Uncle Roger's Notebooks of Daily Life

Thursday, June 30, 2005

Cucumbers should be sliced thick, onions paper thin.

I've come to this conclusion by observation and testing. My theory of why this is so is that both these vegetables contain liquid in cells (just like most plant and animal life.) Slicing them necessarily destroys some cells (just like cutting bubble-wrap destroys some bubbles) and releases that liquid.

In the case of cucumbers, this liquid is what keeps them moist and juicy, so you want to release as little of that as possible. In onions, that liquid is, I think, probably the same liquid that makes you cry when you release it by slicing the onions. It is also the least pleasant part of the onion taste (at least for sandwiches), so you want to release as much of that as possible, leaving only the yummy rest of the onion.

Journal Description

My life is, to me, ripe with frequent challenges, occasional successes, spontaneous laughter, adequate tears, and enough *life* to last me a lifetime. To you, however, it surely seems most pedestrian. And therefore, I recycle the name I used previously and call this my Notebooks of Daily Life. Daily, because it's everyday in nature, ordinary. These conglomeration of events that are my life are of interest to me because I live it, perhaps mildly so to those who are touched by it, and could only be of perverse, morbid curiosity to anyone else. Yet, I offer them here nonetheless. Make of them what you will, and perhaps you can learn from my mistakes.

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