Water, water, everywhere….
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I am just too busy to do leisurely things sometimes. I cook the recipes… I eat… I become lethargic and unable to type details about all the wonderful food I spent my Sunday making and then eating and then being in a coma from. Food coma is a disorder of not only the mind, but the body as well. Especially the fingers… things I need for typing. It’s a cruel, cruel circle I am caught in! And it is you, poor readers, that must suffer! Well, I suppose I’m suffering too… I will have to hunker down in a Starbucks this weekend (I know… I hate their stuff, but I get the gift cards from my students! Free is nice.) and finish about a doze entries!
One small cooking drawback has surfaced since I last entry-ied. My water is potentially poisoned. I had two wonderful rabbits, Don Quixote and Samson, who both passed mysteriously at the same time. I bought 2 fish, Pablo and Claude, to cheer me up after the loss of my poor bunnies… both fish died within 2 days. Hmm… very curious. Took the water and dead fishes to the Pet Store to have them tested… apparently, according to them, my water is way out of whack (yes, that is a technical water-testing term). I have since obtained a Brita Filter and Betta Fish named Igor. He swims exclusively in Brita water (He’s a bit of a Diva. My fault for pampering him). Plans are in the works to have our water tested. As we are scared of it.
I am not usually a “germaphobe”, per say. But, when 4 pets drop dead mysteriously within a few days… I get a little skeptical of what’s living/ lurking in my water. I started out not using anything but the Britta water. This makes cooking very difficult, so I’ve become a bit more lax and have begun to boil things in it again. Not dead yet *knocks on wood*
Anyway… that is the current state of the project. It is amazing though… how one never notices how much they depend on water when it’s clean and easily accessible. Every time I’ve gone to use water the past 2 weeks I’ve had to stop myself/ think twice. Thank goodness it is included in my rent… because, man AB you require a lot of H2O. Not only for cooking, but for the clean up from your recipes, sheesh! That’s become my exercise! Consider this my “Thank You!” to water and its wonderfulness… when it is non-toxic, of course.
I must go and prepare to make AB’s Potato Soup, Cabbage, and Honey Mustard. And start some slow cooker Corned Beef to enjoy tomorrow (Yay St. Patty’s day!)
