One Post, Two Topics: Coming Soon! And, Shopping Tips for Space Aliens
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 at 06:30PM COMING SOON!
Today is the kind of day that makes me sad for those who don’t live in Seattle. For one, it was a gorgeous, sunny day, maybe a little cool, but that’s okay. For another, if you don’t live here, you have no reason to take advantage of my new site FreshPickedSeattle.com, which I am all proud-parenty about. (If you don’t live here, but are planning a trip, take a peek before you come as there’s fun to be had.)
One of the reasons I like cooking is the whole no-thought, actual Zen state you sink into after a while. Well, if cooking puts me into an actual Zen state, I think working on that site puts me into some kind of highly productive version of a k-hole or something.
So with all the new stuff I’ve been adding over there, that’s been taking up most of my working-on-the-web time of late, but I will be getting back here for some big additions soon.
If you’ve ever seen a post on this site and thought, Gee, I’d really like to try that recipe but am exhausted at the idea of scrolling down for 45 minutes until I get to it because she wrote like 10,000 words about that time she went to 7-11 and criminy this IS the web, hasn't she ever heard of tldnr?
In answer to your question, yes, I am aware of all internet traditions, I just choose to be anachronistically lengthy.
But I aim to please, so I will be extracting the recipes from the lengthy posts and putting them into their own Recipe archive and I'm also going to attempt to work out some kind of efficient categorization process.
Then that recipe archive will be assembled slowly into the Menu Ideas over there on the right, which I said were coming back on Jan 1, and it’s been weighing on my mind ever since.
So now that Top Chef is done, I’ve wrestled a bunch of hours each week back to myself and they will be spent over here soon.
SHOPPING TIPS FOR SPACE ALIENS
Secondly, as frequent readers might know, I tend to shorthand my special combination of culinarily-raised-by-wolves absence of food context and innate lack of common sense as being a "space alien." You know, just tryin' to figure out what the heck you humans do about food and such.
In case you, too, might suffer from a context and common sense deficiency, or, perhaps, are in fact an actual space alien trying to pass, here’s a little tip for you next time you’re at the grocery store:
If there’s a batch of carbonated coffee soda you’ve never tried before in a “Good Buy” cart and the price has been knocked down to 25 cents, don’t buy it. And certainly don’t buy four different flavors, thinking, “What a bargain!”
It’s in the cart for a reason: the humans have vetted it for you. Mentally thank them and move on.
Reader Comments (1)
Lol! "It’s in the cart for a reason: the humans have vetted it for you. Mentally thank them and move on." This could apply to sooooooooo many things when shopping! ;)