Have you seen the movie Ratatouille? Do you know the part where the critic tastes the ratatouille? He takes that first bite and is immediately transformed to his childhood when his mother served him the ratatouille that would define for him what ratatouille should taste like. I never had ratatouille as a child, or at least not that I can recall, but I want to make ratatouille that tastes like that.
I know it's silly taking inspiration from a Disney movie about a rat that can cook, but something about that dish and the critic's reaction to it just makes me want to be capable of doing the same thing. This isn't impossible. Take pizza making for example.
I started making pizza, ...well actually back in high school or just after. It wasn't great it was just pizza. I began the process of perfecting pizza making in the early 90's and by the time the double aughts rolled around I had in fact perfected my pizza skills and to this day I make a pizza that people have been known to request in advance of visiting me, or I them.
So ratatouille can be perfected and I will perfect it. I will be that little rat and I will make a ratatouille that transforms you through time to your child hood and recalls you're first ratatouille.. or at least brings tears of ratatouille joy to your eyes.
Last night I made ratatouille and it was... disappointing. Not horrible. But not the kind of meal you would ask me to make again. Unfortunately for my wife and daughter they will have to experience ratatouille again and again as I evolve the way I make it so as to reach my goal.
Hopefully the ingredients for my ratatouille will eventually come from my own garden. Imagine vegetables from the soil I've tilled... prepared and cooked in a recipe of pure ratatouille perfection. What more could I possibly ask of life?
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