Dragon fruit- Pitaya

I tried this yesterday at my friends place. I dont really remember how a kiwi tastes, as I am a little wary of those black little things... I think thats the closest this fruit gets in taste.. and I didnt know it came in white too..

frybread

When I read that Barbara Kingsolver took her daughter Camille to the Heard Musuem and tried fry bread and their fingers were sticky with honey, so I wanted to know about that...
Now I am reading about pupusa and to understand Geri Koeppel's description of it tasting like a 'cross between tamales and fry bread'... I had to take a small diversion...
BTB

Dessert with a story

This dessert Semla, killed a king.
I dont believe I passed payasam and rasmalai today at Udupi. I think its because last time I had a sweet there, it was syrup of one in another that somehow ruined the dessert's authenticity.

Should the spoon out?

Looking at the picture, having read all the description of what the food was... one thing that caught my eye was the spoon.. I havent seen many food presentations. But, in the ones that I have seen is it the first time that I am seeing the spoon.
I wanted to know what that means in the food presentation.
I like the message.. 'Go Ahead and eat it!'.. But.. I want to look at some fantastic Eggplant Rollatini and float .. and then the steel spoon just brings me back...

Marcela Broussard feels, "Why upset the perfect state of equilibrium found on the surface of a crème caramel? The smooth-as-glass surface is the garnish here--along with a spoon."

Now the spoon's really fighting the garnish that could have been in there or the empty spot.

Beer Bong

Beer Pong

Sinigang- Filipino dish

Corn Palace

Bare cactus bear/rear rare flower

Pastels and Paleness.
Appreciation for existence without promise.
An ignored bright lotus.

Wonders a child
why her parents cared much for her
retarded sibling.

Surds

Some smells are surds, in that they are unresolved expressions (wiki)

Book Time

Yesterday saw this program on channel 8, ASU TV. ( Thankfully its not Casanova play time yet!)

There was Lee Smith talking about her writing. I dont know her. Her accent, the flash of her teeth and smile, made me think that I could place her if she was younger. So I kept watching for the clue. Lou Crabtree was an interesting person to know about.

Went into the kitchen. Fixed some dinner. Back after a while, saw Rob Kingsolver on the screen and saw a lady walk in the wilderness explaining that it was her playground. I was wondering if she was Barbara Kingsolver. Initially the movements, social injustice, she was talking of didnt ring well with the idea I have of her from the 'High Tide in Tucson' book of hers that I am reading.. As I followed her South to West, The Bean Trees talk... it was interesting to know her story, all the things her fans send her.

Introduction to Wall paper and Ted Kooser

After reading the first line of the 'Abandoned Farmhouse' poem, I was reminded of a huge man with legs overgrowing his bed. That was an image from one of the high school poems. As I read along, I thought this is going in a Sherlock Holme fashion. When I reached the 'bedroom wall papered with lilacs', I was certain it was the same poem. That was my introduction to wall paper.

Iris

She danced like a doll.
Dolls with cheap Raymonds pen blue eyes,
irises with gradations and a hint of spokes.
Her iris was black.

love this song

Its 'Horse with no name'.

The line - In the desert, you cant remember your name

caught my attention.

Lunch at Sesame Street

Today I saw a small puppet worm climb over a small wall and scream ..'Lunch' eating into an apple.

What would it be like?

Not all of the article is interesting to me. But it makes me wonder, why I never thought of what is the smell on the moon like?
In many mythologies, it is believed that people are made from earth and return to the dust. If there were people on Moon or Mars, they would be made of dust from that place. From the news of it, they would be pretty corrosive people to come in contact with. Has someone warned Carl Sagan about this?
The moon's a desert and if it has any plants, I might know what the summer evening smells like- Arizona summer evening.

Big Fish

This is to say that its for real. If you look at the brown 14x14 in cloth with beautiful alternating blue and red emblem prints, learn soon - thats a testimony to me treating a Japanese girl to Indian food. The cooking was a long drawn 5 hour affair. How much ever explanation of what and how I cooked is never going to convince my roomate who is all laughs and wonders about what could one cook beyond an hour.
In all senses, my roomates have a better aesthetic. Earlier I used to stick this cloth on the wall as a square. But now they placed it diagonally and it looks terrific.

