im2smrt4u

Starkizzer went all out for a holiday get together and made Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon for dinner last night. It was amazing! While she was cooking, I was taking some pictures.

















The recipe for anyone interested can be found here:
Julia Child’s Boeuf Bourguignon Recipe Knopf Doubleday - Cooking

While this took a long time to make, it was definitely worth it! We will be doing this one again!

__________________
Starkizzer Fan Club - President & Founder

amonkie

Oh my!

Thank looks absolutely delicious

__________________
Calling from deep in the heart, from where the eyes can't see and the ears can't hear, from where the mountain trails end and only love can go... ~~~ Three Rivers Hare Krishna

Cynthetiq

that looks wonderful!!!!

__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

wooÐs

Looks great -

Difficulty on a scale from 1-5?

Daniel_

That looks lovely.

I love good cooking.

__________________

╔═════════════════════════════════════════╗
Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
╚═════════════════════════════════════════╝

im2smrt4u

Everyone seems to say that it would be a 5, but star made it look more like a 3 or so. It is mostly time consuming, not hard according to her.

__________________
Starkizzer Fan Club - President & Founder

wooÐs

I figured a 4 or 5. Looks like it came out great tho.

LoganSnake

I REALLY like that dining area. Way more than I like the way the actual dish looks, except for the meat.

It's just that I dislike soups and vegetables.

__________________
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you'll be an idiot in the future. Common sense is knowing that you should try not to be an idiot now. - J. Jacques

Starkizzer

LS, its more like meat with a thick and delicious gravy on it. The veggies taste nothing like their original state and instead take on the taste of the wine and beef bullion they are cooked in. I was truly amazed at how tasty it came out.

Oh, and thanks about the dining room area. It was an old awful looking set I was given as a hand me down. Over the summer I sanded and painted the whole thing black and then recovered the cushions with this fabric I fell in love with from IKEA.

__________________
Frivolity, at the edge of a Moral Swamp, hears Hymn-Singing in the Distance and dons the Galoshes of Remorse. ~Edward Gorey

genuinegirly

Beautiful place-setting =)

__________________
"Sometimes I have to remember that things are brought to me for a reason, either for my own lessons or for the benefit of others." Cynthetiq

"violence is no more or less real than non-violence." roachboy

little_tippler

Lovely photos, and the food looks amazing.

I recently watched the movie Julia & Julia which is in part about Julia Child, I hadn't heard of her before. Btw Meryl Streep is amazing as Julia Child. The boeuf bourgignon recipe appears in the film and I was curious to try it. So thanks for this!

Can't wait to try it myself.

__________________
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Cynthetiq

watch some of here shows.. she's one of the originals before all the Food Network people.

http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/

http://www.pbs.org/juliachild/video.html

__________________
I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.

little_tippler

thank you for those links Cyn, I'd been meaning to try and find some of her cooking show episodes to watch...she looks like a quirky lady and an amazing cook...I like the combination heh.

__________________
Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918

Redlemon

I was thinking the same thing. Especially in that sweater.

__________________
I can't read your signature. Sorry.

Starkizzer

Thanks Redlemon, but I wasn't the dish of the night.

__________________
Frivolity, at the edge of a Moral Swamp, hears Hymn-Singing in the Distance and dons the Galoshes of Remorse. ~Edward Gorey