Friday, February 6, 2009

food dilemma

A dilemma (Greek δί-λημμα "double proposition") is a problem offering at least two solutions or possibilities, of which none are practically acceptable; one in this position has been traditionally described as being impaled on the horns of a dilemma, neither horn being comfortable.

Thank you, Wikipedia, my husband's favorite site.

So what's my dilemma? Well, by definition, it's not a dilemma. (-5 for the math minor student who barely made it.) So what's my problem?

I DON'T WANT TO EAT ANYTHING IN MY HOUSE. I have food. I just don't want to eat any of it. I would like have some pizza. But, in an effort to be healthy, I'm trying to not buy unhealthy foods (minus that bag of tater tots). In another effort to economical, I'm trying to not buy any groceries, until I clean out my fridge & cabinets. For some reason, this has led to more incidences of eating canned/preserved food, than using that dying cilantro in the fridge. I've eaten so many preservatives, I can probably (1) survive a cyanide attack, (2) maintain a preserved digestive tract post-mortem, (3) develop photos with my stomach acid.

The one extraordinary thing I have accomplished since this weird goal of mine was that I made Green Onion Pancakes aka Cong You Bing (蔥油餅). They were pretty good, even though they were kind of labor intensive for a novice like me. I found this recipe, which was great. I followed a youtube instructional, which was OK. I definitely want to try it out this Taiwanese cooking show method, because this old lady looks like she knows what she's doing. (That wasn't nice. She's probably my Mom's age, which makes her JUST like my Mom--Taiwanese, old-ish, awesome cook. haha) OK, I'm looking at all these dishes on this youtube channel, and I'm about to die of hunger by salivation. (And one of the hosts oddly looks & acts like my cousin...weird.)

Peace Out...side. HAHAHA.

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