Show 0 SWEEPINGS SWEEPING'S oJ BY IRIS BY-IRIS IRIS M t i l w kr- kr I 0 About the fifteenth time I heard What again What again from my family at the dinner table I signed up for a cooking class with a than never attitude Actually my own feelings about cooking are rather primitive or at any rate basic Is It easy and Will anybody eat it But black looks from her family can get to any cook after a certain length of time AFTER THE FIRST hour of cooking class class or or rather the Culinary Course was Course was over I was fired with enthusiasm for fancy dishes It a lead pipe cinch Anybody who could turn on the water faucet or crack an egg could it appeared make passable beef stroganoff or a smooth hollandaise sauce Furthermore desserts that look rich richand richand richand and delicious required only a flick of the wrist as one skillfully combined dainty ingredients Or at least that's the conclusion I arrived at seated second row front taking notes As we filed from the hall a lady who was stationed beside the door well door well actually she was standing right in the middle of It Is what she was doing thoughtfully doing thoughtfully sold each student a cookbook I read mine as I rode home on the bus and the schedule given in the first chapter outlined with enormous simplicity the menus for a week at a time It all looked easy Now I 1 said to myself well we'll see about those malcontents who sit down to my table nightly MONDAY AFTERNOON I spent three hours In the kitchen talking to myself the while I strove to put together a dish called Chicken Mousse fousse with Supreme Sauce I should have quit on that recipe while I was ahead which was just before I read the first ingredient cl 1 whole chicken breast from a 4 2 1 to 5 lb Ib lb bird I had the chicken breast all right bought on Saturday but I didn't have a clue as to how much the bird weighed It had at atone atone atone one time been attached to Considerably less after the br breast ast was re removed move I was willingto to wager the next ingredient for my Chicken Mousse was two eggs separated which I managed with dash Next the recipe called for 2 1 cup coffee cream The carton in my refrigerator just said cream on It with no mention of coffee but Make do I told myself and plowed on I shouldn't Iha have ve The mousse was a disaster NOTHING DAUNTED AS the old saying goes I dove into my recipe book on Tuesday and came up with Bubble and Squeak But I gave up on that because I couldn't read the recipe without giggling I tried next Frankfurters In Blankets which my family ate My only mistake was telling them the name of what we were having for dinner which caused a good deal more laughter than thought I was altogether necessary About the end of the week after being served Heart Sauerbraten one night and Tomato stuffed with Kidney Beans the next my husband threw In the towel and took us all out to a restaurant for the first time since the stove blew up WHEN WE GOT HOME I tucked my fancy little cookbook cookbook cook cook- book under the dishtowels In my bottom drawer and went back to cooking the way Ive I've always done it which means my children are happy with anything that can be slapped between two slices of bread and my husband If he can pour gravy over it It It Isn't fancy but Im I'm going to leave it that way |