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Once every 3 years I find something on eBay I want to buy, so I make a bid and 'commit', but than can't be bothered with PayPal and so I flake on it. Its not even laziness, its general disgust for all things eBay and PayPal and feeling unwilling to deal with them at all. I have the same feeling whenever I go to a MySpace page. I'm sure there's some internet karmic response that is served on me as a result.
The problem with summer bringing an explosion of vegetables every week from the farm where we own a share is that in the heat and humitidy of our apartment, I am the least willing to cook. Granted, we are getting lots of lettuce and things that I can just cut up with scissors and eat raw, but that gets tiring. Today I'm going to do it anyway though, and create some sort of dish involving kohlrabi, beets, zucchini, radishes and scallions. I got sucked into watching most of an Oprah, a repeat with Jerry Seinfeld's wife who made a cookbook that's all about using vegetable purees in every dish, to sneak it into foods for kids, etc. Psychology aside, there were interest food ideas. And then Dr. Oz came on and explained the "scientific principle" behind kids being picky eaters, which is that children evolved to have 10,000 taste buds on average, whereas adults have 3,000. The evolutionary purpose is that in the wild, foods that taste sweet are safe, foods that are bitter might be poison. As you get older, you learn what is good to eat, you don't need to stick only to sugar-tasting things. Its funny, I was just thinking last week while eating a sandwich with sprouts, how as a kid I had no problem getting dirt in my mouth while playing, but hated all foods that were "earthy". As an adult, I'm all about foods (or wine) that taste like dirt or minerals. The tastebud thing makes sense though, as to why certain foods like spinach or broccoli made me gag as a kid, or even a teen, but now I don't even notice the sulphur smell that used to trigger it.
Speaking of, I recently had a conversation about sulphur dioxide and why its "bad". Well, it wasn't really a conversation, it was more like 'does anyone know why we aren't supposed to want it in our apricots?' and no one knew. Turns out it can trigger asthma attacks in sensitive individuals. Since that's not an issue for me, now I don't have to worry about sometimes indulging in cheaper storebrand dried fruit.
Ok, ok, gym, bank, laundry. I'm going.
The problem with summer bringing an explosion of vegetables every week from the farm where we own a share is that in the heat and humitidy of our apartment, I am the least willing to cook. Granted, we are getting lots of lettuce and things that I can just cut up with scissors and eat raw, but that gets tiring. Today I'm going to do it anyway though, and create some sort of dish involving kohlrabi, beets, zucchini, radishes and scallions. I got sucked into watching most of an Oprah, a repeat with Jerry Seinfeld's wife who made a cookbook that's all about using vegetable purees in every dish, to sneak it into foods for kids, etc. Psychology aside, there were interest food ideas. And then Dr. Oz came on and explained the "scientific principle" behind kids being picky eaters, which is that children evolved to have 10,000 taste buds on average, whereas adults have 3,000. The evolutionary purpose is that in the wild, foods that taste sweet are safe, foods that are bitter might be poison. As you get older, you learn what is good to eat, you don't need to stick only to sugar-tasting things. Its funny, I was just thinking last week while eating a sandwich with sprouts, how as a kid I had no problem getting dirt in my mouth while playing, but hated all foods that were "earthy". As an adult, I'm all about foods (or wine) that taste like dirt or minerals. The tastebud thing makes sense though, as to why certain foods like spinach or broccoli made me gag as a kid, or even a teen, but now I don't even notice the sulphur smell that used to trigger it.
Speaking of, I recently had a conversation about sulphur dioxide and why its "bad". Well, it wasn't really a conversation, it was more like 'does anyone know why we aren't supposed to want it in our apricots?' and no one knew. Turns out it can trigger asthma attacks in sensitive individuals. Since that's not an issue for me, now I don't have to worry about sometimes indulging in cheaper storebrand dried fruit.
Ok, ok, gym, bank, laundry. I'm going.
