those white mushrooms are supposed to have closed caps that cover all the way down to the stem. It would have been smarter to read that section before buying a box of mushrooms.
- Mushrooms float.
Hopefully this stuff will taste good in soup tomorrow!
Niteowl
March 23, 2009 at 2:33 pm
Ah, yes, the French Chef, the only knife I use really.