green beans, question mark
tonight i cook dinner for C. he's not picky and i'm not trying anything totally new or too hard, so everything should come out okay. the menu is: oven fried butter chicken, rosemary potatoes and green beans. i have not decided how i will prepare the green beans. my natural inclination is to simply sautee them with liberal amounts of butter, but i think i want to avoid conversations about heart attacks. so perhaps i'll steam them...but that's not particularly interesting. i could add nuts or something, but this is supposed to be a southern meal and i don't want to do the yuppy-pine-nuts thing. don't get me wrong, i am not categorically against the yuppy-pine-nutting of traditionally non-gourmet food, i just don't want to do it in this instance. hmmm...i really don't know how to keep the veggies light, but interesting (if YOU do, then let me know).
but here's the other reason i bought the menu up. it has a dual purpose, you see. this meal is also about making a point. C is from louisville, kentucky. that's right, his home town is also the home town of the ken-tucky derby. and yet he claims it is not southern but *midwestern*.
now, i've never been to louisville but i do know it is pronounced "Louavull" by natives (including C, although he has no accent otherwise) and that seems to me to be about all the evidence one should need. midwesterners sharpen consonants and punctuate syllables. they don't add vowels, rounding out the edges of even unpretty words.
louisville not the south? as the march hare would say, "don't let's be silly."
but here's the other reason i bought the menu up. it has a dual purpose, you see. this meal is also about making a point. C is from louisville, kentucky. that's right, his home town is also the home town of the ken-tucky derby. and yet he claims it is not southern but *midwestern*.
now, i've never been to louisville but i do know it is pronounced "Louavull" by natives (including C, although he has no accent otherwise) and that seems to me to be about all the evidence one should need. midwesterners sharpen consonants and punctuate syllables. they don't add vowels, rounding out the edges of even unpretty words.
louisville not the south? as the march hare would say, "don't let's be silly."