The stupid vegetables and the like take forever to cut.
Prep takes forever.
My solution: simplify.
If the recipe calls for like 20 vegetables, I use like 2 that take the least amount of time to wash and cut. I've gotten somewhat faster so I've upped the number, but honestly, recipes are guidelines, not rules. I take what liberties I'm comfortable with and usually my stuff comes out all right.
I must say though, I suck at using strong herbs. Oregano and rosemary are not my friends. I'm working on them. They'll come around.
I suppose simplification is the current the theme of my life. I've been filling it with a lot of unnecessary crap. Get rid of what you don't need* and keep it simple.
*I want to note that I don't just trash everything and add to the already exponentially growing waste that humans produce. I try to recycle or re-purpose the stuff I have. Let us not create such a large carbon footprint, yeah?
Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Wednesday, June 3, 2015
Linear living, linear thinking
Perhaps thoughts and living follow a linear trajectory though that line, as others see it, is not always in the direction that one should or is expected to go and then does not feel like a straight path.
I get lost in my thoughts and often times, I feel like they bounce between different threads of thought. However, when I go back to what felt like "messy" writing, there's more logical order to it and I find that it makes sense.
Perhaps it does because it's me and I understand my own thinking.
Or maybe, just maybe, my thoughts are more logical and linear than I thought it was.
Even living has a progression that could be argued is linear. We wake up, do stuff, and go to sleep. I suppose depending on how you define linear (or perhaps what I mean to get at is logical) will determine whether or not something is linear or not.
Linearity perhaps has more to do with the logic of the time rather than any true sense of a straight trajectory.
See? This one feels messy, but I think that it makes sense in its own way. If it has its own logic that can be followed, doesn't that mean that this too is linear thinking?*
*Though I do want to make the distinction between linear and one-dimensional thinking. By linear, I simply mean that thoughts follow a logical order that seems to follow a definitive and understandable path. One-dimensional thinking seems to have the sense of flatness and a lack of depth.
I get lost in my thoughts and often times, I feel like they bounce between different threads of thought. However, when I go back to what felt like "messy" writing, there's more logical order to it and I find that it makes sense.
Perhaps it does because it's me and I understand my own thinking.
Or maybe, just maybe, my thoughts are more logical and linear than I thought it was.
Even living has a progression that could be argued is linear. We wake up, do stuff, and go to sleep. I suppose depending on how you define linear (or perhaps what I mean to get at is logical) will determine whether or not something is linear or not.
Linearity perhaps has more to do with the logic of the time rather than any true sense of a straight trajectory.
See? This one feels messy, but I think that it makes sense in its own way. If it has its own logic that can be followed, doesn't that mean that this too is linear thinking?*
*Though I do want to make the distinction between linear and one-dimensional thinking. By linear, I simply mean that thoughts follow a logical order that seems to follow a definitive and understandable path. One-dimensional thinking seems to have the sense of flatness and a lack of depth.