Thursday Bookday: Cookbook?
Why not review a cookbook? Its a book. It has words you read. The only difference is that I have never read a James Patterson book and ended up with a tasty meal.
Full disclosure: I never follow recipes. Well, not exactly. I know people (I really do) that will measure and weigh ingredients, systematically obey the instructions, and probably end up with what the author/cook/chef intended.
Why? [shrugs]
Sometimes you do come up with a delicious variation … sometimes. Oh, I’ve had my failures, but due to my other habit of not wanting to waste food, the result in question does get consumed … sometimes.
Anyway, my first experience with ramen was, like most most people in the west, one of those little hard-packed wavy noodle bricks with the foil package of salt flavored salt.
University students have been know to subsist on them exclusively, and some have actually been known to survive.
My first experience with authentic ramen was when I visited a grocery store with a ramen shop at the back, which had been featured on the Food Network’s show, Diners, Drive-in’s, and Dives.
My first thought was, “Oh … that’s what it’s supposed to taste like.” My second thought was, “I need to know how to make this at home.” Guess what? I do. And, while it’s not even close to the delight I sampled on that fateful day, It is very, very good.
Maybe you should follow the recipe.
Yup. Probably.
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Leon Stevens is a multi-genre author, composer, guitarist, songwriter, and an artist, with a Bachelor of Music and Education. He published his first book of poetry, Lines by Leon: Poems, Prose, and Pictures in January 2020, followed by a book of original classical guitar compositions, Journeys, and a short story collection of science fiction/post-apocalyptic tales called The Knot at the End of the Rope and Other Short Stories. His newest publications are the novella trilogy, The View from Here, which is a continuation of one of his short stories, and a new collection of poetry titled, A Wonder of Words.
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