What's Cooking?

I have a secret vice that I have kept hidden for too long.  I watch daytime TV.  Specifically, cooking shows.  Not all cooking shows are about cooking though, some are game shows.  But it doesn’t make any difference, because it’s all Jessica’s fault.

Jessica is a fan, and is (or was or will be) a rabid viewer of every cooking show on TV now, and every cooking show that ever was on TV, and every cooking show that will ever be.  She is very knowledgeable about cooking shows.  So, when one day she was telling me about this fellow, Jamie Oliver, I sort of listened.  Not only was he a cooking guy, but he also worked at improving the food served in British schools.

Awhile later I came across his name in the TV listings, and I tuned in to find out what my daughter was talking about.  One show and I was hooked.  Guess what!  Cooking isn’t that hard.  Maybe fancy cooking is hard, but many tasty and attractive concoctions can easily be put together.  I am the proud owner of two Jamie Oliver cookbooks, and I have incorporated many of his techniques into my kitchen routines.

I have become a fairly tolerable cook.  There are no cases of food poisoning that I am aware of.  Now however, just my culinary skills are flowering, I have no one to cook for.  I still watch the cooking shows, always on the lookout for an interesting recipe.  One of the shows I watch from time to time is Rachel Ray.  It’s not really a cooking show.  It’s more of a ‘life-style’ show with a cooking segment.

This is what I’m getting at, and it has nothing to do with cooking.  On a recent show two women had a contest to see who was the better household organizer and declutterer.  One of the women stored her jewelry and accessories in one of those shoe holders you hang from a closet door.  And that gave me an idea.

Saturday I purchased one of those shoe holders.  I’m not going to use it for shoes.  Instead I am going to fill the compartments with a variety of objects and pictures.  The specific contents have yet to be determined.  However, the concept has a name: The Tapestry of Junk.