The Pink Shoe Diaries

so i have a secret.

it's not something i am proud of, and it certainly happened by accident..but it's true nonetheless.

you see, it turns out, i can cook.

i mean, i never though i could. i am a girl who has messed up grilled cheese sandwiches, burned ramen noodles, ruined cookies made from store-bought dough!

but this living-on-my-own, no-one-to-cook-for-me has really opened my eyes!

granted, adam is a fantastic cook and if it were not for him i would have several vitamin defficiencies. but after a while, even I start to feel bad about never cooking anything.

so i took the culinary bull by the horns and have been experimenting. last week, we had one of those pre-food shopping nights where there is nothing in the house to eat..and by nothing i mean some ziti, some semi-old mexican shredded cheese and 2 breafkast sausages. so what do i do? bakc it all together into baked ziti and it actually came out great! so this builds my confidence....and the next time i cook i make a honey-mustard marinated baked chicken with corn and pasta sides. again: brilliant!!

but he piece de resistance came last night. yesterday was mine and adam's one year anniversary (cue applause) and since i am less than employed at the moment, i decided to spend much of the day preparing a special dinner for the night. i did the whole "gourmet food shopping thing " and bought some fresh rosemary, some roasted red peppers, some garlic etc...and came home and began making pan-roasted balsamic rosemary chicken with a side or red-pepper tortellini. it came out divinely. i got nervous at one point, and made double the tortellini just in case the chicken was inedible..but it came out great!! perfect, even! you just may be reading the blog of the next rachel ray.

riiiiiight

if you're interested in the recipe, however, let me know. it is easy to make and comes out amazing.

now, onto other things. i have not heard back from the jobs yet. i have two more interviews today...one of which is with a recruiter/head hunter type which i hate to do...but i need a backup plan in case none of these other jobs pan out.

since i do need money though, i will be freelancing and my first freelance job is this saturday. now, i talk sometimes to this girl Kelly who i used to work with at the Neghborhood Club. I was talking to her online yesterday and she was encouraging me to come back to NC (which if you know how i left, you know it's an impossibility...quitiing on New Years Eve with no notice leaves a bad taste in an employer's mouth). But then she mentioned that she sometimes cocktail waitresses for certain members at private parties in their own homes...and then she said she was supposed to work this party on Saturday in Wellesley but wasnt going to be able to make it so I, generous (money hungry) soul that i am, volunteered to take her place. So i talked to the gentleman who is throwing the party for his wife, and sent him my picture (shady, i know, but we must face facts that no one wants a 300 lb cocktail waitress, or one with facial piercings and pink hair). so this saturday i will be donning the black bow tie once more, while i peddle martinis and mini-quiche on silver platters.