Within the last few weeks I have been looking at my surroundings with a new approach. Its almost seems insightful but at time it is just an empty bag of gold. I made some home fries the other day to go along with my well done beef stew chunks. I cut up the Yukon potatoes into nice hearty chunks and wait until the water boiled.
Once it did I toss them in and wait 5 minutes(typically I do it for 3 minutes but on this day I had an inkling feeling about this batch, I felt that they needed to be there LONGER) As I wait for the stove alarm to go off, I stir the beef and add some seasonings and I smell the wonderful aroma that was seeping out the pot. 5 minutes have passed and I cut the fire and pull the pot out of the stove and drop them into the colander, I then turn on the cold water and rinse the potatoes to stop the cooking process, I then get my pan ready with some E.V.O.O.
I continue to paint the beef chunks(btw I got them from Whole Foods, yeah they were good) with some garlic spread (more garlic by the way) salt and pepper, I then toss in the cooled potato pieces in with the beef.
A couple of minutes later once everything has "infused". I put it on my bowl and go to my room. Now in front of me was a bowl of beef with potatoes very simple dinner.
And as I drive my fork down to the bowl to prick a potato and taste its savory goodness, I was shocked to know that I just pierced an uncooked potato. Well it was slightly cooked but not all the way. I ate it anyhow, biting down into its starchy filling(haha) I go in again and to my great luck I get a cooked one. The next 20 minutes or so went just like that, I ate a couple of uncooked potatoes and then I take a couple of cooked ones. Back and forth cooked and uncooked. I then had an epitome How can I tell the difference between an uncooked potato from a cooked one?.. And that was it, I felt n overwhelming sense of insight as if I had reached the peak of some sort of life long knowledge yet I wasn't sure what it was. so
"How can I tell a cooked potato apart from an uncooked one after they have both been through the fire.?" i
s the real question and how could I have applied this to other areas in my life. How would I share this random knowledge when I am surrounded by a group of people eager to hear the wisdom fall from my lips and eat at the very crumbs I utter? Well the reality is that that won't happen although I am laughing as I am typing it .. even imagining it.. I think I found a story to write and I should start writing that story soon.About a..... well..... let me type it up first, then I'll share.
I also enjoyed seeing Joanne a few weeks ago I was very happy to share with her back here in Boston.
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