Cucina di Becca

Happy New Year!

 

We toasted 2009 by giving our children wine...feeling very Italian. We brought in the New Year with a little Ciancanelli feast by Marcella Hazan. She is an amazing Italian cook who will be my highlight for January.

 

This pork roast simmers gently in whole milk for hours, which might  be a kosher nightmare, but is incredibly tender and produces an amazing sauce. We ate it over quinoa with asparagus on the side. Then, we had ricotta cheese fritters for dessert. Wow, Typepad is unbelieveably slow. Might post this recipe later.

 

 

So yummy--like doughnuts with a creamy filling.This was Mimi's face, right after sopping up all the honey on her plate.

The beginning of the beginning

An auspicious time to start a blog...ringing in the new year with an adventure. Feeling a bit self-conscious. But here I am.

So, the theme. I didn't just want to blog about parenting. I begin to feel that all I am is someone's parent, someone's wife, someone's friend. I want to get back to discovery of myself, my passions, my journey. I am choosing to leave behind my ambitions and the questions that my ego is searching to answer. I am looking within for something deeper, more satisifying. I am following the scent of inspiration.

Whatever that means.

So, I hope to meld my passion for cooking with my spiritual journey, finding the connections between them, or simply giving in to the comforting smells of homecooked food. This is the place where I am experimenting with my retirement plan to open a shop where I can cook for people, bring them comfort, joy...basically a place to be themselves. A home away from home.

The theme is "Mangia, mangia!" I want to stop dieting in all senses of the word. Why skimp? Why try to control life? Let's dig in, open our senses to the beauty all around us, enjoy it fully.

Ciao, ci vediamo dopo.