My wife, Emily, picks movies from time to time for us to watch that are ... well, let's just leave it that I would not pick them. The other night she announced that she and her sister Kathie who lives with us were going up to watch Julie & Julia which is about a young woman named Julie who decides to cook her way through the recipes in Julia Childs' Art of French Cooking by preparing a different recipe every day. Since I have long been in a secret and one sided love affair with Meryl Streep I decided to give it a go. I made it most of the way through before I lost it and went downstairs to play banjo with my son Charlie. The movie has some very funny parts - particularly the bit where the comedian is imitating Julia Childs cutting her finger while cooking on TV. I was glad to see that Hollywood could actually make a movie about a married couple who were in love with each other. I am not sure about Julie and her husband, but Julia and her man were clearly in love.
Anyway, this blog is not a movie review site. I am starting it because J&J has inspired me to take a shot at a similar concept except from a slightly different angle. I love to cook stuff on the grill and my family and friends love to eat what I cook so... Starting today, I am going to grill my way through Weber's Art of the Grill cookbook. Our son, Steve, is getting married July 29 on an island in NJ which means we will be spending a week at the beach in July which means we will be doing a lot of grilling! The goal is to cook all of the recipes in the Weber book between now and July 29. I am starting Feb 1 so I will be grilling in some pretty interesting weather conditions but that never stops us here in Wisconsin!
Today's recipe is the first in the book - Prosciutto-Wrapped Shrimp. We will see if the prosciutto helps or hurts the grilled shrimp. Off to the store to buy some prosciutto!
Mark
