Archive for the 'Failed Attempt At Cooking' Category
From ‘In a Station of the Metro’ to Radiohead Paying ME to Listen to Their Music
6 Comments Published by hasan November 3rd, 2007 in Failed Attempt At Cooking, Movies, Silly Ideas, daily life, dorm, observations.Ezra Pound put it beautifully:
In a Station of the Metro
THE apparition of these faces in the crowd;
Petals on a wet, black bough.
I find train stations to be both symbolic and microcosmic at once. I get a rush every time I walk into a train station, no matter how many times I’ve passed through it before. [...]
Okra is a type of fruit & other tales
7 Comments Published by hasan May 24th, 2007 in Embarrassment, Failed Attempt At Cooking, bizarre.Yes, when I read this I was shocked. I suddenly rediscovered the poetry of Rumi while discussing the recipe of Okra Stew (Or as I’ve always known it to be as KORESHT BAAIEH) with someone earlier today. Later this evening, while I tried cooking it for the first time in my life (yes, the shame), [...]
On Conquering the Elusive MACHBOOS
0 Comments Published by hasan August 11th, 2005 in Failed Attempt At Cooking.YES! Today I did it! I went to the grocery store, bought all the things I needed and COOKED MACHBOOS! Machboos, for those of you who aren’t familiar, is a dish FAMOUS in the Bahrain household as YUMMY. Rice, Spices, meat (chicken, beef, shrimp or fish) and some vegetables. YUMMY.
A good friend of mine, Enyu [...]
Long Saturday
0 Comments Published by hasan May 21st, 2005 in Failed Attempt At Cooking, Japan, daily life.Wow; what a day. Today was one of those days in which I managed to accomplish many things. I was in the Karate dojo today by 10.00am till 12.30pm to get some practice out of the way. I had to run quickly back to the dormitory to get a shower and run back outside to [...]
Brave Chocolate Sushi Chef, Kimono and Haruki Murakami Stories
0 Comments Published by hasan May 20th, 2005 in Failed Attempt At Cooking, Haruki Murakami, Kimono, Sushi.Haha! What a day! To keep track of my thoughts, I’ll divide up the paragraphs:
1. The new, brave chocolate sushi chef:
Today, I have suddenly turned brave today. After having a small sushi meal followed by a fistful of almond-milk chocolate (meiji, the same I had on Nippon Maru last year during the Valentine’s day party). [...]