{"id":134,"date":"2010-01-31T01:04:14","date_gmt":"2010-01-31T01:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pechism.org\/?p=134"},"modified":"2010-01-31T03:22:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-31T03:22:15","slug":"ambitious-but-still-crappy-with-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"Ambitious, But Still Crappy with a Camera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the States!\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 (Maybe?)<\/p>\n<p>I arrived home at about 9 pm on Thursday evening, all sorts of sniffily both from my cold and from being sad about departing London.\u00a0 Fortunately, the Blackberry and PS3 that awaited me provided the necessary moral support.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who watches <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barefootcontessa.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Ina Garten<\/strong><\/a> knows Friday night is roast chicken night, and dang nabbit, I&#8217;ll be no exception!\u00a0 I happen to love roasting chickens, and I was severely in the mood for some comfort food.\u00a0 All I needed was some Scotch to complete the meal (well, technically I had a Bloody Mary, a martini, and then wine&#8230;).<\/p>\n<p>However, for someone fresh off the plane, complete with cold (which as I type has morphed into a chesty cough), perhaps the menu I decided upon was a bit too ambitious.\u00a0 The PS3 in the living room was also taunting me.\u00a0 I made:\u00a0 herb bread, cream of wild mushroom soup, a roast chicken, and praline mousse.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-134 gallery-columns-4 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/herbbread.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/herbbread-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mushsoup.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mushsoup-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chicken.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chicken-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chicken-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/chicken.jpg 558w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mousse01.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/mousse01-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the States!\u00a0 Yay!\u00a0 (Maybe?) I arrived home at about 9 pm on Thursday evening, all sorts of sniffily both from my cold and from being sad about departing London.\u00a0 Fortunately, the Blackberry and PS3 that awaited me provided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/?p=134\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cookery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pechism.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}