My new passion is cooking. I am addicted to the website ecookbooks.com (Jessica's Biscuit) and the Food Network. My mission this weekend is to get some new pans. I have bookmarks on my computer for smoked salts and exotic sauces. I was a devotee of The Next Food network Star (my favorite won) and am currently avidly following Top Chef (my fave is in the top 3). I love watching knife skills, and turning food just by doing that little wrist-flip to the pan. I have always liked to cook, but got re-invigorated for some reason I'm not real sure how to pinpoint. Was it eating something really great and thinking, I need to know how to make this? Was it the Anthony Bourdain Les Halles cookbook that I got just because I like him but made me want to find veal bones for a demi-glace? I don't know. But I am rediscovering the joy of cooking (and I don't mean the book, even though I am glad it is in my library in case the world as we know it comes to an end and I need to learn how to skin and cook a squirrel). One really great thing is that my mom loves to cook, too, and we are planning some culinary adventures together. I still need to work on my organization, though. The other day I semi-burned a bunch of ingredients because I lost my can opener and had to run upstairs to figure out their electric one. I still haven't found my can opener.

SHE-MALE CHEFS