Adventures in Cooking -Judij Clippinqer-
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kitchen because
in the
our mothers
makes us enjoy
that
is it
experiment
who were
trying it's
new
we can
play with our food
Children often scare their
parents, sometimes
Now
that
I
we
all
New
Year's
sitting
to see
how
Day of 2006,
I
live
things are going. told
want.
good reason but more than 10 hours away from my for
me
parents and just dropping by isn't an option, they call
Sunday evening
like to
constantly telling us not to play with our food.
that we're adults,
often unintentionally.
Maybe we
things?
the last stage of rebellion against
them how
I
When
had rung
on the couch, watching TV, finishing off the
almost every
me on
they called in the
last
new
year:
of the sparkling
grape juice, and reading a tofu cookbook. Not exactly standard fare for a
meat-and-potatoes household, and
have
sounded strange
of
to the lure
even poor
new
little
it,
I
I
the fiaky crust, just not the calories
ly
it.
Since
I
if
they could get
everyone had
that
to figure out if
the
and cholesterol
creamy
I
I
to
could
filling
that usually
had already made pumpkin pie with tofu,
and
come
thought sure-
sugar cream pie couldn't be that hard.
However, between classes and club time to play around with the idea. it
I
culinary experiences or to the influence of
misguided Catholic ones who,
would change the dress code to say wear orange on Fridays. So anyway, was trying make sugar cream pie without the milk. wanted
away with
with
And
to them.
admit that I'm not vegan, or even vegetarian. But I'm not
to
immune friends,
it
languished
of mine,
in
who
my
I'll
I
activities,
fiash drive for nearly a
call
I
didn't have
went online and found
much
a recipe, but
month. Then a certain friend
Hamlet, mentioned that he wanted
to
go
to
He'd been putting it off for one reason or another for some time and wanted to make sure that he finally got there. I agreed to pick him up at a quarter to six on Wednesday, and as we parted ways, was inspired to do something nice. This happens quite often, actually, but going out of my way to do something nice must often yield to more practical considerations, like the need to go to work, do Writer's Club.
I
assignments, and write essays. But Hamlet was planning to graduate the spring, it
and
to a Writer's
perfect time to
The
might have been the only time
that he actually
Club meeting. And since he's vegan,
make
it
seemed
in
made
like the
the pie.
I had to get over was the fact that I didn't have Having experimented with tofu cookery a little in the past, I
first
a blender.
this
hurdle that
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