![]() ![]() I don’t have much in either category to cover. And also, I mean, this is CORNBREAD STUFFING, and this specific recipe was invented 4 months ago. (Oh, yeah, there’s a reason we didn’t do 900 words of history and etymology: this is a full-bore rootin’ tootin’ catastrophe. That little mishap out of the way, it was time for the only part of the process that didn’t technically go wrong, and STILL wasn’t quite right. Or I suppose CALL the stores and ask, like it’s the 1980’s or something. I had to (and this may be one of the bougier sentences I’ve ever uttered) convince my brother to stop off at the Fred Meyer after an evening of theatre (Macbeth) and alcohol (A pre-show Scotch tasting), where we found all three pepper varieties needed. And because I’m a dick, I said “You know what, I’ll prove that even step TWO of the process isn’t that hard! Cornbread stuffing and chile crisp!” And discovered that my local Safeway was out of dried chiles (well, the right kind of dried chiles. And you could COMBINE the stuffing, the crisp, and more ingredients, to make a stuffing Fried Rice. You could also make a “chile crisp”, to add a little depth and heat to it. You could just make the stuffing, and be fine. See, one of the things I complained about was that people weren’t ‘stopping’ at the right point: The video has, basically, three recipes, for three “stages”. So I buckled down, went shopping, and almost immediately proved people right by being an asshole about it. I understand that’s confusing, but please, believe and/or laugh at it. The SECOND thing I would like them to do is take me seriously. And if there’s one thing I want people to do, it’s laugh at me. Long-term, it turns out basing your self-confidence on being challenged has some downsides.)Īnd so I paused the OTHER cooking plans I had, because, as my brother pointed out, it would be a dick move to prove I had the perfect Stuffing recipe 3 days before Thanksgiving, and expect you to read, shop, cook, and bask in that narrow window, so we had to make it TODAY if we wanted to be taken seriously. Hell, back in my younger days, it was something of a party trick: if someone dared me, or bet me, that I COULDN’T do something that I kind of wanted to, suddenly, not only was I IN, but it tended to go fairly well. Which is a pretty standard move for me: I will let my mouth talk a lot of shit, as long as I then at least ATTEMPT to back it up. The point culminated in point-ing (ha) out that people were over-stating how hard the Bon Appetit recipe for Cornbread Stuffing was to make, and/or convince people to eat and realizing, as I did so, that it would be quite bad form to say “You’re all being babies, this isn’t THAT hard to make”, and then not put in the effort to demonstrate how easy it was. ![]()
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