Spamming LJ in preparation of doing something useful, rsn

[rolanni]

My usual work-a-day lunch is some variation of brown rice with veggies, nuked in the Departmental Xerox Machine (more commonly known as the Microwave; somewhere along the road, Steve and I started referring to our microwave as the Xerox Machine, and that, as they say, was the kiss of death.). In any case, lunch is usually nutritious, but Unexciting. At home, Steve is the cook because he's 'waaaay better at it, and likes it*, and that! is why I (usually) do the dishes.

So, but, today. Today, Steve's at SRM Galactic Headquarters, and I'm supposedly at home writing (yes, yes, in just a minute; I promise!), and thus needed to produce a lunch. We had a bit of too-ripe tomato, chopped, and the ever-present brown rice. I was in my own kitchen and I know where Hexapuma keeps the frying pan.

Poured some olive oil into the pan, and swirled it around until the bottom was coated, threw in the chopped tomato, a generous spoonful of chopped garlic, dried cranberries**, rice, and some canned pinto beans, stirred until it smelled wonderful, added a teaspoon of hoysin sauce, stirred some more, decanted it all into a pretty green and blue and cream pottery bowl -- goodness, what a good lunch! I may have to take a frying pan to work.***

In other news, I really do need to get something useful done, having frittered away my morning reading a graphic novel and viewing excerpts from True Blood on YouTube (Jeebers, what a terrible show). I also have some dried beans that I need to put to soak. Mmmmm, bean soup.

I'm opening the Ghost Ship file now.

No, really, I am.


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*It's not that I dislike cooking. I love to make soup, and I greatly admire stirring things around in a frying pan. It's astonishing how much food you can actually prepare using only these two techniques.

**What? They were sitting right there on the counter. Seriously, it's amazing how well dried cranberries go with -- everything I've put them in, actually.

***...on second thought...

Comments

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Methinks that if you take the frying pan into work, it will be dented due to involuntary skull application.

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

From what you write about the acadaemians with whom you deal, Rolanni, I have to second this.

[kimuro.livejournal.com]

The books are MUCH better than the HBO series. Really. The tv series suffers too much from sensationalism and dumbing down and .. dumb stuff that really makes no sense whatsoever as far as I can tell.

Although, to be fair, I stopped watching in the first season when things started diverging too annoyingly from the book. It may have gotten better. But I doubt it.

And this saddens me.

[baggette.livejournal.com]

Unless you are taking a cast iron frying pan to work, its not worth the effort or possible consequences of accidental or incidental application to objects other than food.

[(Anonymous)]

All 8 pieces of well seasoned cast iron cookware disposed of nearly 20 years ago in favor of glass and teflon coated skillets. And for someone who grew up in the South with a LARGE pot of bacon grease on the side of the stove, that was a bit of a shock!

[(Anonymous)]

At work, we call our photocopier 'Mother'. Some of us are Aliens fans, and our photocopier is just as temperamental.

At home, my husband is also cook and I gratefully do the dishes.

Um, yes; I did wonder about the cranberries.

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Contrary to others, I think a frying pan at the office, tastefully displayed in the workspace, might be helpful. I mean, when people are being somewhat less than sensible, a glance at the frying pan, or the somewhat stronger suggestion of picking it up and putting it down closer... this could be the emphasis that you need. You don't actually have to apply it to dense skulls, but the hint that you might...

[muehe.livejournal.com]

Ahh, a new interpretation of the knife in the block of wood.

[(Anonymous)]

That is what I was thinking too. --Susan

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Isn't it amazing how real life reflects good fiction?

[mardott.livejournal.com]

Welcome to my world.* The cranberries were a great idea! And leftovers are the best thing to take to work.

*www.mealsbymarlene.blogspot.com
('Tis true, the posts have fallen off recently, but I promise, the blog is not dead)