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My greatest culinary achievement!
Gravy. From scratch.
Yes, go ahead and laugh. After 29 years, I finally got brave and decided to conquer roux. All the talk about Thanksgiving got me hungry for turkey and gravy so I made do with the stuff I already had at home to satisfy the craving. Pan-fried chicken breasts with mushroom country gravy. I cannot wait for dinner tonight! Hope John gets home soon!!
Anyone else have any proud moments in their cooking life to share? 
Re: My greatest culinary achievement!
that's awesome!!
my biggest moment was when i was first able to use yeast and didn't end up with a hard, flat, rock!!
Jaime & Brent
Oahu, Hawaii | Sept. 9, 2005
My Food Blog - Good Eats 'n Sweet Treats
awesome! i normally mke mushroom gravy during TG and bring it to TG dinner at the ILs. DH is vegetarian so he cant have the regular meat gravy.
hmm..i guess everytime i try a new recipe and DH loves it is a defining moment for me..lol
sounds really good! YUMMY
I consider it a big achievement anytime I get off my butt and try to cook something, and if it turns out enjoyable to eat- bonus!
the first time I successfully made a bouche de noel (yule log) all by myself at Christmas. the first year was a complete disaster, but the second time was a charm
LOL gravy is one of those things that's so scary on the surface, but when you actually do it you think, "Oh. Well that wasn't so bad." Although there's always that one lumpy moment about 1/3 of the way through where I invariably think it's not going to work and I'll have to scrap the whole thing...
Let's see, proud moments...I was pretty proud of making pretzels from scratch!
Oh we're the same, my greatest achievement is telling Ryan I'll take care of the baby if he cooks and he does!! He's a really good cook!
This definitely trumps gravy! I still have to work on John....
SO, how did it go over? Did Join luv it? Did you take a picture??
And, I know- aren't those chocolate cookie mushrooms great? My MIL says she used to make meringue mushrooms for the log but likes the little Japanese ones much better.