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

[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?