Julia Child Wanna-Be Over Here

Every so often, I put on the ole apron and actually do the cooking for my boyfriend. Now, this may sound strange at first, but what you may not know is that my boyfriend does a phenomenal job at cooking. He is so much better than I am, it's just not even funny. And I'm actually not bad. (Just a little unorganized in the kitchen...) 

So for whatever reason, I decided that I would cook dinner for us last night. I had big plans for this dinner. I was going to tackle a Julia Child recipe involving poached fish in a white wine sauce with mushrooms. Now, I have certainly never poached fish before (or anything actually), I just figured I could put on my pearls and do it like Julia. I spent a long time actually researching all this and making sure I wouldn't look like a fool in the process. And then the doubt set in. And then this doubt mixed with the fact that didn't want to completely screw this up for our nice Friday night dinner at home. 

Well, of course, I totally chickened out and the menu changed somewhat. I still had mushrooms and fish, but I ended up with broiled salmon and mushroom pasta instead. Much simpler and still extremely delicious. I made a summer caprese salad too with tomatoes, mozzarella, avocado and cucumber as well. Whenever one cooks, I think it is vital to make something French or Italian so that you can drink wine while you are actually cooking as well. It just makes all those near disasters not seem as bad! So whole cooking my semi-Italian dinner, I absolutely had some Italian white wine. I just want to be authentic after all. 

Mushroom Pasta made by yours truly :)

Just in case you were wondering, the dinner turned out to be delicious. Even if I did forget to cut the stems off of the shitake mushrooms that went into the pasta and they were kinda hard and inedible when you bit down on one.... No biggie!

I realized that I have only once made something out of my Julia Child cookbooks for someone else. Normally I just cook for myself in case it fails and then I end up with a ton of leftovers. Maybe soon I will take the plunge and channel my Julia and cook an amazing French dinner for some friends. I will, of course, be wearing my pearls just like the great Julia always did. Bon Appétit!