cooking apathy

alas, last night we were too apathetic to cook, or rather, lmf-en-exil spent 40 minutes trying to decide who should call me to say "where should we go to dinner instead of cooking?" i'm tired of indecisive people, honestly... well, v and i will be making chicken curry and empanadas next week, which should be fun.

i gave in and bought a bottle of muscat. to assuage my guilt i will be making the beaumes-de-venise cake from epicurious.com, once i find some grapes that are good enough to go in the cake (this is one of those things where i don't get to try the recipe multiple times in order to get it right, huh?).

i found out last weekend that i do, in fact, like raw fish. in fact, i think i might be hooked now (sorry for the unintentional pun). my mother made gravlax on saturday, and after a finicky first taste, i tried it again (following the maxim of jeffrey steingarten's that if you eat enough of something you will come to like it). it's very odd knowing that you're eating a piece of raw, well, animal (sorry to the vegetarians). it's much different to eat a raw carrot, for example, because you know that it wasn't about to say something to its sibling when it got caught in a net (or so we like to think). ok, enough with the parenthetical insertions. anyway, i think that sushi with raw fish in it might hold more attraction for me, now that i know that fish, in general, tastes better raw than cooked. i think i had this perception that the raw fish would just taste like a concentrated version of that too-fishy smell that tells you that the fish has gone bad.

anyway, hopefully the cooking apathy will end soon; i think it will. we're planning to picnic sometime this weekend, so that will most likely involve cooking. if it doesn't, i'm going to cry. at any rate, v and i will cook next week, and i'll of course do some desserts. we might visit craigie street bistrot on thursday, to patronize its only-french table.

p.s. lance armstrong is currently 2nd in the tour de france.