As a sequel, this post feels a bit more like performance than recipe. Like I papered the town with flyers for my show and now it’s time to step on stage and I’m wondering if I should have actually practiced my lines (or cooked this recipe more than once).
Thinking about it though, this is very much my style— going full steam ahead with little preparation, fingers crossed n’ hoping for the best. And by all means the Do First, Think Later Method is brilliant and has really worked its magic on many occasion (it is partly to thank for the existence of FRANK). Other times, it’s is a too-long, miss-the-mark wedding speech that I thought I’d “just wing” (Sorry Jenna and Malka) or it’s drunkenly, yet confidently, putting cubes of cold tofu in Spaghetti Marinara. What I’m saying is, MISTAKES HAVE BEEN MADE using The Method. And I can’t tell if this is another one, writing about beans for dead people with a recipe I’ve made exactly once and didn’t really eat, while Palestinians are being exter…
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