I can cook! Beloved however...
Sep. 13th, 2009 12:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sparkindarknessI'm actually reassesing my cooking skills and habits with a a considerable nod towards removing some mental baggage that needs to be cut away asap. More musings later.
Anyway, tonight was spicey chilli garlic chicken chow mein (home made noodles. Nom) which is, unsurprisingly, a spicy meal (as in it has lots of flavours mingling together for spicy nomminess. NOT it's so hot that it's physically impossible to taste anything. What is the point? I mean, I like spicy - but hot for the sake of hotness? Food that actually HURTS? What is this madness?)
The phone rings - which, during a stir fry, is annoying. I leave Beloved to take over. I come back, taste and...
Me: AAARGH *chokes on inedibleness* what did you do?
Beloved: NOTHING! *innocent look. So you know he's guilty*
Me: You had to add one ingredient! ONE.
Beloved: And I did! 1 tablespoon of black pepper.
Me: A PINCH of black pepper. And that's a desert spoon.
Beloved: Well I can't read your writing
Me: Why would ANY recipe have a tablespoon of black pepper in it? *boggles* What are you making? Torquemada's Confession Confection?
Beloved: *sulks*
The black pepper may have been redeemable (unlikely). But black pepper, garlic, chillies and chilli sauce? *sigh*
Of course, I can't bring myself to throw away a wok full of stir fry. I hate wasting food. So it's there, in the fridge, being completely inedible. It will stay there until it rots enough for me too feel less guilty about throwing it away. Because this is SENSIBLE. Yes, yes it is.
Anyway, tonight was spicey chilli garlic chicken chow mein (home made noodles. Nom) which is, unsurprisingly, a spicy meal (as in it has lots of flavours mingling together for spicy nomminess. NOT it's so hot that it's physically impossible to taste anything. What is the point? I mean, I like spicy - but hot for the sake of hotness? Food that actually HURTS? What is this madness?)
The phone rings - which, during a stir fry, is annoying. I leave Beloved to take over. I come back, taste and...
Me: AAARGH *chokes on inedibleness* what did you do?
Beloved: NOTHING! *innocent look. So you know he's guilty*
Me: You had to add one ingredient! ONE.
Beloved: And I did! 1 tablespoon of black pepper.
Me: A PINCH of black pepper. And that's a desert spoon.
Beloved: Well I can't read your writing
Me: Why would ANY recipe have a tablespoon of black pepper in it? *boggles* What are you making? Torquemada's Confession Confection?
Beloved: *sulks*
The black pepper may have been redeemable (unlikely). But black pepper, garlic, chillies and chilli sauce? *sigh*
Of course, I can't bring myself to throw away a wok full of stir fry. I hate wasting food. So it's there, in the fridge, being completely inedible. It will stay there until it rots enough for me too feel less guilty about throwing it away. Because this is SENSIBLE. Yes, yes it is.