Belated realizations

[unixronin]

Here I am, with my right thumb all bandaged, and finding numerous things very awkward.  I've been drinking my tea left-handed because I can't hold the mug properly with my right.  I'd been planning to make a big batch of turkey risotto this weekend -- I bought onions, mushrooms, and bananas specifically so that I could -- but I hadn't planned on having a bandaged right thumb.

So here I was wondering what I could come up with for supper, and not wanting to use prepackaged foods because I want to create leftovers that I can eat for a quick meal on work nights next week.  And in any case, my sinuses and ears are a little plugged (sufficiently so that trying to use The Crystal Method's Legion of Boom to mask the penetrating whine of the remarkably loud vacuum cleaner running a few doors down resulted in distinct physical discomfort from the bass), and I wanted a good hot curry to clear them.

Finally, realization dawned:  "You're all but ambidextrous*, you imbecile.  Cook left-handed."  Bing!  On goes the light....

So now there's chicken Madras curry cooking on the stove.  I'll eat late, but I'll eat, and without getting the dressing on my thumb wet or soiled.  I need to make a point to get at least two regular meals per day for the next two weeks, because for the next two weeks I'm on 300mg of clindamycin twice a day, and I have instructions from the pharmacist to be sure I take it only after food.  (Reduces the likelihood of stomach upset, I infer.)

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* There are, to my knowledge, two things that I do well with my right hand, and which I do not do well with my left.  One of these is handwriting, though I can do it if strictly necessary and if neatness isn't a requirement.  Shooting is not the other.  Further, deponent saith not.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Further, deponent saith not.

No, no, that was quite enough right there. :)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Ummmmmm........

OK, I don't want to see anyone start in about "This is my weapon and this is my gun," OK? Neither fighting nor fun is to be found on today's agenda of activities.

Very good, then. Carry on, Sar'n't-Major.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

<Brak> I don't have the slightest idea what you're talking about. </Brak>

:)

[dirtynumbangel.livejournal.com]

...banana? With turkey? In a risotto? I tend to trust you in a kitchen (or anywhere requiring absolute and unflappable competency, really), but... banana?

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yup. Banana and turkey, in a risotto.

Trust me, it's really good. You'll have to try it sometime. (I just made a big pot of it today... I probably have a week's worth of it in the fridge now.)