In the summer of 2011, I wrote a To Do list. Its effect was spectacular. Not only did I manage to cross off “find a job abroad” and “find a new place to live”, I even managed to “clean microwave” and “spend book tokens”. Because I wouldn’t mind more of these successes, I wrote a new list for 2012 and keep track of the food-related To Do’s here.
- Try (at least) one new restaurant per month: Jan- Han Lim, Feb- Bistro B, Comme Chez Maman, Le Belisaire, Mar- Le Poincare, Krishna Bhavan, Apr- Le Tambour, Bistro de Longchamps, Fika (Brick Lane), Zucca (Bermondsey Street), May- Spring
- Have brunch out: 28 April at Earth’s Kitchen, Rue Daunou in the 2nd
- Get knife sharpened
- Organize recipe drawer
- Have an Aperol and cheese bread night with friends
- Eat more whole grains: toasted five-grain cereal, brown rice salad
- Eat more leafy green vegetables: braised kale, spinach in a lentil soup and in rice with blue cheese, goat’s cheese and spinach tarts by Weight Watchers
- Bake more bread
- Sow dill, and cilantro and radicchio
- Go on a tour with David Lebovitz
- Go to Chocolate and Zucchini anniversary party, if there is one this year
- Order the AmateurGourmet cookbook
- Finish reading “Goed Koken”
- Visit a dairy farm
- Eat at Yamazato
- Buy new dinner plates
- Obtain fabric napkins
- Cook a recipe from Marrakesh/Barcelona/Vietnam cooking courses
- Roast a large joint of beef
- Use ribbon cutting gadget
- Eat more fish: sardines and pasta, white bean and tuna salad, quick sea supper, moqueca, pasta with leek and albacore tuna
- Make mayonnaise from scratch
- Make ricotta
- Bake at least 4 pizzas: 28 Jan, 24 March
- Cook something from each of my cookbooks
- Have luch at Ron Blaauw
- Cook jam: rhubarb blood orange preserves
- Clean and cook an artichoke
- Have a picknick
