Saturday, August 6, 2011

"Food"

I need to start getting rid of my ingredients now as I move out of here, which means that a lot of the things I eat are going to be strange hodgepodges of things I have too much of. Like today's dish, except today's is arguably only exacerbating the problem...

Welcome to Saturday Supper, where your host, I, Yifan, am continually haunted by the spirits of those animals who have sacrificed their lives so that they could be reintroduced into the circle of life, only to wind up in my dishes of death instead. Today's dish is a high-density, high-calorie, efficient nutrient-giving foodstuff.

I'll let your reaction fill in the caption.


Some of you in the audience might be thinking that I've finally just given up on even trying to follow recipes. That's...that's chillingly accurate. I can't even claim that any thought of a recipe went into the making of this - I just had ingredients and threw them together into a pan using techniques that I've learned over the course of the summer.

If you can't tell what's in this dish (and honestly, there's no reason why anyone should expect you to), it's ground pork, beans in tomato paste, breading, spinach, and cheese. This covers a lot of ground, nutrient-wise, and can be condensed into a very very dense form. What is this good for? Honestly, I'm not too sure.

It actually looks much more appetizing when condensed. Rather like Romantic literature.

Do I have anything interesting to say about this...thing? Not really. Heck, I didn't even bother with a proper title for this entry. It is notable that this one round of cooking will be enough to last me for at least four meals, which is quite substantial considering how little it looks like there is. Funnily enough, I had a similar thought earlier today with my bacterial media, how making one stock is enough to last for several experiments, considering how little it looks like there is. I worry ever so slightly for my future as a living being.

All in all, this post, I'm sure you've realized, much resembles the dish for which it's dedicated. Hastily put together, very confused, and hardly satisfying from an aesthetic standpoint to any partaking in its essence. But in any case it fills up space and gets you through another week.

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