Wednesday, April 09, 2008

Dinnertime

So it's Tuesday and I was having my steak and rice dinner. Not that Tuesday is steak night but I was in the mood. I started the meal with a glass of orange juice, OJ is my new Spanish Fanta substitute, it used to be Oranginia but OJ made from Valencia oranges makes me feel more connected. I got my big bag o rice and the best steak money can buy. A rib eye with great marbling from Giant, thats right with my Giant card a whopping $4.96. Often people refer me to Whole Foods for a proper butchering of steak but it will cost my three times as much and I won't be able to get A1 or a coca-cola. If i was having a cheese plate then whole foods i would go. I like to go and sample cheeses and walk away from the cheese dude. He once gave me this stinky cheese which reminded me of durian. I have never really forgiven him for that. I'm an asian without a rice cooker, wow i feel incomplete. I cook my rice on the stove top and then i top it off with butter and salt and pepper, just joking. With my awesome meal I usually have some fun veggies today was broiled tomatoes and roasted garlic. So i have the tomato, a little salt and pepper a little cheese and I broil it with some whole garlic cloves. I love steak and rice and a broiled tomato is awesome...but this go around my tomato sucked. It was all bitter. Why were you bitter? My steak was very good with hits of A1 and steamy hot rice. I actually plan on deconstructing this meal to its basics and then I am going to rebuild it into a super meal, maybe I will liquify it and turn it into a popsicle...or throw it in a vacuum sealed bag and cook it for 12 hours, hey doesn't my meal become a MRE if i do this? I had a tall cold coca cola with dinner in a glass with ice. I have these big clunky glasses. I ended my meal with a scoop of french vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. I thought if i mixed the two i would get chocolate ice cream but the ice cream and chocolate sauce never folded into each other. I ate my meal with my headphones on listening and singing along to the Hoodoo Gurus.

Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

I can still recall the time
She said she was always mine
Then she left ( as people do ),
And forgets what we’ve been through
(Does this sound familiar to you ?)
It’s not that she’s gone away
It’s the things I hear she has got to say
About me - and about my friends
When we’ve got no defence.

That’s her: I’ll never believe her again.
She might have deceived all my friends
I know they will see in the end
What it all means when she says (yeah!)
I want you back (She says)

But what’s worse: she thinks it’s true
But that’s just her (she always was a little bit confused!),
She’s not worth the time I had to lose.

7 comments:

Unknown said...

Mmmm steak and rice!! I personally like it with worchester sauce and butter. Rice and corn(of course) as my side.

One Little Seedling said...

Remember our awesome cover band? Awesome until you kicked me out.

Anyways, that sounds like a perfect night. Steak, experimentation, headphones in a player and Hoodoo Gurus... nice night. That brings me back to Cali nights.

Also made me hungry... bastard.

@margeemateo said...

im hungry. but a steak meal on a popsicle is a nice idea. how many calories is it per stick?

onocoffee said...

A big reason why your tomato was bitter is because tomatoes are out of season in the Mid-Atlantic. All of the tomatoes you buy around here are being imported from somewhere else, picked green and held in atmospheric controlled warehouses before being allowed to "ripen" in controlled environments.

Wait until summer when tomatoes are ripening on the vine and you'll get that perfect meal you've been dreaming of.

chagans said...

Your tomatoes were a big, unflavorful American variety. You need imported! All things foreign are better! Just look at foreign Fanta, the Euro and the original Brit version of The Office...

chagans said...

OK, after reading onocoffee's comments, I clearly have no idea what I'm talking about.

Anonymous said...

Hoodoo Gurus!! I have not heard them for years, I used to love them. As an Australian I am naturally biased but they were the soundtrack to my 21st.