Sweet River Studios

Well, it's now the end of August and my 30 week French cooking class ended back in May. I admit, I missed cooking every week with a really great group of people but the good news is I'm taking another cooking series. In this 12 week class, we're going to be looking at 6 chefs from NY and also working from a book written about the different boroughs of NY by an author from Ohio. I was pleased to see several people from the 30 week class so there's familiar faces and there's 12 people in the class instead of 10 which makes for a large group. The first chef is Gabrielle Hamilton. We made several dishes as usual. The first was fried oyster omelettes with a tabasco slurry and tartar sauce. It was a strange combination of flavors, I must admit. Most of students either didn't care for it or loved it. The fried oysters tucked into an omelette was fine but the tartar sauce got really salty from the cornichons and the tabasco slurry was just well.... weird. The slur...

Have you ever just thought something simple like, "I really should fix that little hole in the drywall in the bathroom," or "I should just get X done and it'll look nicer" type of thoughts not knowing that one small little thing leads to a complete room remodel? Let me tell you how mine started.... When we first built our house 20 years ago, we skimped on several things to make sure our payment didn't skyrocket. Some upgrades I regret not getting but hey, that was 20 years ago. So when we were specking out our master bathroom, we didn't add a double bowl or a extra cabinet under the counter. Well, now it appears that without the full cabinets holding up the counter, the counter has started sagging and therefore pulling away from the wall, which has torn up the current paint job and it looks bad. And in order to fix said sag, we need another cabinet, which we can't find one that fits the current space and trying to repaint the custom paint...