late-night foodies (a no-recipe post).

speaking of food .. say, from a post on the other blog, among other times .. late night cooking is a very fickle thing. i almost never cook anything, but on occasion, hunger and creativity stir simultaneously in me, and at 1am i get the urge to stir something up.

sometimes i do, but more often i don't. were it my bedroom that was closest to the kitchen, then fate might have turned otherwise, but that bedroom remains luis fernando's and his circadian rhythm is shifted 4-6 hours earlier than mine.

i'm serious: he has the discipline to wake at 5-something and sleep at 9 in the evening.

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for late night cooking: sometimes i bake corn muffins, which is reasonably quiet, or maybe omelettes, because they're quick and not too messy. occasionally it's angel-hair pasta, though lately i've been snobbish and insist on making my own pasta sauces from scratch ..

..give or take a tin of good, preserved tomatoes, of course.

but some things i never do: roasting potatoes takes too long, and i'd be tempted to make a grand production and wake up luis. no sauteing veg, either; smoke and a blaring alarm are too great a risk: the curse of the dry saute!

quick things are fine, though, even sautes.

for instance, if i can summon up the willpower, i might fry up some really ripe plantains later tonight, and eat them with ice cream!