{"id":45,"date":"2013-05-20T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T23:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/?page_id=45"},"modified":"2013-05-31T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:39:30","slug":"confessions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/confessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Confessions"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>I don&#8217;t like fresh raw tomatoes. I love them cooked, sauced, dried, in salsa (even fairly fresh), but I don&#8217;t like them in salads or on sandwiches. My dear friend Sue grows these gorgeous heirloom tomatoes, and I&#8217;ll eat a tiny bite or two while suppressing my gag reflex, but that&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<li>I use bottled lime juice with abandon. See <a title=\"Pantry Must-Haves\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/pantry-must-haves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pantry Must-Haves<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I drink when I&#8217;m cooking for real. First of all, if I&#8217;m opening a bottle of wine for a dish, I&#8217;ve GOT to make sure it&#8217;s drinkable, right? But also, it relaxes me and keeps me from stressing about a minor substitution or even a major missing ingredient. I think it also opens that creative valve, maybe inspiring me to throw in that extra jalapeno or a surprise herb or an extra 1\/2c of chocolate chips?<\/li>\n<li>I HAVE fished grilled veggies and meat out of the coals, brushed them off, and served them. See &#8220;I drink&#8221; above.<\/li>\n<li>I have ALSO dropped raw ingredients on the floor, rinsed them off, and threw them in the pot. Guilty, too, of dropping a large hunk of cooked meat on the floor, rinsing it off, re-saucing, and serving it. Out of sight of the guests, of course.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m always a little worried if the dog won&#8217;t eat it.<\/li>\n<li>If I post a picture with only one plate, don&#8217;t worry, my husband probably already grabbed his and started eating. He&#8217;s not patient about my food porn.<\/li>\n<li>I eat raw cookie dough. Cake batter, too. My feeling is, if it doesn&#8217;t taste good raw, it might not be so tasty once it&#8217;s cooked.<\/li>\n<li>I love watching The Real Housewives of Orange County. And The Weather Channel when a good weather event is ongoing (obsessively).<\/li>\n<li>I have a NUMBER of epic fails. Once I get a decent backlog of tasty posts, I&#8217;ll start to post some of these beauties too.<\/li>\n<li>My freezer is full of ziploc bags of goodies. Check out my <a title=\"Ziploc Pumpkin Curry\" href=\"http:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/31\/ziploc-pumpkin-curry\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ziploc Pumpkin Curry<\/a> for an example of how I used up some of these leftovers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t like fresh raw tomatoes. I love them cooked, sauced, dried, in salsa (even fairly fresh), but I don&#8217;t like them in salads or on sandwiches. My dear friend Sue grows these gorgeous heirloom tomatoes, and I&#8217;ll eat a tiny bite or two while suppressing my gag reflex, but that&#8217;s it. I use bottled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-45","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4ImYM-J","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/45\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michellematlack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}