Wednesday, April 19, 2006

Clicking Away in the Kitchen


After dropping a very cool Google Calendar circa last week, the kids at Google Inc. have dropped what could easily one of the coolest resources atop a lot of bachelor checklists.

I will call it Google Kitchen. The Ultimate listing of all sorts of recipes, from Grilled Swordfish With Cucumber Lime Salsa(though that one is reaching my kitchen NOTHING!) to exotically cooler sounding ones like Braised Chicken Teriyaki…adventurous ones like Drunken Chicken, not to mention the pant-dropping Asian Hot Pot With Chicken And Sweet-And-Spicy Dipping Sauce!

After a polite relocation earlier in the year (c’mon, I have to pin my blogsenteeism on something!), the need to sharpen the cooking skills has become a necessity. Heck! They have become an implement that Darwin would look at and rub his hands in glee as sufficient proof of his Theory of Natural Selection. Only the Strong Survive. Survival for the Fittest. (Did I just go all sciency and geeky on you? Wacha I stop right thurr!)

Why you ask? Obvious answers to obvious questions:
  • Home cooking is cheaper
  • Home cooking is healthier (guffaw! I laughed my way into typing that one!)
  • Don’t want no random dude in a kebab shop touching my dish with his bare hands (shuku mikono hujui zimetoka wapi - Mashifta)
  • You get to learn something new each time you cook
  • Bloody tamu feeling when you cook something tasty and right
  • And the ladies diggg a brotha who can cook (this one is more motivational and honestly belongs to the top of this list…would compare this to a chunky mama would look at a poster of Halle Berry ama even Beyoncé endlessly, cursing under her breath as she works out in the gym...just to be able to fikia the same jeans size…)
    These recipes will saidia with all the ideas and versatility they bring. Lakini the truth is this wont magically make me a gourmet chef (though I hope Google are working on something to fix that), but I could do with the practice and the ideas.

    Too bad there is no nyam chom recipe. Actually, you don’t need one. The shida here is actually finding a goat and sorting it out without the authorities making a meal out of it (couldn’t resist that one!)

    Karibuni a polite lunch, dinner, breakfast whenever.
    Disclaimer: You might need to beba a ka-stock of Actal / any other dawa ya tumbo, lest you unleash mad pungence a la the Milonare :-)

    Currently Listening to:
    The Roots – Guns are Drawn
    Matisyahu – King without a Crown (Live Version)
    Jaguar Wright – Free
    K’naan – I Was Stabbed By Satan

  • 4 Comments:

    Blogger Unknown said...

    LOL @ Kagz ...well said ...burning water ha ha ha

    Hanyee U done said it ..a broda that can cook is sure a sight for sore eyes....and I believe I not only speak for myself but all the ladies !!

    PS
    CAN U COOK ??

    PPS
    Matisyahu and his hasidic reggae rocks !!!!

    22 April, 2006 06:26  
    Blogger Ms K said...

    Dude, first that mguu for Jamhuri weekend and then this. I'm starting to think you have an obsession with food..... Not that its a prob!!!

    LOL you gats something against swordfish???

    There truly are few things sexier than a man who knows his way around the kitchen. AND doesn't have a prob being the one in the kitchen. Panties dropping faster than the speed of sound!!!

    I also love trying out recipes. The only prob is when they mantion obscure ingredients like Chinese rice wine! ALA!

    So, I am so inviting myself!! Then we can also sort out this biz of you sounding like you know me.

    Hmmmm is there something you know that I don't??

    Thank you for your kind and lovely words! I try to stay real. You, my friend, sound like a pretty cool dude. Too bad you're taken and all!

    ;-)

    26 April, 2006 10:20  
    Blogger Mocha! said...

    Hey,

    Thanks for dropping by my alter blog. It's nice to see you back in blogland.

    As for a brother who can whip something in the kitchen....is an added bonus for me. Quite a turn-on. Its amazing the wonders you can work in the kitchen when you know where everything is.... ;) YOU DIG?!!!

    As for your playlists....nice selection.

    Boma yangu maalum ni http://mochalicious.wordpress.com

    02 May, 2006 12:33  
    Blogger kny@hart said...

    ms k u said it, so dude, eneeza hiyo injili, nothing sexier than a dude who can put a foot into whatever he pikas....
    man my last boifi invited me over for "breakfast" and i ended up having weetabix.
    lets just sema his a distant memory
    so...... when am i being invited over :) :)

    06 June, 2006 13:19  

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