Various Happenstances of Seth

October 28, 2005

   It's been an interesting month for food. Many experiments. Some successes. Some failures. Where to begin?

   Perhaps with an explanation of the climate in which I create. I have a kitchen, reasonably sized, and a pantry, with shelves filled with boxes and cans, and a refrigerator. The fridge, oddly, rarely has very much food in it. When it does have a lot of food in it, most of it tends to belong to my housemate. Said housemate has a fairly low opinion of my cooking ability*, and charges that I am pleased with myself whenever I manage to cook something edible. In one sense, I suppose she's right; I like eating tasty food, so when I cook tasty food, I am pleased. Like when I make my standard burritos, which are nothing exceptional, but still very tasty.

   In defense of my culinary talents, I argued that she had agreed that the delicious squash and zuchinni quiche with insta-croissant crust I had made the previous month was very tasty. But this was not accepted as sufficient prove. So I was forced to argue from the other direction, namely that I am someone who experiments with food, and I can tell a successful experiment from a failure.

   She was unconvinced.

   However, for your visual digestion, I hereby shall list a few of the fooded experiments that have taken place in the past month:

• Pineapple chicken bean burritos - Delicious success, but an unsurprising one, given that burritos are tasty and all ingredients play well together.
  
  
• Bacon and onion tempura - Tasty success as regards tempura pieces that contained both bacon and onion, but failure as regards bacon-only tempura.
  
  
• Cajun tuna fish with beans and rice - Complete and utter failure. Yuck.
  
  
• Pineapple coconut crab ice cream - Mild failure. The mixture was fairly tasty, but by the time it froze, it had lost a lot of the sweetness, plus the coconut flakes didn't get added. Still ice cream, but many better ice creams were made.
  
  
• Molasses oatmeal - Doesn't sound like an exotic combination, but I wasn't really familiar with molasses so I poured in way too much. I tried to add another serving of oats and water to compensate, but in addition to being insufficient to counterbalance the molasses, this made for a gross consistency of oatmeal resulting in failure.
  
  
• Crab broccoli cheese dip - Technically, failure as a dip, but only because I had nothing around the house to dip in it. Mild success as a food because it was tasty when I ate it plain.

    Meanwhilst, NaNoWriMo starts very soon, and I still don't have any plot ideas except for the very opening scene, which won't even take me through my first day of writing. Not that I've been updating this terribly frequently, but you can expect even less frequency in November, as ostensibly, I'll be writing.**

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