Confession: sometimes I enjoy watching Martha Stewart. It’s like gazing into an alternate universe, a world where the pillows are always fluffed, gifts are always homemade, and everyone not only knows what chervil is, but they have it growing in their meticulously-tended gardens. I also love how since Martha lives in this world, she assumes everyone else does too.
Tonight, her idea of a “quick cook dinner” was red snapper with capers, italian green peppercorns and fennel, cooked in parchment paper, with a side dish of cous-cous with shallots, lemon zest and fresh dill.
Yeah, I’ve got that stuff on hand.
Martha rocks. She is one of those lightening rods for “what is wrong with people today”, but fact is she is a billionare ex model who can pretty much say what she wants, when she wants to the American public.
Sign me up!
Oh yeah, none of those ingredidents are that hard to get. Capers may be the hard one, but you can’t find any of them in a box of Ramen.
You do know how to make lemon zest, right?
No, but if you hum a few bars, I’ll fake it ….
How funny that you caught that too. As I was cruising through the channels, lementing that there was no hockey game on, I saw her doing something with fish fillets, chuckled to myself and kept on going.
Martha is a guilty pleasure of mine, too.
I wouldn’t say Martha is a guilty pleasure of mine. I’d say she is a radical crystallization of the vague antifeminism swirling throughout the culture, so you get something which actually looks empowering but is right out of “The Feminine Mystique.” That said, I have been known to stand in front of a television set in a store showing Martha and suddenly become dreamy-eyed and slack-jawed. The same thing happens to me with “Pretty Woman.” I have to avoid these things. It’s my constitution.
Actually, we do have couscous, shallots, and dill at my house (the dill is not all that fresh, though). But I defy anyone to have parchment paper hanging around the kitchen drawer.
Why don’t they just sell parchment paper at the grocery store. Parchment paper is IMPOSSIBLE to get. And it is on every DAMN cooking show! Argh!!!