When I was little, I used to keep a mental inventory of things I could do if ever my parents left us alone unexpectedly for a short while (happened almost never, but it's good to be prepared). The only thing I can remember was that I was dying to drink coffee, which they wouldn't allow ("Stunts your growth." Believe me, I am SO not stunted - so maybe they were right.) Anyway, one afternoon they were out, and we made coffee, by placing a spoonful of instant coffee in a cup and filling it with hot water from the tap. (Apparently, actually HEATING water on the stove would have been TOO transgressive.) Probably we didn't know that others drank it with milk and/or sugar, but lukewarm instant black coffee totally sucked, and that was the end of coffee for me until I got to college.
B. and the neighbors have gone to the movies, and I'm home alone, which is fairly rare. They were barely in the car when I was boiling water for capellini with red sauce (al sugo). It's one of my favorite meals (no need to boil the sauce, so it's like instant dinner, and cleanup is minimal), but we don't have it very often, because pasta isn't B's thing. Helas. I could eat pasta with red sauce every day.
As a special treat, I had an artichoke heart straight from the jar. Yeah, I know: life ON THE EDGE. Pathetic.
Also, I read last Sunday's local paper and am mentally preparing a screed for tomorrow on Jeff Opdyke's reader-response to his article on feeding neighborhood kids. It's just ridiculous how some parents think - and evidence of Giddens' (?) thesis that media/consumerism has saturated the world to the exclusion of all rationality. More to come.
Posted by otto0114 at January 20, 2006 09:58 PMI never did drink coffee, but my growth was definitely stunted. :-) Wonder what I DID have that you didn't....
Posted by: danielle at January 27, 2006 11:12 AM