Kat's Kitchen: Episode One

The ongoing adventures of our cooking skill-less heroine, K, and her attempts to eke out a living on her own in Cape Town, South Africa. Where going outside after dark (approximately 6 pm, season winter) is never a good idea.

Meal of the day - dinner.

Step one: Turn on the fire... though standard procedure this step has its difficulties. This time, for instance, K had to turn the knob way past any drawn symbol to light the stove and then turn it back down to an agreeable temperature. This step took around 5 minutes and some frustration.

Pretty blue flame....

Step two: Fry salami - try to move it around in the pan but get scared when the oil starts spitting at you. Finally manage to pull it out when it is nice and black around the edges with the consistency of a charcoal briquette. Is it even ok to fry salami? Whatever, it's practically pepperoni isn't it.. but bigger. Slice up some cheese. Take crackers out of carton and arrange them nicely on a plate (can do). Wash spinach, put it in a bowl. Cut up pieces of today's leftovers from lunch: cheese and chicken quesadilla (a girl's gotta plan ahead). Et voila!

Mn, hungry

Step Three: Realize, after scarfing down a deeelicious dinner, that you could have set off the smoke alarm had there been a smoke alarm. Notice a thin veil that has gone into your bedroom and a scent as though someone has lit up the cold cut portion of a deli.

Reverse S curved. (ok, no one's going to get that reference)

Step Four: Put to use good lessons learned in college. That's what a college education is for, after all.

I knew I needed those books over the summer.

fin