Well… that old saying, “necessity breeds invention” works wonders in the kitchen. When you scour your cupboards and turn the fridge upside down for some sort of meal. When I said turn the fridge upside down… that is really my head so I can see the bottom of the shelves to hunt for ingredients.
Let’s not move too quickly here… a little diversion never hurts the inventor…
What would help us be able to see into our busy fridge? Past the yogurt containers (half the times filled with other things – more room for invention or just perhaps labeling) the ketchup bottles, etc. to the very back of the shelves. Well… looking under the shelves helps. But there are often non-descript bottle bottoms staring back at me. Maybe labels on the bottom of bottles. Sounds a touch extreme – but cute…
If only we could see around the sides. A-ha! Mirrors on the inside sides of the fridge. How hard could that be? I’ll be prototyping that soon!
But for now, back to the task at hand… inventing food.
Say you are out of bread and out of wraps. But you feel like a bacon sandwich – which I do kind of but I don’t because I have been a vegetarian for a year and half. But this next sketch book example is from a while back. Probably not the best idea to propagate but oh well – it gets across the point. So you are out of bread and want a bacon sandwich…
Click here to see the sketch in Zen Pan
Here is a simple – which is often a good idea when it comes to inventing – solution that was most delicious and I suppose sort of healthy – as healthy as anything can be with bacon.
Sometimes I get a calling. The calling of alliteration. If things go well in word they can entice people to use them or try them so… we have a Banana Bacon Sandwich! Sounds nice and easy. And boy did they go together well. Perfect size, perfect combination of consistencies, pleasant flavor – really quick to make and a delightfully original finger food sensation.
I understand the need for sustenance…. I even understand that necessity is the mother of invention….
But a bacon banana sandwich!? I’d rather starve.
Try making some banana chocolate chip pancakes, they’re much better. And a lot less greasy.
I agree with Heather. I don’t think a bacon banana sandwich is appetizing.
Mirrors inside a fridge… that’s extreme! I think someone who’s vain would love that, but they’d waste a lot of electricity checking themselves out in the fridge. Hahaha! However, a fridge where you can look inside would be pretty cool. I’ve seen a fridge with a LCD screen on the door. I don’t think that’s necessary, especially since it cost over $15,000.
Bananas make me gag; ever since I was in 5th grade and had banana flavored medicine, I now can’t even smell a raw banana without gagging. Banana Muffins or Bread taste good though.
I’m a fan of reverse-engineering food. Want a “Jeff-mc-Muffin?” A “tWinky?” I’m your guy. You haven’t lived until a twinky has exploded under pressure within 2 inches from your mouth.
Bananas and bacon, doesn’t sound like something that could go well together. Personally, I’d rather stick to wrapping bacon in lettuce. Gives the feel I’m still eating a sandwich that way.
Exploding twinkies sounds delightful!
I was thinking more along the lines of a banana brownie fudge sundae. Although, some people might gag at that idea, it depends on what each individual person’s tastes are. For example, one person (Person A) might hate spicy foods, while another (Person B) finds bitter foods unbearable. Person B doesn’t understand why person A hates spicy foods, and vice-versa. Taste is a very interesting thing, because, hard-wired into each of our bodies is a unique combination of likes and dislikes. It’s really a matter of time before we discover them for ourselves. Hence learning what we like, or don’t like, and then the rest is history.
As for a banana bacon sandwich, I’ll pass, although I wouldn’t pass up a banana brownie fudge sundae. Maybe it’s just me, but it sounds good, right?
The banana brownie fudge sundae sounds really good Will, actually I think the kitchen (only preceded by the shower and maybe also the bedroom in some specific cases) is the best place to be creative.
I love to cook crepes and I think it is a very relaxing hobby …and girls love crepes (or maybe is only the pleasure of seeing a man cooking I don’t know) the thing here is that in my own experience I’ve found that RELAX is the key for creativity. Every solution or new idea that has came into my mind in the last years has come exactly during the shower I mean, sounds strange… specially when you try to find your sketchbook and write it down, Why don’t we create a water-repellent sketchbook?? Yeah I’m getting creative… or not? Bah… Nice blog Dan!
The idea of a bacon banana sandwich may sound ludicrous to some but believe it or not it has been a part of my life since I was born. Heres the true history of the bacon banana sandwich. In the 70’s my dad was a young man, a man that hated blt’s actually. Whenever his parents had BLT’s for supper he would fix himself a banana sandwich. It would consist of mayonnaise on a piece of bread with pieces of banana (chopped short-ways so they became banana chips) covering the bread, then he would top it off with another pice of bread. One day there were some leftover pieces of bacon from his parents blt’s so he put them on his sandwich all the way accross, thusly, the original Bacon Banana sandwich was born.
My Banana-and-Bacon skewers have been my favorite food since i can remember. It’s even better than just sticking them together in a sanga, because when you fry the two- the banana’s caramelize and taste so so unbelievably better.
I must admit tho- i’m kinda glad nobody believes me when i describe how incredibly yummo they are… there’s something about knowing i’m one of a rare few ever blessed by the taste that just makes it all that much better.
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Banana Bacon, sounds delicious! I am going to try it. Have you also tried to fry the banana wrapped by flour, it’s even more tasty. I don’t see myself as an inventor in the real life, but speaking of cooking, I can put some imaginations into it.
Banana Bacon sounds good. It’s the sweet and salt.
I’d add peanut butter.
(and my friend Jeff Krinis used to eat peanut butter and butter sandwiches which I never developed a taste for).
At any rate, one sign of maturity is the willingness to try new foods. It’s funny how children begin their lives eating ONLY Campbell’s tomato soup (made with milk) and craft cheese slices. And ONLY these things. How do children survive.
20 years later that same child can’t get enough sushi, or squid (love it barbecued). Perhaps this process has something to do with becoming comfortable or secure enough with ourselves to take a chance.
I don’t know.
I bet you can make any two basic food elements taste good together as long as they are prepared in the right way. They have to be the basic ones though, like milk and potatoes for instance, not ice cream and potato chips (although, ew, I’m sure there are people who would put those together). Even liver and grapes could be doable provided you but the grapes in a nice sauce or …something.