Monday, July 18, 2005
(6:45 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
I can sometimes cook
Today I made the fabled Kotsko Sandwich: grilled cheese with mushrooms, onions, and banana peppers. Delicious.This evening I made a variant on the Monica Bennett Pasta Dish. (We had a standing argument over whether this dish constituted a "recipe," since she made it up spur of the moment. I'm lucky she doesn't read the blog anymore.) The "sauce" is a mixture of various vegetables, in this case mushrooms, onions, green peppers (she originally used red), and sauteed artichoke hearts. I didn't make enough sauce to correspond to all the pasta; additionally, I neglected to add spinach, and the lack of red peppers dealt a crushing blow to overall presentation. Still, it tastes pretty good to me.
I am a functional vegetarian anymore. The only meat I ever have is hotdogs sometimes, because I used to eat a lot of hot dogs as a kid and I like to savor the bittersweet taste of The Same Damn Thing as I spend another summer afternoon in the house, playing at reading a book. I also sometimes get meat if I'm eating out, but I don't have a strong preference -- at the Thai place down the street, I almost always get the curry with tofu.
On an unrelated note, I think that the wrist pain that I've felt sometimes recently might have as much to do with my daily push-up regimen as with my intense typing. Further investigations are pending.
