Soup. Seriously.
I'm sitting here eating gazpacho. Which, to the educated, is a cold bread soup from Spain, involving garlic, olive oil, salt, vinegar - and the occasional tomato and random vegetable. To the uneducated who got lured in to an attractive cook-book picture and set out to buy out the grocery store on plum tomatoes, it turns out to be a pureed mild salsa that you eat like it's soup. Interesting. I don't hold the recipe responsible (it's not like I choose the peak season for tomatoes to do this) and I could see how in small doses the salsa-soup could be refreshing on a summer day. Be that as it may, I'm forcing down spoon fulls of it out of sheer obstinate determination to like it. It seems like such a good idea... sigh. It has made me learn a few things that I never knew though.
1) I own a blender. I knew this at one time actually, it was a hand-down from my sister two years ago, but I think within a day of storing it I forgot it existed. Cabinet exploration really is exciting. 2) This blender has a funny smell when run for long periods of time or at high speeds. The kind of smell that makes you look for smoke. Did that stop me? Heavens no. I forged ahead. 3) It is important to re-tighten the bottom of the blender every time you do a batch, or risk tomato juice oozing out the bottom. My exact mental thought at the time: "hmm. I'm pretty sure thats not supposed to happen." 4) Anyone that survives cutting an onion with all of their fingers intact has directly experienced divine intervention. 5) I do not have the patience to force eight cups of tomato-vegetable mixture through a sieve with a spoon. Forget it. 6) Édith Piaf, Marilyn Monroe, Norah Jones, Nat King Cole and a touch of Van Morrison makes for good cooking music, and practically requires you to drink wine while you cook. I already knew that though. Sidenote: I didn't drink any wine, because I've recently learned something very disturbing: you have to polish off a bottle of wine within a few days of opening it or it goes sour. Shocking, but true. When I become an alcoholic or I stop caring about pouring out half a bottle, I may change my cooking habits.
I think thats all I learned. In the coming days I may be able to add one more to the list - 7) This is how (not?) to dispose of 2 gallons of salsa-soup: _____.
1) I own a blender. I knew this at one time actually, it was a hand-down from my sister two years ago, but I think within a day of storing it I forgot it existed. Cabinet exploration really is exciting. 2) This blender has a funny smell when run for long periods of time or at high speeds. The kind of smell that makes you look for smoke. Did that stop me? Heavens no. I forged ahead. 3) It is important to re-tighten the bottom of the blender every time you do a batch, or risk tomato juice oozing out the bottom. My exact mental thought at the time: "hmm. I'm pretty sure thats not supposed to happen." 4) Anyone that survives cutting an onion with all of their fingers intact has directly experienced divine intervention. 5) I do not have the patience to force eight cups of tomato-vegetable mixture through a sieve with a spoon. Forget it. 6) Édith Piaf, Marilyn Monroe, Norah Jones, Nat King Cole and a touch of Van Morrison makes for good cooking music, and practically requires you to drink wine while you cook. I already knew that though. Sidenote: I didn't drink any wine, because I've recently learned something very disturbing: you have to polish off a bottle of wine within a few days of opening it or it goes sour. Shocking, but true. When I become an alcoholic or I stop caring about pouring out half a bottle, I may change my cooking habits.
I think thats all I learned. In the coming days I may be able to add one more to the list - 7) This is how (not?) to dispose of 2 gallons of salsa-soup: _____.
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