2010 Alphabet Soup

There are 52 weeks in the year, which is double the number of letters in the alphabet.  I remarked to Mary that we ought to do a weekly meal using a letter of the alphabet as the theme.  We'd hit each letter twice in a year.  She liked the idea, and so here we are.

There are no rules,only guidelines.  Ingredients or recipe names should start with the letter of the week.  Not all of the dishes in the meal need to conform to the alphabet theme.  That's it.

Why did we call the blog Cooking With Dog Hair?  See, we have three dogs.  Their hair ends up everywhere.  Floor, clothes, windows, and of course, our food.  It is impossible to cook anything in our house without including at least one stray dog hair.  We'll be stirring a simple curry - a single hair will waft down on top.  Icing a cake?  Dog hair.  Meatloaf?  Dog Hair.  You get the idea.

It sort of turned into a joke.  We try our best to keep everything clean.  We are fully aware of the dangers of food poisoning.  We wash our hands and cooking surfaces.  I sometimes resemble a character from an SNL skit.  But no matter what we do, or how careful we are, a dog hair will inevitably end up in our food.  C'est la vie.

So hopefully we'll make a weekly post to this blog with a description of the dishes we made.  Sometimes there will be pictures.  Hopefully we'll post recipes.  To avoid copyright problems, we'll probably just post links to the places we found them.  We tend to frequent All Recipes and Epicurious.  Alton Brown's recipes (or guidelines) also feature prominently.  But we often just wing it, in which case we can post the recipe however we'd like!

So read on and enjoy!  First stop: The letter A.