July 30, 2007

  • Cooking Update

    I just spent  5 hours on this recipe for ratatouille.  Yes, the recipe is not named ratatouille, but that's what they made in the movie.  Sorry, should I have put a spoiler alert before that?


    Frankly, I don't know if all that time was worth it.  Granted 2.5 hours of it was spent baking it in the oven.  However, it  proved to be much more watery than I expected.  I did like the vinagrette sprinkled on at the end.


    Now that I have attempted this recipe, I think I could shave an hour off by organizing my time better, but even so, that's a lot of time for a vegetable dish that has only 4 servings.  Perhaps, I could do a double batch, or I could come up with a way to introduce a vingrette into my recipe.


    I call it my recipe, but it's the one from the Time Life cook book on French provincial cuisine that Julia Child edited.