Culinarily Emasculated

Hope I got the spelling right up there....coffee hasn't kicked in yet, and I had the worst sleep in a long time last night...or this morning, depending on how you would look at. 2am.....2 frikken AM! I think that is when I finally crashed out. Not sure if it was the heat...the humidity...or what....but yeah, no sleep for me. dammit.

  But now, this one is not about my sleeping habits, but rather what the title suggests. (But I do luvs my sleepin)

 Anyways, quick note here, I love to cook. Something about the art and the science of cooking, together, that makes it perhaps one of the greatest forms of expression ever. So much can be conveyed through an excellent meal. Love, friendship, trust, lust...all there in front of your senses. Also, for the cook...trying to make something new, a new recipe, for anything, is a joy, no matter how simple it is.

 This leads me to my recent experiment with making aioli. To sum it up, an aioli is a sauce like mayonnaise. In fact, it is pretty much made like mayo. Egg, oil, and garlic.Add one immersion blender to the mix, and bam, you have an aioli., or alioli. One can use a mortar and pestle to produce a similar product as well.
 This was something I mistook to be something laborious and time consuming. In fact, until I saw a video on how to make it. Pretty easy.
   Then I went and did it. Made it all up. done just right. A nice garlic-ginger aioli. I used it in a slaw i put on a soft taco shell, over pork shoulder roast, marinated in a Asian inspired mix, cooked low and slow, shredded, and then returned to the over in the roast pan, with some soya over top to keep it moist, and to add a little more flavour. The whole combination of tastes, exquisite.
 Now, the down fall. I told one of my friends about my success in the kitchen, and how I had made the aioli. She gave me kudos for the pork shoulder, but said "aioli is too easy, so no props for that."

 Instant deflate.

 I knew then, that the aioli was actually pretty easy to make, I hadn't before though, as I previously stated.
Sigh, no winning there.
Last time I share something like that.

 Anyways, until next time.