{"id":806,"date":"2010-06-18T19:38:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-06-18T19:39:30","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T00:39:30","slug":"the-most-dangerous-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2010\/06\/the-most-dangerous-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dangerous Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am both a recipe cook and an a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that cook. What I don’t often do, however is deliberate adaptation.
\nSure, I substitute ingredients here and there, but never with a specific flavor and texture profile in mind. This, I think of more as substitution.<\/p>\n

Adaptations are intimidating. Adaptations can quickly point out just how much you don’t know. Adaptations can signify personal failure and defeat.<\/p>\n

I absolutely love Heidi Swanson’s<\/a> Curried Egg Salad<\/a>. This is a major statement. Typically, I don’t eat many savory foods that could be described as “creamy.” In fact, if I think of the word, it is likely that I’ll lose my appetite. So egg salads, potato salads, most coleslaws, pasta salads, tuna salads and chicken salads are things that I rarely (read: almost never) eat. I am the one who never has any of these things on her plate at a potluck. I am the one who tries to ignore these things at a potluck. And if I am on a date, the consumption of any of these items during the date by the date really, really messes with his chances.<\/p>\n

So, it is remarkable that when I found myself with some baked chicken in the fridge that I thought, I bet I can use that egg salad recipe and come up with something<\/em>. I thought about doing some shopping to get the rest of the ingredients. Then I realized that I could use Greek yogurt, garlic scapes, almonds and nectarines in the salad instead of plain yogurt, chives and onions, pecans and apples.<\/p>\n

An adaptation was born. And it was good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am both a recipe cook and an a-little-of-this-a-little-of-that cook. What I don’t often do, however is deliberate adaptation. Sure, I substitute ingredients here and there, but never with a specific flavor and texture profile in mind. This, I think of more as substitution. Adaptations are intimidating. Adaptations can quickly point out just how much… Continue reading The Most Dangerous Game<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[120,119,43],"class_list":["post-806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cooking","tag-chicken","tag-nectarines","tag-salad","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p33KTw-d0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":221,"url":"https:\/\/sherlonya.net\/blog\/2009\/08\/week-off\/","url_meta":{"origin":806,"position":0},"title":"Week off","author":"admin","date":"August 30, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ironically, I cooked less on my week off from work that I normally do. 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