I can haz Great Leap Forward?

[desperance]

This afternoon, baking bread by New Technique (stretching rather than kneading, since you ask: is odd but effective, and amazingly much easier on bad hands & shoulders), I thought maybe it might be fun to work my way right through this book in an orderly fashion, baking every loaf, bun and roll offered. In order.

Mulling just now over what to do about dinner, I realised just how much of a rut I have slid into, cooking-wise; which is no surprise, my being a creature-of-habit and all, but suddenly I want to revolt. I want not to cook anything I know how to cook. I want new recipes, new ingredients, new techniques.

To some extent, I guess I'm whistling in the wind here; there aren't that many ingredients I haven't cooked. Lots of new techniques, though. New combinations, different flavourings.

Time to leave the tired old tricks behind me for a while. *nods*

We'll see what California has to offer, perhaps, in the way of New...