Cooking Le Creuset!

Well, today I cooked Celery Root & Apple Soup in my new Le Creuset pot. First use.

Recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Celery-Root-and-Apple-Soup-239846

Fabulous!

Pearl 

New Treat: Le Creuset pot

For an early birthday present, I bought myself a prezzie: my first Le Creuset pot, a 2.75 qt. round Dutch oven. It arrived yesterday.

Oh, it is so beautiful! I cannot wait to use it.

This is super-great, too, because I just unloaded a large group of older pans to Goodwill. This one will more than fulfill the use of those older pots. It is also perfect in size for my single-life cooking,w here I really only want to cook two or three servings (not eight!) for me. Part of my New Year's resolutions for 2010, to cook and eat better. Meaning in part smaller, cheaper, more skillfully.

Yay, me!

Pearl 

Dallas: Cold!

It is chilly, cold, chilly in DFW. Compounded by the fact that my apartment furnace is blinky-blink. Oy!

Flying back from upstate NY, I thought Texas would be warmer. Not so much so. Cold, chilly, cold.

There is one short week and a half before classes start again. Time to do the January Clean out Thing: closets, drawers, bins, and files...  Today, the Kitchen. Tomorrow, the Closets. Sunday, the Study.

Pearl