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Jan. 28th, 2005 07:48 pmThree random thoughts.
1. I need to put the little tag with my name up on my mailbox. It's been weeks now since maintenance finally got around to putting a door on mine, dug up from some other mailbox somewhere. But the tag on my mailbox now says 'Battle' and I kind of like the sentiment.
2. Last week I watched a Nero Wolfe episode where Wolfe asks a girl if she knows how to scramble eggs. She says, "Of course!" He says, "Then I shall prepare my 45 minute scrambled eggs for you in the morning." "It doesn't take 45 minutes to make scrambled eggs!" a beat. "I know you didn't know how to do it properly. I have come to realize that this exchange is really just symbolism for the way my hairdresser and I dry hair.
3. You can tell a book by it's cover. If it's a cookbook anyway. You will never cook something from a hardback cookbook. You will look at the pictures and think how fantastic it looks and sounds. But the 11 steps and ingredients like star anise and lemongrass will keep you from attempting it. On the other hand, any cookbook that has a spiral binding is obviously meant to open to a page and stay that way. These recipes will be easy and useful and that cookbook will be your cooking bible. Softcover cookbooks are somewhere inbetween. Mildly difficult, but not impossible. These are for impressing people, and are usually ethnic foods. At least, this is my experience.
1. I need to put the little tag with my name up on my mailbox. It's been weeks now since maintenance finally got around to putting a door on mine, dug up from some other mailbox somewhere. But the tag on my mailbox now says 'Battle' and I kind of like the sentiment.
2. Last week I watched a Nero Wolfe episode where Wolfe asks a girl if she knows how to scramble eggs. She says, "Of course!" He says, "Then I shall prepare my 45 minute scrambled eggs for you in the morning." "It doesn't take 45 minutes to make scrambled eggs!" a beat. "I know you didn't know how to do it properly. I have come to realize that this exchange is really just symbolism for the way my hairdresser and I dry hair.
3. You can tell a book by it's cover. If it's a cookbook anyway. You will never cook something from a hardback cookbook. You will look at the pictures and think how fantastic it looks and sounds. But the 11 steps and ingredients like star anise and lemongrass will keep you from attempting it. On the other hand, any cookbook that has a spiral binding is obviously meant to open to a page and stay that way. These recipes will be easy and useful and that cookbook will be your cooking bible. Softcover cookbooks are somewhere inbetween. Mildly difficult, but not impossible. These are for impressing people, and are usually ethnic foods. At least, this is my experience.
