Back on Day 20 of the L/J&J Project, I talked about how torturous it was for me to watch all of the characters in Julie & Julia constantly feast on gourmet cooking, while I was forced to eat the junkiest of junk food.
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| I would kill to lick Amy Adams' fingers... Oh, and that raspberry Bavarian cream looks pretty good too. |
Well it's been 253 days, and though the food in Julie & Julia hasn't changed at all, I've watched this movie enough times to pick up a thing or two about cooking to make myself a substantial meal. Yes, that's right--I've actually learned how to cook (If it wasn't evident from my chocolate creme pie, aspic and poached egg posts). But now that I have the guidance of both the film itself and Julia's Mastering the Art of French Cooking, how could I possibly go wrong?
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| Reference materials. |
Okay, so I flipped through all the recipes in Mastering and I realized I didn't have any of the fancy schmancy ingredients that Julie and/or Julia might have had in the film. After all, I'm working on a college intern budget here.
After consulting the cookbook's index, I realized I could only make one dish--Julia's famous Hot Dogs & Angel Hair Pasta!
Okay... so I realize that Julia's famous Hot Dogs & Angel Hair Pasta is not a real dish. But I am really, really quite poor and have very, very limited cooking skills. Besides, that was a hearty fucking meal right there. Much better than, say... this...
Oh, fuck you Julie & Julia. I'm doing fine on my own, thank you very much.
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| The ketchup from the hot dogs lent the pasta an almost spaghetti-sauce-like taste! |
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| Molto Bene! |
Julie & Julia Quote of the Day: "And went back to bed for several hours."
That's a "give me some cash" gesture there in the final photo, if I'm not very much mistaken.
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Lawrence is going to make a fine husband for someone some day with those off-the-hook cooking skills. And I see he didn't skimp on the dogs either; those fuckers are BUN size.
ReplyDeleteShells and Cheese with cut up hot dogs. Got me through my sophomore year of college.
ReplyDeleteVery nice. I'm sure Julia would approve. :-) I'm pretty excited to see you follow this through. Keep it up :-)
ReplyDeleteI had a surprise when I was shelving some non-fiction books at my library today. I ended up shelving Julie Powell's book "Cleaving." The one she wrote after "Julie & Julia." "Julia & Julia" was misplaced on the shelf also, so I put it back in the right spot. Anyway, it made me think of this blog today. Keep up the good work. I couldn't stand just holding the book the few seconds I had it in my hands.
ReplyDeleteWhy would you ruin good spaghetti with pig guts and nitrates! Yuck!
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