batskeets | This one's about food.

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So yeah, the Brewfest in the Park blocks was *awesome*. Morgan and Miles got there right when they opened, so they snagged a table right in the middle, and OMG THE BEER. I haven't had a beer since I got back from China, and Chinese beer might as well be water, so it's been a month since I've had a decent beer. This was the perfect Welcome Back To Real Beer event, because I got to drink some truly amazing brews. Oh my freakin' god.

I also got to unleash my sprouted wheat bread on the gaming group yesterday; I got the batter ready, and then brought it with me to bake while we played! It's interesting stuff, great crust on the outside, and a really moist interior. I also threw a ripe banana into the mix at the last minute, so it might have benefited from baking for longer, but the recipe is now known as Banana Manna Bread. HAW! ;)

Boy asked me the other night why I like to put so much "work" into my food, and I was in the middle of making food at the time, so I didn't really answer him adequately. Now that I'm thinking about it, it boils down to:

1) Tasty food makes me happy.
2) Healthy food makes me feel good.
3) Making new things and eating them is actually exciting and something I look forward to.
4) Making new things and eating them lets me enjoy the whole healthy lifestyle/diet thing, instead of eating chicken and broccoli all the time and dreaming of a cheeseburger and fries.
5) I am totally worth the effort, and my friends are, too! (assuming I get to share)

There are probably a ton more reasons. I have such strong emotional ties to food that I don't think I could do it any other way. It's just FUN to cook and monkey around with recipes. I've considered culinary school in the past, and I wish I had time to learn more about food science, so that I could *really* begin to experiment. Alton Brown is one of the precious few reasons why I actually miss having cable TV.