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Wednesday, December 17, 2008

I totally would (with bonus Delicious Deliciousness)

So yesterday Nilsa over at SoMi declared it a De-Lurking Day. As I have a problem keeping my mouth shut, the holiday didn't really apply to me, but she did say that regular commenters could ask her a question. Any question. This is dangerous territory my friends.

Maxie's been doing a "Would you Wednesday" for a while now, and it's a game my friends and I play all. the. time. Usually it's along the lines of, "What if you met [insert name of current celebrity obsession], and the two of you fell in love, but he would only ever have sex with you doggie style? He would never want to look at your face when you were having sex?" Which typically leads to a 30 minute conversation in which we hammer out rules/details (could I look back at him? could we do it in front of a mirror? is it because he was molested as a child?) before finally deciding on a scenario all parties are satisfied with. Sometimes it leads to one party calling another party a psycho pervert, but it's all part of the game.

Anyway...so my question to Nilsa was:
Would you agree to wear a bag over your head (with eye holes cut out, but no mouth hole) every time you left your house in exchange for an enormous sum of money (enough to keep your immediate family financially comfortable without working for the rest of your lives)?

And you couldn't tell anyone (other than your significant other) why you were wearing the bag.

But last night Dexter had a bad case of Old Man Bladder, so after I had let him out a couple of times, I couldn't get back to sleep. I played the "What if?" game by myself. I thought up some new rules.

  1. You could take the bag off to drive, because driving with a bag over your head is just dangerous.
  2. You could not take the bag off to fly on an airplane. You'd probably look like a terrorist threat, so you'd either have to learn how to fly yourself (like driving, you could remove the bag while actually piloting the airplane) or resign yourself to only road trips for the rest of your life.
  3. You could not embellish the bag, other than to cut the two eye holes. No drawing a face or bedazzling the bag.
I'm sure there were more but now I can't remember them.

So anyway, would you? And all you lurkers out there, would you, too? I want to know!

**Bonus Delicious Deliciousness**

Steve hasn't been feeling very well lately, and when he confessed to me on Monday that he was feeling "poopey," I promised to make him some chicken soup. How nice of me, right?

Well, it would be nice if I knew how to make soup. Which I don't. Really, I don't even like soup. But after the words were out of my mouth, I had to make some shit happen. We can't have little Stevie feeling poopey and disappointed, can we?*

Lucky for me, I found this recipe at epicurious.com and tweaked it a bit. Tortilla Soup with Chicken and Lime? Sounds like a winner!

And it was, internet friends, it was. Here's the recipe:

Ingredients
1 white onion (chopped)
1 jalapeno (de-seeded and chopped)
1 zucchini (chopped)
1 tbsp minced garlic

1 box chicken broth (I got the big one, I think it's like 36 oz.)
1 can corn
1 can black beans
1 can Rotel diced tomatoes (any variety would work, but I used "with lime and cilantro")
1 bay leaf
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon dried crushed red pepper (more or less to taste)
2 green onions (chopped)
a handful of cilantro (chopped)
1/2 cup lime juice
2 cups Mexican cheese blend
1 ready made rotisserie chicken from the supermarket, about 4 lbs. (or you could poach your own***)

4 5-6 inch diameter tortillas (corn or flour)
no-stick cooking spray (I used Pam)

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Stack up tortillas; cut in half. Cut each half into strips. Spread strips on a non-stick baking sheet and spray with cooking spray. Bake until light golden (about 12-15 minutes). Set aside to cool.

Saute jalapeno, zucchini, and 1/2 of the chopped white onion (reserving half to add just before serving) in garlic in the bottom of a large sauce pan (or you can use a good sized electric skillet, like I did). When onions and garlic are just turning soft, add broth, tomatoes, corn, black beans, bay leaf, cumin, and red pepper; bring to boil. Reduce heat; simmer 5 minutes.

While broth is simmering, remove the meat from the rotisserie chicken and shred. Set aside.

Before adding chicken to the broth, remove half of the solids from the broth and blend in a blender or food processor. This makes the soup less watery and more like a stew. Add blended solids back to the broth. Add chicken; allow to cook for about 5 more minutes. Stir in green onions, reserved 1/2 white onion, cilantro, and lime juice. Season with salt and pepper.

