Detox
Posted on 03.12.09 to Cooking, Personal by JoanI’ve been on a sort of communications detoxification diet. Reeling from recent events, I’ve decided to take some time away to be quiet, recover and think about how I’m managing my life. This past week, I felt like I was freewheeling and it felt awful not being in control.
My dog ate my glasses. I accidentally boxed my kid in the eye with the shower head. Got my headphones trapped around the car’s steering wheel while trying to plug it into the phone and turning out of the carpark. Spilled milk all over in the fridge. Walked to the car carrying a bag of soiled diapers because I forgot to dump it in the trash. Was almost late for Clare’s school and got locked out (school caretaker’s fault, it wasn’t 12pm yet but she locked the gate early), which resulted in us climbing over the gate (not very tall, less than 1m), while other parents looked but couldn’t be bothered to get the caretaker to unlock the gate for us. Received a giant stack of fines, largely because red car’s In-Vehicle Unit was faulty so it was working intermittently, and it’s inevitable that one drives through 10 ERP gantries a day considering how they much they have populated the island.
I felt like the lead in the sitcom, Worst Week.
So I decided to stop communicating with people as much as I used to, logged off all online chat mediums, and focussed on doing what I had to do. I took my time to get ready to leave the house. I did not speed while driving. I cut the garlic and onions properly for dinner.
I s-l-o-w-e-d down.
Which turned out to be a good thing because it made me think and I got creative coming up with ideas for the blog and business.
For the blog, I’m going to be introducing tips and tricks for the working mum on how to cope with juggling all the hats she wear.
I’m going to start with easy meal ideas should one decide to cook in, instead of eating out. I’m a lazy cook (and not a terribly exciting or good one) and I usually go for dishes that require minimal preparation and cleaning up. I actually do enjoy cooking a fair bit, but I have the same amount of patience of a kid dying to go to the loo on a road trip. So a dish that requires fine planning is something I would only think about on a weekend when I have nothing to do.
Oh, and I’m a proponent of the agaration* technique, and I don’t usually follow recipes exactly. I’ll try my very best to put down proper measurements in my recipes, and feel free to adjust and modify anything that suits your palate.
* From Coxford Singlish Dictionary: The noun form of the Malay verb “agak-agak”, which means to estimate.
