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Ernie’s Basic Cooking Tips So Your Night Won’t Suck Like Mine Did

And speaking of food…

Ernie’s Basic Cooking Tips So Your Night Won’t Suck Like Mine Did

1. When cutting potatoes, be careful with sharp knives. I suggest using a knife that is relatively the same size as the potato. Don’t do what I did, and use the first knife you see, a GIANT razor-sharp knife meant to kill wildlife rather than cut potatoes. That way, you won’t slice your thumb and FREAK out when blood starts gushing over the kitchen counter. (I’ve finally got my thumb to stop bleeding, after a couple of hours of pressure. It’s right underneath the thumbnail too, for maximum discomfort.)
2. Even if you’re panicking over #1, you must NEVER forget #2: If you’re going to roast a chicken, defrost the motherfucker first. I can’t stress that enough. Usually, I have enough sense to do this, but my little adventures in sharp objects and bodily fluids caused a lapse of judgement. Incidentally, if you try to roast the potatoes in the same time as your frozen chicken, the potatoes burn, and the skin of the chicken turns black, but the meat of the chicken is ice cold. Which is great, if I was writing a physics paper on how heat works. But I was trying to make dinner instead, so instead I went hungry for a night. It’s a good thing my thumb is gashed from this giant knife wound, so I’ll be able to remember this event for a long time.
3. This has nothing to do with cooking, but I don’t like it when people steal my shit. If someone “heavily borrows” my web design it doesn’t really bother me that much, for some reason. But when someone copies a former blog entry of mine and uses it as his blog entry, word for word, this does NOT make me a happy camper. (Oh yeah, he also ends up taking some of Rahat’s entries, and oh yeah, steals Min’s photograph, using it as his own. What’s this guy trying to be, some kind of fucked up Frankenstein Asian weblogger?)

   Update, 8/1 1:50pm: It looks like the guy shut down the website with a single message: “hello, i wholeheartedly apologize. i do not have a life to speak of.” Which is either genuine, or genuinely sarcastic. You make the call. Kinda ironic, actually. Having a web journal is about the freedom to express your thoughts: what good are a persons thoughts if they aren’t even your own?

Okay, I just needed to vent. Funny what hunger pangs and a bloody finger will do to you.