“Coconut Bliss. I LOVE THIS ICE CREAM. I don’t know what I have done until now. So amazing.” Grabbing one: “This is the chocolate hazelnut fudge, for when I’m feeling crazy, but just the plain with some of the raspberries from the backyard on top is my absolute favorite.” She moans.
Storm closes the freezer, returns to the stovetop, and pours her noodle soup into a bowl. She lifts noodles from the bowl, blows on them, and then begins to eat.
On Thanksgiving?
“We do Thanksgiving in town, or we’ll have stragglers over here. It’s an orphan’s Thanksgiving, where it’s kind of like: you bring a side dish or a salad and I will cook the turkey. My favorite way to make a turkey, hands down, is brining it for 24 hours; it makes the biggest difference in the texture and flavor of the bird. But you also have to cover it with butter before you cook it.
“Once, I sat next to this little old lady on a plane. I was coming back from my grandfather’s funeral, and she was eating—it was right after Thanksgiving—a deep-fried turkey sandwich. She was like: ‘Why aren’t you eating? You’re a young girl. You need to eat something.’ I was like, ‘I don’t really feel like eating plane food. I promise I’m fine.’ Then we were talking and she found out that my grandfather had just died. So she tried to give me half of her sandwich. I was like, ‘I can’t take your sandwich, ma’am.’ And she said, ‘You ain’t taking it; you’re gonna accept it. It’s deep-fried turkey. It’s good, and it’s good for you. I ain’t gonna hear nothing else.’ I’ll say, it was pretty good. She had some cranberry jelly sauce and mayonnaise on there, all on white bread. God, what a sweetie.”
Any television in your future?
“I love to be all hammy on TV, but I want it to be good for someone. Do you know what I want to do? A show for people about how to feed their families healthily without a lot of money. People respond to glamorous TV shows. Maybe: Eco-Challenge in the Kitchen?”
In an announcer’s voice: “’How are you going to feed this family of six in fifteen minutes for less than fifteen dollars? GO!’ I would love to host that kind of show. I know: It’ll be like ‘Iron Chef,’ but called ‘Aluminum Chef.’ ‘Tinfoil Chef!’”
October 13th, 2008 at 1:25 pm
While you are waiting for the T.V. show to materialize, why not write a cook book:
“Large culinary creations”
just sayin