Stoop Sale Cookies
Last month I decided to get rid of the storage unit I’ve been hanging onto for the past six years. Truth be told, I hadn’t thought much about the unit (thanks to AutoPay) until I started watching the show Storage Wars on A&E. Being a flea market/thrift store fanatic myself, it’s no wonder I like watching a bunch of reality show characters bidding blind on storage units in the hopes of finding something valuable amongst piles of unmarked boxes. I also find it endlessly fascinating that people could just simply abandon their belongings. This point is fantastically ironic given the fact that my storage unit had been all but forgotten save for Christmas when we would make our annual pilgrimage to retrieve the holiday decorations.
Tiramisu
I read somewhere that you should never try a new recipe if you plan on sharing the end result with others. The logic behind this advice is intended to save you from the humiliation of failure should your kitchen experiment go awry. While I’m sure this suggestion has proven helpful to some, I wholeheartedly disagree. There’s no fun in making something safe—a proven winner—because the whole joy of cooking (at least for me) comes from my connection to the process, not the end result. Julia Child was quoted as saying, “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you’ve got to have a ‘What the hell?’ attitude.” My thoughts exactly. That being said, I’ve had my fair share of flops, but they’ve taught me to let go and move on (which has only served to further fuel my courage in the kitchen).