25 June 2001
She'll take my login away from me eventually and I'll be forced to make my own blog...
Until she does though...
Last time I was complaining about those women who have that "do-what-I-say" smile, but there's another type of person that I know a lot of people hate. The effortless over-achievers. Those people who watch while others struggle to do something new and then make it look so easy when they attempt it for the first time having noticed all the pitfalls and possible mistakes.
That's a round-about way of saying that I actually cooked for pretty much the first time last night,(Barring student food of course, omlettes, beans on toast, frozen pizzas, etc) and had to fight off house-mates all attracted by the smell of real cooking. The strangest thing about it is that it wasn't really what I've thought of as "cooking", more a case of heating and assembling different ingredients.
I was half-watching some cooking program, and I tend to loathe cooking programs, but this one was Rick Stein in Goa where it appears every dish prepared requires red onions, masala paste, tiger prawns garlic and ginger. Are those the main exports of Goa? Anyway, he showed a fast and refreshing salad comprised of skined and sliced cucumber soaked in fresh lime juice and coated in sea salt.
Easy.
Add four slender chicken breasts cooked in lemon and lime juice and I had my dinner on the hottest day so far this year in London.
Between the kitchen and my room a quarter of the salad and one chicken breast had been eaten when word got out how tasty and refreshing it was. I was assailed on all sides by house-mates whom I knew weren't eating because they were hungry as they'd eaten one of my frozen pizzas not long before but rather because it really was tasty. I didn't know yet because I had yet to taste it and had my hands full of plate and cutlery.
A word to the wise. If you're good at something, hide it well, only do it to your fullest abilities when there's no chance of being seen or caught. Otherwise you end being asked to make a Goan salad and chicken dinner for seven. Maybe I'll add cayenne and masala paste this time though...
D is currently enjoying Startopia, Wheatus and air conditioning.
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