My journal badly deserves an update and this entry doesn't do it any justice...
...but in trivial news, I just made my finest attempt today in being a good Ecuadorian wife (!). (er...um, yeah.)I just finished making consome de pollo with a main dish of sango de camarones con mani y coco...I will of course need to fritar some patacones and then maybe top it off with some fresh pineapple juice...and then wala! a complete tropical-style meal.
Cooking is actually kind of fun sometimes, when one puts aside thy reservations and paranoia about domesticity and housewifery...and now that I have (at least temporarily) put aside such long-standing phobias about domestic drudgery, I will share that I truly think the food processor is indeed one of the greatest inventions on the planet. Sure makes those daily tasks of picando tomate, cebolla y pimiento much easier.
And being that I am not a member of the upper-class (who merely assign such tasks to their empleados), nor do I desire to replicate lower-class life Ecuadorian life here in the U.S. (who spend at least half of the day preparing food, cooking food, or cleaning up food - remember, DVD players may be universal, but refrigerators, freezers, and microwaves are most certainly not)...I am discovering that such seemingly trivilous toys are indeed useful...if one does not want to go the American route of circumventing long cooking times by replacing them with frozen, pre-fab, or Costco sauce-in-a-box food.
Nevertheless, there is something to said for all of those convenience foods...as I truly believe that once could make the claim that convenience foods and tools are and have been the key to our so-called, "class-less, egalitarian" society...For while we as Americans may cry foul at other countries (such as the one I know so well) where the class system is well, not so covert, we sometimes forget that our own society would fall flat on its face had we not our breakfasts-in-a-bottle, microwavable ramen lunches, and lean cuisine chicken delights, much less microwaves, freezers, and food processors. Because there's absolutely no way two people can work out of the home, and still eat freshly made soup-from-scratch, and home-made slow-cooked dinners from scratch with freshly squeezed juice every day unless you have a) a maid or b)quick-cooking aids.
Simple stuff, by all means, but very eye-opening when you really stop to think about....
Cooking is actually kind of fun sometimes, when one puts aside thy reservations and paranoia about domesticity and housewifery...and now that I have (at least temporarily) put aside such long-standing phobias about domestic drudgery, I will share that I truly think the food processor is indeed one of the greatest inventions on the planet. Sure makes those daily tasks of picando tomate, cebolla y pimiento much easier.
And being that I am not a member of the upper-class (who merely assign such tasks to their empleados), nor do I desire to replicate lower-class life Ecuadorian life here in the U.S. (who spend at least half of the day preparing food, cooking food, or cleaning up food - remember, DVD players may be universal, but refrigerators, freezers, and microwaves are most certainly not)...I am discovering that such seemingly trivilous toys are indeed useful...if one does not want to go the American route of circumventing long cooking times by replacing them with frozen, pre-fab, or Costco sauce-in-a-box food.
Nevertheless, there is something to said for all of those convenience foods...as I truly believe that once could make the claim that convenience foods and tools are and have been the key to our so-called, "class-less, egalitarian" society...For while we as Americans may cry foul at other countries (such as the one I know so well) where the class system is well, not so covert, we sometimes forget that our own society would fall flat on its face had we not our breakfasts-in-a-bottle, microwavable ramen lunches, and lean cuisine chicken delights, much less microwaves, freezers, and food processors. Because there's absolutely no way two people can work out of the home, and still eat freshly made soup-from-scratch, and home-made slow-cooked dinners from scratch with freshly squeezed juice every day unless you have a) a maid or b)quick-cooking aids.
Simple stuff, by all means, but very eye-opening when you really stop to think about....