Mission Accomplished
My grandmother's house always smells unbelievable. No matter what time of day you walk in, it always smells like she's just cooked a five-course meal. Ever since I've lived on my own (not including grad school, when it was a major accomplishment to feed myself anything), I've wanted to enter my own home to a smell as luscious as the smell of her house.
Last night it finally happened.
I put on the green beans (cooked with ham hock, of course) at noon. I put the baby back ribs in the oven at 2:00 p.m. When Joshua and I returned from the doctor at 4:30 (it seems we are being visited by a lovely case of roseola or some other viral infection), my house smelled so good. In fact, it smelled almost as good as my grandmother's house. I don't know how many more meals like that I'll have to cook until my house smells like that all the time, but I'm just happy that it worked once.
Last night it finally happened.
I put on the green beans (cooked with ham hock, of course) at noon. I put the baby back ribs in the oven at 2:00 p.m. When Joshua and I returned from the doctor at 4:30 (it seems we are being visited by a lovely case of roseola or some other viral infection), my house smelled so good. In fact, it smelled almost as good as my grandmother's house. I don't know how many more meals like that I'll have to cook until my house smells like that all the time, but I'm just happy that it worked once.
posted by Mary Beth at 11:01 AM
5 Comments:
I bet Glade Bacon-N-Coffee would fly off the shelves...why don't they make that? i'd buy a case!
Yea, people always say my house smells like that. The secret is food-scented candles! Pumpkin pie, sugar cookies, vanilla coffee bean, McIntosh apples, blueberries... Haven't seen green bean or baby back rib candles, though.
The key is slow cooking food.
I love it when I cook long enough that the usual dog smell is replaced with a scrumptious smell of food.
Right now we have a gi-normous basil plant in the kitchen and that helps too!
I love it when that happens! A well spiced pork roast can get my house smelling pretty good. :) Good luck with the roseola, no fun!
It all goes to prove that pork fat does indeed rule.
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