I don’t know if it’s the subconscious prodding of being part of Team Pepper, or if it’s the weather, but I had a craving yesterday for chili con carne. So while I was at the grocery store, I bought all the ingredients which are now simmering on my stove top, their mingled aromas wafting into my nostrils and teasing my growling tummy.
I don’t like cooking, as a rule, except when I’m making something that I can see coming together in stages. To me, making a pot of chili, or spaghetti sauce, or dish I call “slop” (which is basically all the veggies you’d put in spaghetti except without the tomato sauce but including chopped tomatoes, and chicken and rice with a dash or two of curry) is more like building a dinner than cooking it. To me it looks like life.
You start with the basic ingredient and it’s like a newly formed child. Add in the next, which may be language, and a sprinkling of different spices (which we all know are actually experiences) and before you know it, it’s turned into something entirely different, and yet the same.
And then you eat it! Which incidentally is where it stops being like a person… unless you’re into that… but we won’t go there, will we…?
Where was I? Oh yes, peppers. My chili is going to be hot and spicy. Just like Nano Poblano… and the people involved. Who I won’t eat.
November 6, 2014 at 12:11 pm
Those last two lines just made me snort.
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November 7, 2014 at 6:08 pm
😀
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November 5, 2014 at 9:27 pm
My father always told me to have a tough exterior, Linda G. 🙂 Now I finally know why it was to keep the forkers away from me.
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November 5, 2014 at 9:28 pm
Hahahahaa! That’s so funny! Thanks for the laugh, Mr. Mark. 😀
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November 5, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Good Grief what a relief … I do not fancy being ate!!
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November 5, 2014 at 8:33 pm
You have nothing to fear, my dear. 😉
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November 6, 2014 at 5:41 am
Phew!! 😉 xx
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November 5, 2014 at 5:16 pm
I’m a cunning linguist and I approve the fact that you didn’t go there. Enjoy your spicy whatever it is you’re cooking! Unless it’s people.
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November 5, 2014 at 5:36 pm
“cunning linguist”? Seriously? 🙂
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November 5, 2014 at 6:20 pm
Super sirius. XD
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November 5, 2014 at 8:32 pm
Hey, if they taste like chicken…
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November 5, 2014 at 4:58 pm
I appreciate your restraint in not cannibalizing your “teammates” during this month. 😀
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November 5, 2014 at 5:09 pm
Hahahaaha! I’m seriously rolling on the floor at this. Thanks for the laugh! 😀
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November 5, 2014 at 5:10 pm
Thanks for not eating me for dinner! 🙂
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November 5, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Yeah… that helmet looks kinda crunchy. Haha!
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November 5, 2014 at 4:58 pm
You are so funny! That sounds delicious. Oddly enough, as a Team Pepper participant, I’ve been craving hot stuff too. I’ve got all kinds of fun things on the menu for this week, but I love cooking! 🙂 But like you, I don’t eat people either.
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November 5, 2014 at 5:08 pm
Wow, really? So I’m not alone in this subliminal craving. Interesting. It’s great that you love to cook! Especially food! 😀
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November 6, 2014 at 5:35 pm
Did you by chance see the comment I added on your About page?
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November 6, 2014 at 8:51 pm
I did! But I’ve barely been online for more than 5 minutes all day. I’ll have a closer look after the kiddie goes to bed. 🙂 Sorry if I’m late for something!
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November 7, 2014 at 12:09 am
No problem. Just wanted to make sure. 🙂
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November 5, 2014 at 4:47 pm
spicy & delicious!
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November 5, 2014 at 4:48 pm
The chili? Yes! The people? Not so much. 😉
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