Are You Feeling Lucky? (Culinary Adventure Week 2)

Categories: Vittles and Libations

Friday, June 16. 2006

Tonight was the first dinner of our second Culinary Adventure Week. The theme: Google recipes! Simply type two ingredients into google, plus the word "recipe", like so: "chicken bacon recipe". Then hit the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button and cook whatever comes up! You really place your stomach in the hands of fate with this one - but so far with good results. Even unusual test cases like "italian sausage mussels recipe" came up looking tasty.

Sheraz wasn't home tonight, so we feasted on forbidden fruit: pork and tomatoes. Google came up with "Pork Chops with Fresh Tomato, Onion, Garlic, and Feta", which worried us somewhat but turned out to be really very good.

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Culinary Adventure Month: Week One

Categories: Vittles and Libations

Thursday, June 8. 2006

My roommate Sheraz and I suffer from a certain indecision about what to eat; nothing seems good to us anymore, and this results in discussions of the "What do you want to eat? I dunno, what do YOU want to eat?" kind and in disastrous expeditions like today's, in which we drove around aimlessly for an hour looking for something that would hit the elusive "spot". I have no illusions; this is a mark of decadence, one more of the minor pyschological problems that comes of limitless opportunities and a complete lack of survival pressure. But to hell with that - we decided to solve our problem by turning it into an amusing adventure, applying our favorite tool for doing so: eccentric wagering.

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