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.
