Christyotwisty Tries Microblogging

March 25 2024 - I prepared Asparagus with Egg for lunch; I put
the stalks in boiling water. Tips cook too fast when submerged
in water, stalks should be upright, or tips up if you please.
I grated some Parmesan cheese to put on the tender, vivid green
cooked stalks.

I fried in butter at medium heat two farm-fresh orange yolk eggs 
in my non-stick skillet. I added salt and pepper, and covered the 
skillet to set the eggs.  When eggs were done they topped the
asparagus, and I dotted the eggs with some sriracha sauce.

This tasted peculiarly delicious, as I normally do not enjoy
asparagus unless they are roasted. I may go wild and reprise
this for dinner with some tomatoes provencal. Recipe also from
that cookbook.

The recipe I used is from the cookbook _What the F*@# Should I 
Make for Dinner_ by Zach Golden.  On Friday I prepared Scallops 
with Swiss Chard and wow, I was not thrilled with swiss chard 
before: I would cut it, boil it, then put apple cider vinegar
on it, but boiling it in heavily salted water, then sauteing 
the chard in lemon juice is a revelation. The scallops were 
wonderful.

The cookbook isn't mine, it's my son's. He was to work at his
culinary/household management skills with salty language. He
made one dish. That's all. The cookbook needs an index. The
Asparagus with Egg though is ridiculously easy, as is Scallops
with Chard. 

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I listened to "Mad Rush", a solo piano composition by Philip
Glass. The announcer, for I heard this on CBC radio, mentioned
how our attention is called away so often, and with so little
or no benefit to us, lots of political pontificating, finger-
wagging, chest-thumping, brow-beating, mental masturbating. I
add food to my microblogs when I can, as we can benefit from
quick, healthy, tasty food, and there must be a way to share
without gathering cookies, inserting ads, or "bushwhacking"
through the non-nutritive posts that populate social media
platforms.