the cooking bug

so i spent yesterday at sandra & mike's, where sandra taught me all about cooking fish and making vanilla bean creme brulee. she'll be posting recipes, photos and all the details soon! whenever i try something new, i always feel so bold and experimental. like last week when i made the butter tarts......they turned out so well and then i went on to make the rice krispy squares, and they turned out so wrong! right now i'm on a high and feeling very adventurous.....i've even been surfing epicurious and google-ing all sorts of different recipes i'd like to try, i've started a shopping list of gadgets i need to buy for my kitchen, i'm trying to figure out when i can get to chapters and buy more cookbooks......it's a serious obsession right now (we'll see how long this lasts). hehehe, i can't wait until my first Real Simple magazine arrives in the mail :-)

after work today, i'm going to rush home, hit the grocery store, and buy a bunch of ingredients so i can make the chocolate chip cookie recipe that came with the cookie sheet i bought! i don't know how i'm going to manage grocery shopping, cooking dinner (curry shrimp, yum!), volunteering w/the puppies AND make cookies! hehehe, all that needs to be done before i can somehow simultaneously watch csi: miami and the apprentice! see, i'm obsessed with trying to fit in as much as i can tonight. two weeks ago, i would have been content to sit at home and watch tv for hours and hours.

so much to do, and so little time.......