Izzy Bishop is at it again
I’m going to repost my fictional character Izzy’s blog here but feel free to head to her site to follow her for more in the future. Back to MY content very soon.
LAUREN WARING LARSENT IS A STAR
So, who knew my mother would read my blog? But she did, and can I say she was not pleased with my … shall we say ‘characterization’ of my sister. I admit, I was a little heavy on the uptight aspects of Lauren (I mean, she’s my boss, that’s not easy) but I like to think of myself as fair so here are a few of her good traits.
Give me a second.
Just kidding. She’s amazing. She’s uber organized (hence, the perfect person to run an organizing company, Order Out of Chaos is fantastic), she’s a great mom, a devoted wife, a loving daughter. She sounds perfect, doesn’t she? Hard to compete with all that, especially as the older sister. But I digress.
Lauren is also a great cook, we share recipes all the time. Of course, she’s more of a from-scratch cook and I don’t mind shortcuts (for example, when bagged salads arrived on the scene I was an immediate adopter and she always makes homemade dressing) but on the whole the Waring sisters (our maiden name) can throw down in the kitchen. The biggest difference is that Lauren’s kitchen will be returned to pristine cleanliness within thirty minutes of dinner ending. In fact, I’ve watched her clean up as she’s cooking, and my kitchen … might have some remnants hanging around the next morning (pots clean better after soaking – I will die on that hill).
Along the cooking theme – here’s this week’s tip: buy the best cookware you can afford (All-Clad comes to mind) and treat those pots and pans like the goddesses they are (hand wash, towels between stacked pans to prevent scratching). This prevents the buildup of ticky-tacky scratched up cheap Teflon pans. I know how it works, you see a sparkling new twelve dollar sauce pan at Homegoods and just know your omelets will no longer stick if you just had that pan, so you buy it but then fail to throw out the old one. The accumulation seems slow but all of a sudden you are wrestling to get a skillet out of a motley stack that is the kitchen equivalent of ratty underwear. Treat yourself to good pans and you could even look forward to cooking. I might even go so far as to say that my All-Clan pans spark joy (wink wink).
As does Lauren. Sometimes. (I mean, all the time, right mom?)
So, who knew my mother would read my blog? But she did, and can I say she was not pleased with my … shall we say ‘characterization’ of my sister. I admit, I was a little heavy on the uptight aspects of Lauren (I mean, she’s my boss, that’s not easy) but I like to think of myself as fair so here are a few of her good traits.
Give me a second.
Just kidding. She’s amazing. She’s uber organized (hence, the perfect person to run an organizing company, Order Out of Chaos is fantastic), she’s a great mom, a devoted wife, a loving daughter. She sounds perfect, doesn’t she? Hard to compete with all that, especially as the older sister. But I digress.
Lauren is also a great cook, we share recipes all the time. Of course, she’s more of a from-scratch cook and I don’t mind shortcuts (for example, when bagged salads arrived on the scene I was an immediate adopter and she always makes homemade dressing) but on the whole the Waring sisters (our maiden name) can throw down in the kitchen. The biggest difference is that Lauren’s kitchen will be returned to pristine cleanliness within thirty minutes of dinner ending. In fact, I’ve watched her clean up as she’s cooking, and my kitchen … might have some remnants hanging around the next morning (pots clean better after soaking – I will die on that hill).
Along the cooking theme – here’s this week’s tip: buy the best cookware you can afford (All-Clad comes to mind) and treat those pots and pans like the goddesses they are (hand wash, towels between stacked pans to prevent scratching). This prevents the buildup of ticky-tacky scratched up cheap Teflon pans. I know how it works, you see a sparkling new twelve dollar sauce pan at Homegoods and just know your omelets will no longer stick if you just had that pan, so you buy it but then fail to throw out the old one. The accumulation seems slow but all of a sudden you are wrestling to get a skillet out of a motley stack that is the kitchen equivalent of ratty underwear. Treat yourself to good pans and you could even look forward to cooking. I might even go so far as to say that my All-Clan pans spark joy (wink wink).
As does Lauren. Sometimes. (I mean, all the time, right mom?)
So, who knew my mother would read my blog? But she did, and can I say she was not pleased with my … shall we say ‘characterization’ of my sister. I admit, I was a little heavy on the uptight aspects of Lauren (I mean, she’s my boss, that’s not easy) but I like to think of myself as fair so here are a few of her good traits.
Give me a second.
Just kidding. She’s amazing. She’s uber organized (hence, the perfect person to run an organizing company, Order Out of Chaos is fantastic), she’s a great mom, a devoted wife, a loving daughter. She sounds perfect, doesn’t she? Hard to compete with all that, especially as the older sister. But I digress.
Lauren is also a great cook, we share recipes all the time. Of course, she’s more of a from-scratch cook and I don’t mind shortcuts (for example, when bagged salads arrived on the scene I was an immediate adopter and she always makes homemade dressing) but on the whole the Waring sisters (our maiden name) can throw down in the kitchen. The biggest difference is that Lauren’s kitchen will be returned to pristine cleanliness within thirty minutes of dinner ending. In fact, I’ve watched her clean up as she’s cooking, and my kitchen … might have some remnants hanging around the next morning (pots clean better after soaking – I will die on that hill).
Along the cooking theme – here’s this week’s tip: buy the best cookware you can afford (All-Clad comes to mind) and treat those pots and pans like the goddesses they are (hand wash, towels between stacked pans to prevent scratching). This prevents the buildup of ticky-tacky scratched up cheap Teflon pans. I know how it works, you see a sparkling new twelve dollar sauce pan at Homegoods and just know your omelets will no longer stick if you just had that pan, so you buy it but then fail to throw out the old one. The accumulation seems slow but all of a sudden you are wrestling to get a skillet out of a motley stack that is the kitchen equivalent of ratty underwear. Treat yourself to good pans and you could even look forward to cooking. I might even go so far as to say that my All-Clad pans spark joy (wink wink).
As does Lauren. Sometimes. (I mean, all the time, right mom?)
