Why I dont like microwave ovens....

First, I cant see what the microwave is doing to the food it spins so diligently on its place.

I'm the kinda person who likes to see the flames lick the pot on the stove when I cook, to see the sugar caramelize, the mint leaves slowly leave their color in the boiling water and smell the aroma of crackling mustard seeds in the frying pan.

The microwave goes about its business privately, denying you the pleasure of seeing your food transform itself in front of your eyes.

Second, it does the reverse of what a heating process should do. It heats food from the inside out rather than outside in. I dont want to get into insider outsider debates so early in the blog but this shit is important. I dont want to ingest stuff that gets the simple laws of conduction wrong!

And third, it does not boil liquids, it burns them. Stick a cup of tea in there for a couple of minutes and you'll know what I mean. If you want the liquid to boil you have to put in a plastic stirrer or spoon that will help to agitate the liquid. Wrong, wrong, wrong!!!

My roomie thinks Im crazy but since this is a blog about food and sex, I insist that the microwave denies me the sensory pleasures of cooking, of making....how would you feel if you had an instant orgasm every time you made love...with no preamble, no hint of the rugged landscapes ahead....

Just out"comes" and no delight on the way....ugghh!!

Welcome to Fooling Around With Food!

First, let me talk a little about the Purpose and Vision of this blog. After being fed-up and disgusted by recipe blogs written by South Asian housewives trying to figure out how to best please their husbands by making to-be-expected dishes on "mainstream/dominant culture" festival days, we - as desi, queer, gender-bending, non-confroming, poly-sexual, left and far far left, sex-positive womyn - have decided to create this space, which we're calling "Fooling Around With Food": a place to share stories about making good food and making good love :)