I would be selected against
Tuesday, August 24, 2004
If Darwin could have it his way, I think I would have exited the human race already.
Let’s imagine a world where there were no restaurants or fast food joints. What if there were no frozen foods or microwavable meals? What if we were forced to cook for ourselves at every meal?!? I think I would die. I mean, literally. So it’s been a little over a week of me trying to fend for myself now. Let me say, the culinary experience has been found severely lacking when I cook for myself. It was so much easier when Kimi was around. Even if we didn’t know how to make stuff, we’d just make it up! Now, I can’t exactly do that. It seems I lack a second opinion or the stress of a bunch of people coming over in about 20 minutest to force me to make a decision about whether oregano *really* goes into that or not.
I just don’t have the budget to experiment. I miss Cardenas market so much! For less than a dollar, I could get at least a goodly amount of 3 different types of produce. Here? I can’t even buy one produce item for less than $4! Cardenas! I miiissssss yoouuuuu!
BUT today was a little different. I actually cooked something that was healthy AND good. Well, actually, “cook” is a strong word for what transpired in my kitchen. How about “assembled?” Maybe that’s more accurate. Anyway, I had a good square meal! Vegetables, fruit and meat! Yay! If I could only do this every day…
I also went out and bought some kind of ground beef. I really hope I didn’t get the sucky parts of the cow (wherever that may be…). Anyway, I remember the tales that Max and Vince used to tell me of their days at UNC, cooking for themselves every night. They would get their lump of ground beef and make ultra thin patties divided by wax paper and then stick the whole lot into the freezer. This enabled them to grab individual, easily thaw-able portions of ground beef on the fly. Genius! It’s very similar to the rice freezing trick I learned from Yasuyo.
So to all those people who ever taught me anything about cooking, the one’s for you! Because of you, I will NOT be selected against! …Or at least it’ll take longer for it to get to me.
When I went through that cook-for-yourself phase my favorie recipe was:
Beef Ambrosia
1 lb ground beef (or turkey, or squirrel)
1 bell pepper
1/3 of an onion
a few TBS of oil
a few TBS of black pepper
a few TBS of soy saucemix it all together and cook it for awhile. Serve with rice, obviously.
Posted by Jimbo on 08/25 at 03:38 AMThanks Jimbo! I’ll definitely give it a try. Probably in a couple of minutes! heheh Here comes lunch! Mmmmm Squirrel. Good thing central park is close by…
Posted by on 08/25 at 07:49 AMsimple olive oil, some sprinkles of salt, and some sprinkles of pepper can be put on pretty much any kind of meat you wanna pan fry. super easy and tasty! :D
Posted by Slim on 08/25 at 07:52 PMsweet tapdancing mary, that cutout of dubya is scarier than a bikini model wearing a clown mask. i nearly done soiled mahself, maw.
on the topic, lemme dredge up my recipe for tofu and vegetables murdered with oil. mmmmmmmm. unless i left it in sacramento. awwwwwwwww.
Posted by on 09/14 at 08:51 PM