aargersi

Austin Texas
marketing database manager

I am a data nerd by day, and a home cook all of the time - one who is a little teeny tiny wee bit obsessive about food and thinking up food and cooking food and shopping for food and growing food and eating food. I lull myself to sleep planning recipes. I wake up excited about recipes I dreamed. I am a card carrying member of CA (canners anonymous - my name is Abbie and I can't stop canning. I last canned 2 weeks ago).

• What is the strangest food you have ever eaten?
  Bacon ice cream with blueberry compote and it is DELICIOUS. Does occasionally just drinking the bug that flies into my wine rather than bothering to fish it out count?
• What do you cook when home alone?
  Well, now that I have seen all of the great dinner for one recipes, could be anything!!!
• Your most treasured kitchen possession:
  Very fond of my automatic floor cleaner - aka Ginger Snap the JRT. And my onion goggles (used almost daily!) And of course not a POSSESSION, but my co-chef, sous chef, taster, food stylist and IDEA MAN - Mr L
• Your ideal meal:
  rabbit gnocchi with shaved truffles, eggplant parmesan on the side, and a brunello. In Montalcino.
• Something you'd like a chance to eat or cook:
  A goose. My friend roasted a goose for Thanksgiving and now I feel I must too.
• The number of bottles of wine you own:
  around 60
• The ideal number of guests for a dinner party is:
  6-8
• Kitchen pet peeve:
  People setting stuff all over the counters when I am in there cooking, and I can NOT cook on a dirty stove.
• Your favorite cookbook:
  I just got a collection of military wives cookbooks from my mother in law, they are from the 50s and 60s and they are a hoot!