Tea, Fire and Boredom

Cooking Victory

Moving heavy boxes from Whitman to Mathey is tiring. Doing is about 7 times is more than 7 times as tiring. At least I got a good night’s sleep last night. Yuliya still owes me dinner XD.

Have you ever gone to a Japanese resturant and be the only one of the group to not order sushi for dinner?

While a summer long orgy of Hoagie Haven, Panera, and other take out food sounds like a good idea, I think that after a few weeks of their congealed, processed greasy, I might get a little bit tired of fast food. I spent some of the Memorial Day afternoon getting groceries and other supplies necessary for cooking. It didin’t help that many of the stores were closed for… well Memorial Day. I honored the holiday by exercising my only inalienable right, buy stuff, lots and lots of stuff. Who would have thought it would had been so hard to find a frying pan. But I succeeded, and found sufficient number of ingredients to cook. I fried up some vegetables and eggs and put it over cooked rice. Mmmmm tasty, and I didn’t have to order it from a counter. It’s quite interesting work cooking with only 1 pan, 1 spatula, 1 (very small) knife and 1 bowl. It does strip down the unnecessary tools of cooking. Who ever thought you could cook rice in an frying pan? I must admit, however, my style of preparing food is hardly considered sophisticated by any concievable stretch of the imagination. My meals are generally just named by a long list of ingredients that I have thrown into a pot or pan and cooked in their own juices. And usually this includes an excessive amount of onions. But stripping away the extra parts of preparing a meal reduces it to something more simple. I had less pots to clean. And my ingredients were (relatively) simple. Rice, egg, onion and asparagus (plus shoyu to taste). I’m looking forward as the summer goes on. While this is good, and I’ve prepared a tasty bento box for tomorrow, I will not eat this same dish ad nauseum (or I’ve just replaced take out with this one dish). Different and limited sets of ingredients breed creativity, desperation and sometimes coaxes the bent of brilliances.

Perhaps its like solving a puzzle. Each new day is a challenge to make something new and delicious. Or perhaps the fact that I find this event exciting enough to write about actually my complete idiocy of the subject, which would actually constitute a cooking Fail…