I really liked Clotilde's idea about randomly generating new dishes. I read her post before Shabbat and then all through Shabbat was thinking about what I was going to do with it.
At breakfast this morning I had the thought: "If only I could randomly generate the recipes using the computer. Oh, wait, I do this all the time already. I enter two or three ingredients into Google or the Epicurious database and then generate recipes."
Then I thought: "Oh, that's not the point. She wants to come up with original recipes. Also, with only three ingredients. I almost never make anything with only three ingredients."
Then I thought: "Well, my way is fun, too. You get to try all kinds of new things that you wouldn't have considered otherwise, like cooking chickpea flour like polenta or putting mayonaise into cooked food. The computer has helped me a lot, I used to do this only with the indexes of my cookbooks, and you can only search one ingredient at a time that way."
So I am going to try Clotilde's game her way, and also try it my way, and see what ideas emerge and whether I actually want to eat any of them. I'll post again to let you know. I think for the sake of being ready for Pesach, I had better stick to "favorite ingredients" that I want to consume before the big clean up, and vegetables that I can use afterward.
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