Dinner guests last night. On the menu: steak, baby back ribs, corn-on-the-cob, broccoli and garlic bread. Pro tip: Cook the meal before your start drinking. Well, actually I did the ribs in the crockpot so I started them in the morning. My timing was off is all. Some things were getting done (or overdone) in the wrong sequence. Anyway, being a little tipsy goes a long way to making everything taste better I suppose.
I’m no foodie and honestly I’m not all that adventurous when it comes to local cuisine. I almost exclusively eat Western foods when I dine out and of course that’s all I cook at home. So when I came across this guide to Filipino street food I thought maybe it’s time to broaden my horizons:
And in news from the world of science, this really explains a lot:
And now it is time for my weekly Hash adventure.
I got the Hashit, the Subic Hashit
For being stupid on trail today
I have to keep it until I pass it
Won’t someone take my Hashit away…
UPDATE: Well it turns out I used the “What’s Cookin’?” title back in April, 2013. I was cooking steaks that day too. Seems like a lifetime ago now. I guess in a way it was.
“Deuterostome,” from the Greek deutero, meaning “second,” and the Greek (also Latin) stoma, meaning “orifice, mouth, hole, opening.” since we’re all assholes, I guess it makes sense that we’re a bit hole-ier than thou. Then again, Alan Watts described most living beings as basically tubes, with stuff constantly coming in one end and going out the other.
Whoops—the first “since” ought to be capitalized. Mea culpa.