Food Weirdness

[liralen]

It's kind of weird. For the last few weeks, I've been kind of treating food as fuel. Something necessary but entirely bothersome.

Yes... the same person who makes lasagna by starting with the milk to make the cheese and flour to make the pasta, the same lady who's favorite thing to do is spend three hours at Rover's, who loves making stuff for three days for John's parties, who prides herself on her roast chickens, stuffed pork loin roasts, and full out rib roasts, who has fifty kinds of tea, twenty kinds of chocolate, and roasts her own coffee... is now eating energy bars, microwave oatmeal, pot pies, McDonald's, and Stouffer's because it doesn't take too long.

Ahem.

I'm not quite sure what snapped and how. I suspect that it was the writing that's been doing it.

Last night I think I came to my senses, and John and I made an eleven layer artichoke heart casserole. I think it was having Jet beg for *real* artichokes that kind of made my brain go spoing. He loves taking those things apart, and eating all the leaves and it's been quite a while since I've made them. Then, in the twelve minutes it took for Jet's macaroni and cheese to boil, I made a banana bread with Ghiradelli's bittersweet chips and sour Montmorency cherries... and took it with me to class and everyone fell over.

That was fun. I'd forgotten how nice it is to feed people stuff that makes them swoon. I'll blame stark_black's One Piece fics for reminding me, in a very nice way.

Not sure if I'm out of the woods, yet, and maybe this is why I've been losing the weight I have been. But I guess I gotta learn how to balance the writing obsession with the other parts of living.

Comments

[incandescens]

That sounds so very tasty.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin*

I think that it helped that the bread was still warm when I got there, so the bittersweet chocolate was melted to just that sinful texture of sweet rich, thick, smooth perfection. The tart, dried cherries offset the sweetness and lend their own texture. I have a special bread pan that's clay, and it does a great job of wicking moisture away from the crust, so it came out crisp and delicate, well browned with that flavor of browned butter...

[incandescens]

Clearly your shikai ability is to describe the food in such glorious detail that your opponents fall to the ground in helpless yearning. :)

(In other words, yum.)

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*falls over giggling and patpats her Zanpakutou in the shape of a Kershaw Shun Pro2 8 1/4 inch Deba knife...*

[incandescens]

Precisely!!!

[aelfsciene.livejournal.com]

That sounds...embarrassingly familiar, though it's when I'm too obsessed with playing World of Warcraft, not doing something productive like writing. I have nobody to keep me honest or to cook for, which doesn't help, but I am trying very hard not to stock the bad-quick foods that I tend to fall back on. Of course, this results in a night like last, when I basically had a few random snack foods for dinner. o.O

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yeah... that's kind of what made me go blink, too. I had dried mangos for lunch yesterday as I couldn't find anything else. Bah...

[melange428.livejournal.com]

If you are so inclined to post it, I would love to have that banana bread recipe! It sounds amazing.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*giggles* It's... uhm... a conglomeration of stuff and I didn't quite... uhm... measure the cherries and chocolate, just put in "enough"... but I'll try.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Recipe is now posted. :-)

[stark-black.livejournal.com]

:D Sounds delish. I love cooking for people too. *loves you*

[liralen.livejournal.com]

*grin* It's fun, isn't it? :-) *loves back happily*