Three Little Words

Damn I'm Good. Yes those three words describe my recent culinary victories. This past Thursday I cooked Lamb Tangine with potatoes and chickpeas. Sounds good, huh. Well, it was, but Dinner was served around 7pm, but cooking started at around 1pm. Yeah, that's right, that's six hour prep, marinade, and cook. That a long damn time. It began with cubing a 7.5 pound lamb. Not my most favorite thing to do. Not that I do it often, but I could be ok with not doing it again for a long while. It ended up being very good, we had 10 people over and ate on the floor. No, we did not eat off the floor, but in true Moroccan tradition, we took the top of the table off and laid it on the floor. We sat around on pillows and laughed at the exotic dinner party.

Today, for the first time, I cooked cabbage, black-eyed peas, and cornbread. It turned out to be an awesome New Years lunch. I think my favorite was the cornbread. Finally I have a cast iron skillet to make mom's secret recipe (actually it's Jiffy's recipe). It was good, good, good. Shout out to my sister for the awesome Christmas gift.

Now tonight I was roped into cooking breakfast food for a bunch of people. Three pounds of bacon, two and half pounds of sausage, 3 and half dozen eggs, and about 65 biscuits/rolls. It should be a blast. The premises was for everyone to come over here and watch movies and just relax, that is, except for the person cooking all this food. But I am not worried because I know before I go to bed I'll be able to say, "Damn I'm Good."