Putting Me in Meal

History

Somewhere on or about April 8th, after watching several episodes of the anime Toriko I decided that I wanted to create a Full Course Menu. Basically, the menu for an eight-course meal that would represent my favorite flavors, cooking ability, and personality.  Sometime later, I decided that as I created the full course menu I would document the experience and thought process it took to create the menu. Basically, it is an autobiography of a single meal of my life.

Synopsis

See above. Also, I have considered expanding it to include a few tidbit of interesting information about the courses apart from the meal. So, historical facts about salad, interesting experiments with drinks, trivia about fish.

Progress

3061 words.

Difficult to judge. So far I have only decided on 2 out of 8 courses so there isn't much to write about. However, I know I haven't finished writing all of the information for the salad chapter. I also need to finish a chapter that outlines the guidelines I put in place for creating my full-course menu. I won't start working on the filler material until the autobiographical information is done. There is little left to do on this draft until I decide on more courses. The benefit of this is that I'll have plenty of time for revisions of chapters.

2013 Goals

1. Finish salad section by the end of July.

2. Finish the guidelines section by the end of August.

3. Review other sections for missing information by end of September.

4. Revise all completed sections by end of November.

Excerpt

  Let’s start with my childhood. If I had to make a full course menu in childhood it would have been fairly simple. Every birthday consisted of the same meal: macaroni and cheese and hotdogs. That would have been the main course of the menu. I also enjoyed hamburgers, but not from McDonald’s because the dehydrated onions were disgusting. I loved taco night, but for me that consisted of shells and cheese. It wasn’t until I was in my teens that I consented on putting taco sauce on my cheese and tortilla. Still, the taco sauce needed to be smooth. I didn’t like lumps in my food.
  Mashed potatoes also fell into this category. The potatoes needed to be well cooked and well mashed. Inconsistency in the mashing would lead to the tubers left on my plate. Tomato soup was okay, because it had nothing in it that I could identify. It was a consistent red mess, and that was fine by my standards.