My First Published Story

I know that maybe I should of blogged here about the short story I wrote Ghost Energy I wanted to at least publish one story and I made my way to this one. I had started numerous stories but I lost most of them or they got stolen.

I got inspired by Stephen King most of my life but in the long run I feel I will end up writing like William Faulkner. There's something about Faulkner's style of writing that I enjoy so much, although complex at times it's easy to go on, and the point of view of every character is very unique. I'm referring to the story As I Lay Dying which threw me off guard from everything I had read including Hemingway.

Keep reading and writing.

Pancakes

I recently found out a simple recipe on pancakes that requires baking powder and I did manage to find it in the baking section. I also found yeast, I'm going to try my hands on pizza dough to see how the dough rises. But pancakes, I will write about my experience soon since I got all the ingredients. I would of done it today but I got some sausages and decided to have that instead. Good food good stuff.

On Eggs

The last post I added a label, egg, but it had nothing to do with eggs. This time I'll write down what I know about eggs. Eggs are the basis of all cooking at least that's the way I see it. To learn to cook you can start with an egg and figure out how you want it, scrambled, sunny side up, over easy. Just go crazy with eggs. I suppose it's one of those things that it's really hard to mess up. Remember also salt and pepper are the basis for all spices and seasoning.

I got a spice rack for a wedding gift and it does wonders. A spice I recommend to add a little kick to any dish is paprika, it works well with anything. Some herbs and spices are better whole and fresh while others are better dry and ground up. Paprika being one of the ones that is good dry and ground up. Pepper being one of the ones that is better freshly ground. As for salt, I always use sea salt, it gives a great taste and it's not as intense as regular salt.

But back to eggs. Yes eggs are the best way to start off on cooking. Recently I have been looking in to making fresh noodles, and it calls for, yes eggs, and flour, it seems simple. I got to figure out though how to do it on a better surface and what is the ratio. Since I buy eggs in bulk they are usually a little smaller than whole large eggs. But usually a recipe for noodles calls for 1 cup of flour to a 2 egg ratio for a single serving.

Let me know what other food you would like me to research.

On Food and Cooking for Beginners/Aspirators

I recently watched a 2011 Alton Brown interview with Google, at least that's what I think it was. I heard from him that nothing on the internet is hard set for food and cooking. Since I like food and cooking I thought I could come up with a blog that is all about food and cooking I thought of calling it Food and Cooking for Beginners now I'm thinking otherwise on the title. I simply wanted to come up with something for the aspiring people that are new to food and cooking and that's what I wanted to start off the blog about what is food and cooking defined in a more in depth way and beginning with the basics of foods and the simplest recipes.

I would like to do it but I don't know again if anyone is really reading any of thisl.

Individualism

I'm watching Divergent as I write this and it got boring for me pretty quick. Not that the movie was boring it was just too predictable or felt that way to me anyway. The storyline is predictable but what's more is that all that the movie is individualism. It's the same for the movie Hunger Games it seems like all the movies really are about individualism and that you should be who you are. It also seems like the future would be more conforming.

Conforming speaks more to governmental ideals but it seems like you should remember you're an individual. At least that's what this movies says to me I suppose people have a different interpretation of the movie I would like to hear everyone's take on it.   

Awkward Comedy

I recently watched the movie Sex Tape (with Jason Segel and Cameron Diaz), the movie left me a little uncomfortable. I had no way of putting this movie in a any category, the scene where they try to get the iPad back from Annie's future boss was too long and again awkward. There was no way to describe how it left me feeling except a little tired and uncomfortable. What I thought about this morning was that maybe there should be a new category in where this movie can fall in to; Awkward Comedy. Awkward Comedy is what I came up with.

There is another movie that I think came up with this category other than the movie Awkward Comedy, That Awkward Moment. The whole movie That Awkward Moment is full of awkward moments and feeling of uncomfortable but the feeling is in the tittle of the movie. The thing about Sex Tape is that those awkward moments last a little bit too long and nowhere to put them. That some of those scene would have been unnecessary and could of been shortened.

To these movies I guess I would categorized them as Awkward Comedy and more movies I bet will be like this it seems like awkward comedy has been around for a while but the whole movie Sex Tape has to be the one to take the cake.

Waiting

I have no idea what to do right now. I'm suppose to go to the bank and the mall but the bank opens at 9 A.M. and the mall opens at 10 A.M. I want to leave like at 9:30 because I know I will be done with everything in half of an hour. I already did somethings like play games and stuff.

I had dropped off my wife where she works at 7 A.M. (I didn't have work today) she told me go pay the bill at the mall since it gets complicated online (they always want your bank info). As I have said before about the places that open later. I remember this coffee house, Starbucks on 78th and Cicero, in Cicero, IL by Chicago. I remember this coffee house had the best internet connection of any coffee houses that I've been to. I would of gone to the library but I looked up the hours and the library opened at 12 P.M. that was not an option. Since I always carry my laptop I had a specific place I wanted to go but not many places. I ended up in this coffee shop.

I don't have much to do now I'm waiting for something to come up. I feel that I can't write my own stories publicly but I don't mind writing on the blog as old as this blog is. I have half an hour left...