Good Eats

One Monday morning recently my brother called me at work and asked if I was busy the next day. That's always a hard question to answer, because you never know, somebody might need help moving a piano or something. As it turns out, "No, what's going on tomorrow?" was the right answer. He told me that a friend of his is also a friend of Alton Brown and that he had been asked to find a couple of people who could hang out at Turner Field (our local baseball stadium) with AB for a few hours. Of course, I jumped at the chance. I love to watch cooking shows, but if I could only watch one I'd probably pick Good Eats (OK, I would hope that AB had Jacques Pepin and Martin Yan as guests pretty often). I like that Brown explains the why of cooking and not just the how.
My brother had invited my mom also, and they can be seen directly behind AB in the stadium shots. I got to walk between the camera and AB while he is talking to his "special guest" (I'm the last person to walk past). I got a lot of pictures, but I thought this one was appropriate, and if you know Brown's background you probably will, too. I would have been willing to be an extra on pretty much any TV show, but if I had been asked to name one that I wanted to be on, I'd have had to flip a coin between this one and Heroes. I'm still waiting to hear from NBC.

Popovers

I usually don't eat much for breakfast. On work days I'll usually have something easy to make that I can eat while I'm getting ready. Often that means a cream cheese and ham bagel or a Sunbutter sandwich (If, like us, someone at your house gets cauliflower body from peanuts, try it. You'll be amazed.). On weekends I might go all out with a big breakfast, but most of the time it's one of the above or cereal.
Well, today the kids ate the last of the cereal; I didn't want one of the extra eggs I had boiled yesterday when I made tuna salad; there was not a bagel or any Sunbutter in the house, and I didn't want much to eat. I had seen a post on Slashfood about popovers, so I thought I'd give them a try. I did use Martha Stewart's recipe instead, though, because it makes six. A soon as I opened the cabinet to get the muffin pan out (you use what you've got), UKH was right there asking if she could help. She measured the flour and mixed in the salt, and I melted the butter in the microwave and buttered the pan. She whisked the milk, butter, and eggs together and poured them into the dry ingredients. I was a little concerned at how thin the batter was, but the popovers turned out really good. We just ate them plain, but next time maybe I'll plan ahead and have some of my wife's freezer strawberry jam thawed out to put inside them.

Takeover

Well, I've taken this blog away from my wife. I might not post any more often, but now I won't be mistaken for her.