Starving the chefs

It might as well be the new manners. My friends complain that I dont call them over for dinner. I can never cook for someone who can do better than me. I guess I wouldnt feed them till they would figure it best to drop their taste to survive.
On second thoughts, my roomate- the In-House chef, appreciates my cooking despite it being below par for her standards. Reason - she gets bored with her cooking. All I have to do is wait for my friends to cook, cook , cook and then I can think of feeding them without the guilt of offending their tongues.

In optimal

Cooking Deliciously. My roommate thinks that she fails to cook well when she tries in larger quantities. The rest of us devoured what she made. I enjoyed the fried peanuts in the upma, didnt quite like the tomatoes in it (cause I dont like it as an ingredient in this dish), loved the smell of it and tried to orchestrate it with hot tea. Somehow I didnt get the balance right. Tea is no good when it cools down. I had to have another cup of hot tea to get the feeling of having had it right.

To be or not to be

It is funny how food clears up the head. There is a chance for confusion if there are two things to choose from and you dont know which to go with. I have seen having stomachful let me know clearly what are the two ways that I am fighting to take, especially when they are not as perfectly related as 'to be or not to be?'. If the poster kid with this question was well fed, his question would change and he would be able to find the answer clearly.



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Hard Kaur- Play me that song with the Indian drum....

Tagged by Maverick

I wasnt gonna blog a while. But seemed like agod distraction from short story analysis..

Q1. Are you happy/ satisfied with your blog, with its content and look?

I am using it as a dumping station. So its content and looks are just so. I am to find the priced treasure some other day. Like , I was going through my junk and found a bracelet which has 'doit' in beads- Nike time- that was supposed to motivate me for GRE,CAT prep. I have it on now after 5 years and its nice looking at it once in a while hanging from my wrist. So some day, when I look back at my blog few years later, I am counting on it as some junk to rummage through for fun sake.

Q2. Does your family know about your blog?

My sister and brother know about it- not my parents..

Q3. Do you feel embarrassed to let your friends know about your blog or you just consider it as a private thing?

I dont mind my friends knowing about my blog. Again going back to the junk analogy, it will just seem that to them. One of my friend says- sometimes it feels like your blog is just for you- which exactly whats mine for.

well, once I did feel embarassed sharing my blogpage link with a guy I after a discussion on his reading experiences. Maybe because the pointers he had given for books were so out of my range.

Q4. Did blogs cause positive changes in your thoughts?
When I go back to blogs, sometimes its like did this even happen to me- but its nice recalling the moments, like looking at old pictures...

Q5. Do you only open the blogs of those who comment on your blog or you love to go and discover more by yourself?

There was a time when I liked going through many blogs- Travel and Food blogs. But now there is just one blog ( marcelproust.blogspot.com) which I did like to but cant keep up with, so the rest just have to wait.

Q6. What does visitors counter mean to you? Do you care about putting it in your blog?
Nada

Q7. Did you try to imagine your fellow bloggers and give them real pictures?
No, but if I frequent their blogs then I would.

Q8. Do you think there is a real benefit for blogging?
It is a funny, valid question. 'Time on hand' is a very contradictory concept. You look at life and think, there is not enough to do things you wold like to. But again, there are lots of times, you feel you could have done something better - and if that time's spent in blogging.. devil's workshop is off.. so there!

Q9. Do you think that bloggers’ society is isolated from real world or interacts with events?
Far from it,since its a response to whats happening.

Q10. Does criticism annoy you or do you feel it’s a normal thing?
I get angry with criticism from anonymous.

Q11. Do you fear some political blogs and avoid them?
I would just skip to the next blog.

Q12. Did you get shocked by the arrest of some bloggers?
what was the reason?

Q13. Did you think about what will happen to your blog after you die?
why are you hurrying it up? But I think I will pick one literary grandchild of mine and ask him/her to keep adding PS to any thing thats related and different.

Q14. What do you like to hear? What’s the song you might like to put a link to, in your blog?
I am just listening to Nickelback's rockstar... I like the line with bathroom big enough to play baseball in...

Rule 3:

Hmmm…….. six people? okay let me think. I’d love if all did everything. But just in case, im giving options


I guess I'll just tag 2 people..