I just finished reading Julie and Julia, and it's got me all jazzed up
about trying more of Julia Child's recipes. If you haven't read it
(and forgive me if it's already been posted about), it's by a
29-year-old secretary who decides to cook everything in Mastering the
Art of French Cooking (500 plus recipes) in one year's time -- she
blogged it, every darned recipe. Which means brains, sweetbreads,
liver, lobster vivisection... the works.

I have done a few Julia recipes (her baked ham is wonderful, as is a
so-called 'easy' recipe (ha, ha, ha) involving beef stew for two --
those darned pearl onions again), and am itching to dive in again.
Inspired, I tell you!

So, for all of you master cooks out there, any personal favorites?
Preferably personal favorites requiring less than three hours of labor?
(Much of the book was devoted to the more challenging recipes -- more
fun to write about, I suppose.) I have The Way to Cook and will be
picking up MtAoFC soon. My stove top is at the ready...

Karen MacInerney
Kitchen experimenter, family chauffeur, and culinary mystery author
www.karenmacinerney.com