I’m a Jinius

Confession.

I like to read cookbooks in bed.

But not just any cookbook. I like to read Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat–her ode to cooking and consuming. It’s really the perfect lullaby. You can feel Nigella soothe you to sleep with her stories on how to cook the perfect roast chicken or bernaise sauce.

So tonight I decided that I should probably actually, you know, attempt to cook something instead of just reading about it. I was really craving chocolate so I embarked on a chocolate chip cookie expedition. Unfortunately I don’t have Nigella’s baking bible The Domestic Goddess so I turned to one of my favorite food blogs for direction.

If you guys haven’t clicked on Smitten Kitchen then bookmark her now and subscribe to her feed! Her writing and food are just delicious. The photos just seem to leap off the screen and beg to be eaten.

Smitten’s favorite chocolate chip cookie recipe is from David Lebovitz’s Great Book of Chocolate. After one look at the photos I knew I had to have them. In my mouth. Immediately.

So I tried to channel my inner domestic goddess.

This is what Nigella wears in the kitchen.

This is what I wear.

It kinda looks like a Kandisky painting.

Or a geometry lesson. And, yes, I’m wearing spandex. Don’t you wear spandex in the kitchen?

This is what my kitchen looked like during the cooking process. Um, I’m a domestic goddess in training.

And here’s how my cookies came out.

I’m not the most skilled photographer tee-hee. But you will just have to take my stomach’s word that these cookies were Le Bomb. I must have gobbled up a half dozen ’cause I just had to take a bite out of each batch and make sure they turned out okay!

I guess on my way to becoming a domestic goddess! If domestic goddesses wear spandex…

Recipe here.