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I'm in a rather unexpected position. I have to lose weight for these dance performances because ... well I was already okay in the weight department but dancers are dangerously skinny. Even tango dancers are a little bit sunken in and ribby. I don't want to be the fattest chick on stage. So I thought that if I just ate my own cooking I would lose weight. The only problem with this is ... I'm ... apparently ... a really good cook. I'm as surprised as you are. Last night I made this RIDICULOUS pasta dish. The point was to make a ton and save it. So I made a ton. And I had my teensy little dish ... which was delicious. And then I ended up going back for thirds. I don't think I terribly overate but ... omg so yummy.
And I really want fish but I have a similar problem with that. For fish the only way to get portions of it cheap is to buy the entire salmon or tuna and barring that to get a very large portion. During the summer my cousins usually send me extra salmon (and thanks to them I have tasted the delicacies of half salmon half trout as well as hermaphrodite salmon), but during the winter I'm on my own. In addition salmon and tuna are both very large and somewhat protected species, so even though I find them hopelessly delicious I only want to eat so much of them. I also want things like shrimp, squid, and smaller fish species. But again, freaky expensive and ... you usually have to get them in large portions. And because it's fish I can't cook a bunch of it and put it aside. It has to be eaten or it goes bad. And also ... my fish cooking skills are crazy good. labor intensive but ... omnomnom. It's weird too because with meat it's kinda a tossup whether it's going to be delicious or barely edible, but with fish ... homerun every time.
Which actually brings me to another point. There's only three types of meat readily available in this country. And I'm sick of them. I have this great recipe for rabbit but ... I'd have to go to a special place and spend epic money to get that or beg one off of one of my hunter friends. Although ... I have a feeling if I just told one of my hunter friends, they'd bag one for me and just require that I give them some of the final product. Which ... if it's a big enough rabbit for them to take a shot at, it's big enough to feed two people at least. The other thing though is I can butcher a chicken, but I can't butcher a rabbit. And frankly my butchering skills suck. I usually make a mess of it. I really should just use the cleaver.
My other issue with animal protein is cats think it is awesome. And they think it is awesomest raw. So I yell at them whenever they reach for it when I'm cutting it up, but ... they're cats. They'll do whatever they damned well pleased. So that's an extra amount of awareness I have to have. You know ... aside from the whole boobie trapping my front door.
Which reminds me. I still haven't caught whoever's lurking, but the other night I smelled cologne. I'm a little weirded out that anyone who takes to hiding in the bushes would wear cologne because ... that's a little counter-intuitive, but it was rather thick smelling. I'm not terribly scared because anyone who wears that much cologne doesn't know what they're doing and ... hehehe ... I do, but ... what kinda person has enough time to ... go out in the middle of the night and ... be weird? Does this guy not have a day job? I thought for a bit that it was sensory misdirection and matrixing, but ... olfactory stimulus is more reliable than anything else. So having smelled that ... I still want more evidence but I no longer believe this is just psychological misfire.
And I really want fish but I have a similar problem with that. For fish the only way to get portions of it cheap is to buy the entire salmon or tuna and barring that to get a very large portion. During the summer my cousins usually send me extra salmon (and thanks to them I have tasted the delicacies of half salmon half trout as well as hermaphrodite salmon), but during the winter I'm on my own. In addition salmon and tuna are both very large and somewhat protected species, so even though I find them hopelessly delicious I only want to eat so much of them. I also want things like shrimp, squid, and smaller fish species. But again, freaky expensive and ... you usually have to get them in large portions. And because it's fish I can't cook a bunch of it and put it aside. It has to be eaten or it goes bad. And also ... my fish cooking skills are crazy good. labor intensive but ... omnomnom. It's weird too because with meat it's kinda a tossup whether it's going to be delicious or barely edible, but with fish ... homerun every time.
Which actually brings me to another point. There's only three types of meat readily available in this country. And I'm sick of them. I have this great recipe for rabbit but ... I'd have to go to a special place and spend epic money to get that or beg one off of one of my hunter friends. Although ... I have a feeling if I just told one of my hunter friends, they'd bag one for me and just require that I give them some of the final product. Which ... if it's a big enough rabbit for them to take a shot at, it's big enough to feed two people at least. The other thing though is I can butcher a chicken, but I can't butcher a rabbit. And frankly my butchering skills suck. I usually make a mess of it. I really should just use the cleaver.
My other issue with animal protein is cats think it is awesome. And they think it is awesomest raw. So I yell at them whenever they reach for it when I'm cutting it up, but ... they're cats. They'll do whatever they damned well pleased. So that's an extra amount of awareness I have to have. You know ... aside from the whole boobie trapping my front door.
Which reminds me. I still haven't caught whoever's lurking, but the other night I smelled cologne. I'm a little weirded out that anyone who takes to hiding in the bushes would wear cologne because ... that's a little counter-intuitive, but it was rather thick smelling. I'm not terribly scared because anyone who wears that much cologne doesn't know what they're doing and ... hehehe ... I do, but ... what kinda person has enough time to ... go out in the middle of the night and ... be weird? Does this guy not have a day job? I thought for a bit that it was sensory misdirection and matrixing, but ... olfactory stimulus is more reliable than anything else. So having smelled that ... I still want more evidence but I no longer believe this is just psychological misfire.