As always when faced with difficult decisions and tight deadlines, I somehow manage to avoid the task at hand by manically fixating on something else. This time it’s cooking.

It came to me late last night when I couldn’t fall asleep: hey, I know, I’ll spend all night searching for recipes, shop tomorrow, and this weekend I’ll cook like a motherfucker!

Out of character? Sure. Impossible? Maybe… probably. Cooking makes me grumpy. It’s all rule-following & measuring & precision timing. I’m more a fly by the seat of your pants, nuke it in the microwave kinda girl.

That said, like any self respecting obsessive/compulsive, I refuse to be talked down. So after intensively scouring the internet and shopping for hours, I’ll be making the following: (in no particular order) Asian Lemon Chicken, Chicken Satay, Ham & Potato Soup, Fried Rice, Peach Cobbler, Mongolian Extra-Spicy Beef, Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies and Twice Baked Potatoes.

I plan to lay it all out buffet style and pretend I’m at a wake…

On this day..

• Help me spend money... - 2007