There's a Chinese saying that goes "A loser in love, a winner in casinos." It simply means that the good fortune you lack in one aspect in life will be compensated in others. Well
We've all heard about this growing up, that the adult life is all about responsibilities. "Pfff, whatever
They say that comedy is tragedy plus time. They say that there's a very thin line, separating laughter and pain
Oh mah God
Let me cut to the chase with this one. Because along with what has officially come as the "holiday/party season", also came a bubbling frenzy of ideas that harasses my otherwise unambitious nature to just relax through it all. I mean really, really self-tormenting thoughts, such as the fixation on the idea of a Christmas goose (goose!
Do you have things that you tried and tried and tried making, and it. Just. Doesn't. Work? In the kitchen, I call them my culinary nemesis, and they can be summed up by two words, "chewy" and "layers". You whisper these words to my ears in the middle of the night
Yesterday, I spent a good deal of effort in the kitchen, not just on the usual manual labor I do driven by unknown impulses, but on trying to draw the very blurred line on practicality/doability when it comes to home-cooking, which I have slowly come to realize to having a very different definition than the general public. Well, I suspect not having a day-job has something to do with it, but really though, what do people consider worth-the-effort when the grunt work is to be done by their own hands in their own kitchen? Since I have proclaimed to be an extremely biased and unrepresentative judge on such matters, you can understand my mental struggle while I was putting this together yesterday. I mean, there's a reason why the corner of this recipe in Thomas Keller's French Laundry Cookbook has been folded for years without due until yesterday when I was struck by temporary insanity. I thought, who else in their right state of mind would want to do this? The same amount of time and effort spent on slicing potatoes super thin, laminating it with a sprig of herb then baked until golden brown and crispy, is only publicly
Season-transitioning flu