making mushroom bourguignon
Flipping through the pages of a notebook to find them all full I flipped it over and wrote on the back.
this is what I wrote.
Going to a different place flips you all around, and, then, maybe, someone starts writing on your back. A wise man told me that yes, all places flip around, but the people are the same.
The people writing on the back?
driving to the grocery store was worth it. I saw two old friends and said the same thing to both of them.
“dont worry, i’m sleeping on a friend’s floor”
“oh good. don’t pay the beast“
they said in reply, both of them. I also got groceries. Then I flipped the car around and rode my way back.
The groceries are to be a mushroom bourguignon once I have established a firm enough mise en place, then take a nap.
We spend so much time with our ears pressed to pillows but never hear anything.
then we flip them over and try again on the back.
Two cook books printed the same recipe for Deb Perlman’s mushroom bourguignon. It is to be served with polenta. Ina Gardener’s polenta calls for two cloves of garlic. Deb Perlman also calls for two cloves of garlic. Since garlic was in my groceries I have four cloves of garlic. I am not sure which two cloves would be better for which recipe. Which shows a lack in my mise en place.
two cloves of garlic
two cloves of garlic
The robin outside says the same thing over again.
“twee tee twe-twe tweeee”
so do I.
“that rocks“
“sorry there“
“absolutely“
“you bet“
“good morning”
I flip to the next page and realize that I have already written on the back.
I try to go to a new place every day.
When I go outside I wonder if I am the person who has already been there or the person there now.
The process of learning your way around a city is realizing that you are in a place that you have been already.
All the mise en place means I have to start dinner. Flip the carrots over. medium to low heat until the yellow onions get brown on the back.
My brother came down here and is watching tic toks. he opened a box of Captain Crunch Crunch Berries.
Lay out spoon, bowl, and milk. Scroll.
Such a simple mise en place.
My mother said I should meditate when I told her that my friend told me that I should take saffron pills because his friend told him that she swears by them. I set a timer for an hour and closed my eyes.
lay out cushion, legs, eyes, head. close eyes, cross legs, and set timer for one hour
In breath, out breath. Bring the breath in then flip it over and breathe it back out.
My timer called for one hour, my eyes opened after forty-five minutes. Meditation is mise en place?
we all have our daily stretches that we do not do.
when you open a door to a room and walk through then close the door you are flipping yourself around it and ending up on the back.
When I braid my hair I am glad that my hands have been there already because that means they have learned it. I am going to a new place where apparently the people are the same. First I have to make dinner.
The state of mise en place turns out to be only temporary for these groceries-turned place-turning mushroom bourguignon. After dinner, I will wash the dishes and put them back and everything will be back to mise en place. Before dinner, I will set the table and establish its mise en place.
lay out olive bowl, stoneware bowl, little porcelain dish
add spoons
I am glad that the mushrooms and carrots and onions and garlic will have been mise en place already because it means that they will have learned it.
When I go somewhere I have already been it is because I have flipped and started writing on the back. Maybe I have not learned?
When I meditate I try to not stop flipping.
I ran out of back so I had to flip the notebook closed and write on the cover.
one recipe says to sear the mushrooms in batches as to not overcrowd the pan. Then it says to lay all the mushrooms aside and focus on deglazing.
the other recipe says that the mushrooms will make a “skweak skweak“ sound as you push the mushrooms around the high heat.
the other point of the batches is to build up more bottom of the pot residue. Then there is more to deglaze.
One Deb Perlman says one thing, the other says the other.
All of the mushrooms said “skweak skweak”
Other than the batches, the Deb Perlman’s both say the same thing.
I poured two cups of the full-bodied red when Deb Perlman actually only called for one. So I had to flip one cup upright and pour it back.
Now that the dinner is made I have to wait for people to eat it. The robin is still going. I want a day where I whistle more than I talk.
the groceries got flipped into dinner and i’ve flipped over this book so many times that I have been all over.