Ladle soup into bowls. Sprinkle with Mexican cheese blend and tortilla strips and serve.

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*No, we cannot.**
**I apologize for the footnotes. I don't know what's up with me.
***Show off.

18 comments:

Marie said...

I would definitely wear the bag on my head to work (I walk, don't drive). Just to freak out my co-workers.

As for the rest of the time...ya, most likely.

Nilsa @ SoMi Speaks said...

OK, now that's just funny that you kept thinking about this question. But, I'm reserving my answer for my blog, where I will (eventually) answer all questions asked of my yesterday. =)

LBluca77 said...

I make a mean can of soup!

Kate said...

Nah. A lot of money would be nice, but not at the cost of never having friends because everyone would think I was (more of a) freak.

Kylie said...

I like the bag idea...if I have the $$$ I can pay someone to run all of my errands for me! I would never leave the house! I too can make a mean can of Campbell's Soup! I actually like to cook...when I'm in the right mood.

Kate said...

No to the bag. I like to look around. I mean - that's just another form of a burka, right?

And I am going to write down that recipe and try it. Yes. I. Am.

saratogajean said...

marie - But the beauty of it is, you wouldn't have to work! You could stay home all day and make me delicious baked goods. I'd still eat them, even if you had a bag over your head.

nilsa - I can't help it. My mind wanders...

lbluca77 - Yeah, but what about the bag?

kate - Lucky for me, my friends already think I'm a freak. So I'm good...

kylie - Exactly! I could be like a reclusive celebrity, except I wouldn't be famous (more like infamous, like 'There goes that lady with the bag over her head again').

kate - You could still look around, though. It would be like a burka, except no one would think it was a religious thing, just a weird thing.

Try the soup...you won't be sorry.

Toe said...

Claustrophobia would get me. And taking away the bedazzler is just mean.

Unknown said...

I would totally do this. With that money I could bribe Kim Kardashian to show me her butt and then I wouldn't care about anything else.

Anonymous said...

If the question were time limited, I might consider it, but in perpetuity: no way, no how.

Dolce said...

that's the most complicated Chicken Noodle soup I've ever seen. Go to foodnetwork.com next time.

As for the bag. Would I have to wear it for the rest of my life?

Then no.

If I only had to wear it for a year...then YES!

So@24 said...

So... lazy... but... so... hungry

saratogajean said...

brazenbaretoe - Yeah, but walking around with a bag over your head would be your job. You'd be getting paid handsomely for it.

surviving myself - I'd find ways to avoid roaming the streets. But hey, if I had to...oh well. I'd still have to walk the dogs. No one would know it was me, though, right?

restaurantrefugee - You'd have unlimited funds as long as you wore the bag. But you couldn't save any money, just buy things. When you stop wearing the bag, the magic credit card would go away.

dolce - See above; you'd have a magic credit card as long as you wore the bag. Once you stopped, though *poof* bye bye unlimited funds.

so - It looks more complicated than it is.

Rahul said...

I would wear the bag on my head for everything. showers, sporting events, going to the gym.

MI might get more women this way.

They like the mystery.

Lump said...

who would know if I wasn't wearing the bag, anyway? would I be secreting filmed for the rest of my life? or wait, GOD WOULD KNOW, huh? ;)

well I think I could do it. but that doesn't mean I WOULD.

Hey, you could have bought Campbell's Chicken Noodle soup in a can.

rachaelgking said...

Nah. Money's great and all, but hide this hawtness? Never! (Kidding. Really, it's just that I'm enough of a klutz I don't think I'd make it a month alive if I had to wear a bag over my head, eye holes or no.)

alexa @clevelandsaplum said...

i don't think i could do it. i love money and all but i'm also a horrible liar and would be bound to tell someone.

i think it would be really really hard to do that for the rest of your life!

saratogajean said...

rs27 - I like mystery! But not Mystery, the pick-up artist. He's just weird.

lump - It's like magic. As soon as you took off the bag, the money would dry up. I don't know how it happens, it just does.

lilu - It'd be worth, trying, though, right? I mean, even if you only lasted a month, that's a month with your rent paid...

alexa - Maybe you could do an anonymous blog?

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