A Nigella in the Kitchen, An Austen in the….

{ July 19, 2010 @ 1:39 pm } · { Uncategorized }

Right, so I’m writing two posts in a day. I could however, publish it tomorrow or two days later or two weeks later, point is I’m writing it now, so be grateful(whoever is reading).

Right well, let’s get on with it, shall we.

Clearly, the title cannot be completed with ‘bedroom’( An Austen in the bedroom), since I clearly do not know of Jane Austen’s prowess there, however, I do know that she is superb at the writing part, and because I am most certainly not ,I was unable to think of a good name that would mean writing and rhyme with bedroom.  My point is,well, I don’t know what it is, but whatever.

So first the Nigella part and before I get started ion a rant about her, let me update you with my rendezvous a la moi with cooking. So I tried the aforementioned Pudding-y Cake, which looked every bit as dissimilar to the picture in the above post.  Admittedly the cake won’t win any beauty pageants, but remember that old notion about not judging books by covers, well apply it here. The thing with chocolate is that it always looks good, no matter what( as long as its only chocolate, don’t mix cow poo with it and come running to me saying it looks bad). Long story short, the cake feels like a party in the mouth, tons of chocolate sauce and the best part is, its pretty low on the whole fat content thing, no cream only one egg…you get the picture. Accompany it with pure vanilla ice-cream and its divinity is decadent. So try it, you won’t regret it.

On a completely unrelated but non-the-less important note, I found this great article which has scared several forms of living daylights out of me:- http://www.trappedbymonsters.com/2010/07/the-score/ ( I meant the article, not the picture, but you have to admit, it’s not a sunshine and rainbows kind of picture,is it?)

But I digress, on to Nigella Lawson. I love her. Plain and simple. She, to

With Love, Nigella

quote normal slang, ‘rocks’. You watch one of her shows, and you’re captivated, under this spell. You watch her do things haphazardly,  shoot spur-of-the-moment ideas and just be so, so normal. Its amazing, and, quite frankly, liberating.  I may be a novice cook, but I can cook quite well, no, not well, I can cook passionately. I am a great believer in the fact that whatever you do, you do it with passion, it turns out great, It has to. It’s an unwritten law. I mouth the steps a recipe calls for, imitating her style. Admittedly I don’t cook like, 6 days a week. But when I do cook, I cook differently.

SO enough about cooking, lets move on to the Jane Austen part of the title. Madame Austen is regarded as the greatest or the most renowned female author in English Literature. Indeed, several movies have been made based on her books and even a biography based movie of her life called Becoming Jane. My ambition is not confined to writing like Jane Austen. I enjoy satire and , indeed, many times black humor. Supernatural does not suit me, even though I find it highly enjoyable to read it. My point is that, I find it admirable that a woman who did not lead a liberal such that I have the liberty of  leading wrote tales of such sublime fantasies that almost two centuries later, have not failed to entertain people the world over. Simply speaking literature is my life. No joke, I started a blog about it. Reading was probably something I learned before I learned to potty train. Writing came soon after(after the toilet training, not the reading). Which is why my iPod contains an equivalent of a handful of songs, and (currently) Oscar Wilde and Anne Fadiman(Ex-Libris) audiobooks. But more about audiobooks later.

Thanks for Reading,

EQ

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