I get quite manic when I’m in the throws of a new plan. My kid-friendly Mix and Match Cookbook, has been in progress since 2005. And yet all four existing chapters were developed, tested, printed and stitched together over a single weekend. Then there was kid project II, the No-Grown-Ups-Necessary Cookbook, created one crazy week in grad school when “polka dot soup,” “monkey dogs,” and “belly button mushrooms” piled up on the kitchen counter.
But it’s the 40-page, 60-recipe Death to Delivery cooking tome languishing on my C-drive that really kills me. The whole thing was built in two-weeks before I drooped. Ravenous Roommates, The Absurdly Small Kitchen, How I Hate Shopping, Happy to Be a Bachelor/ette, Romancing The Oven, Meet The Parents, Death to Delivery—the book is a Chicken historical rendering in recipes. And it is abandoned.
So what is the secret? Why do some people create while others fizzle out two-steps in? I wish I could blame work or time or any number of things. But the truth is, I could wake pre-dawn like Rooster does and write every morning. Or I could come home at 5 p.m. like a normal human being and keep my hands off the remote control. In three days I’ll be 6 months into my 30th year. This soggy-bread lifestyle must end.
Bays "Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler"
The Rules: Celebrate the traditions of Mardi Gras with Bays English Muffins steeped in the flavors of carnavale! Recipe must use one or more Bays English Muffin(s); serve 4-6 people; and call for no more than 8 ingredients (not including Bays English Muffins, water, salt and pepper). One entry per email address.
Judging Criteria: The contest will be judged by George Bay, along with a panel of independent judges, on the basis of taste, appearance, imagination, practicality, appropriateness for an English muffin, and fit with theme. Each of these foregoing judging criteria will be weighed equally.
Prizes: One First Place Winner will receive a $500 gift certificate for The Sharper Image.
But it’s the 40-page, 60-recipe Death to Delivery cooking tome languishing on my C-drive that really kills me. The whole thing was built in two-weeks before I drooped. Ravenous Roommates, The Absurdly Small Kitchen, How I Hate Shopping, Happy to Be a Bachelor/ette, Romancing The Oven, Meet The Parents, Death to Delivery—the book is a Chicken historical rendering in recipes. And it is abandoned.
So what is the secret? Why do some people create while others fizzle out two-steps in? I wish I could blame work or time or any number of things. But the truth is, I could wake pre-dawn like Rooster does and write every morning. Or I could come home at 5 p.m. like a normal human being and keep my hands off the remote control. In three days I’ll be 6 months into my 30th year. This soggy-bread lifestyle must end.
Bays "Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler"
The Rules: Celebrate the traditions of Mardi Gras with Bays English Muffins steeped in the flavors of carnavale! Recipe must use one or more Bays English Muffin(s); serve 4-6 people; and call for no more than 8 ingredients (not including Bays English Muffins, water, salt and pepper). One entry per email address.
Judging Criteria: The contest will be judged by George Bay, along with a panel of independent judges, on the basis of taste, appearance, imagination, practicality, appropriateness for an English muffin, and fit with theme. Each of these foregoing judging criteria will be weighed equally.
Prizes: One First Place Winner will receive a $500 gift certificate for The Sharper Image.
The Entry: Bays English Muffins toasted, finely processed, folded into a chocolate bourbon pecan pie.
Inspiration: Other contesters who are doing the unbelievable…following through. They do it with style, with skill, and with actual success.
Anna Ginsberg (Pillsbury 2006)
Ellie Mathews (Pillsbury 1998)
Camilla Saulsbury (National Chicken 2005, BBB 2006)
