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a familiar burnt flavor
Wednesday, September 25 2024
I took a recreational 150 mg pseudoephedrine dose this morning, which helped me power through the writing of several entries from the recent Germany trip. That was mostly what I worked on today.
While I was walking the dogs up the Chamomile Headwaters Trail and then back on the Stick Trail, rain started falling from the concrete dome of the sky. It wasn't much at first, and didn't really interfere with my next chore: collecting tomatoes in our garden. It has three or four different kinds of cheery tomatoes as well as plum tomatoes and some sort of big tomato of the kind that's good for sandwiches (though that last one seems to have exhausted itself). I was collecting these partially for Gretchen (who had said she would eat them if only someone picked them) but also for another tomato reduction I intended to use as a base for another of my chilis. As always, I sizzled up a pan of some sort of protein (in this case tofu) with onions and mushrooms, added the tomato reduction, and then added a bunch of beans (including green beans), spices, and nutritional yeast. But something went a bit pear-shaped when I was pan-searing the tofu, because it got a little too burnt. This tainted the flavor of the whole pot of chili, reminding me of numerous incidents in Harkness co-op back in college, when 19 year old stoner cooks let huge pots of rice sit too long unstirred and the bottom layer would get charred. The chili was still edible, but it was not ideal. Gretchen, of course, remembers Harkness food all to well, and she said she hadn't tasted that flavor in all the years since Harkness until today. I suppose I should've known something was wrong when the smoke detector went off not once but twice.
By this evening the pseudoephedrine and kratom had me feeling a bit ill, so I lay back and watched a steady stream of YouTube videos about all the things that are wrong with the Tesla Cybertruck.
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