Friday, March 19, 2010

"Generalisation... Civilisation... Caramelisation..." -Morven

Whenever Morven cooked dinner during our time in Adelaide, he would start pretending to be a host of a US cooking show. He's dialog goes something like this, "Ooh boy... Look at the beautiful colour... Mmm.. Caramelisation... Generalisation... Education... Automation... Civilisation... Globalisation... (Long pause as he thinks of another -tion word)."

I'll never forget that. Not only because it was funny but because he set off the smoke alarm like 3 to 4 times? Argh.

I wanted to make caramelised onions some time back. I bought the onions and kept them close to 3 weeks. When I wanted to use them, I saw maggots crawling around in it! It was uber disgusting! I felt bad the onions were wasted because of my procrastination.
Just 2 days ago my mum bought onions.
I cried painfully! :'(


Morven! This is the reeaal deal!

I'll make sure he reads this. Haha! You have to cook it for a very long time before you see results. I used red onions. I'll try white ones another time and see if I can achieve a stronger brown colour.

The rice was mixed with the egg+parmesan cheese sauce used in the carbonara. Overall very happy! :D

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

i think your first line

'Whenever Morven was cooking dinner during our time in Adelaide, '

shouldnt it be

'Whenever Morven cooks dinner during our time in Adelaide, ?

hahahaha

Gerome said...

Those look really good!

And I think it should be:

'Whenever Morven cooked dinner during our time in Adelaide.."

Because it's a past event, past tense should be used.

"Whenever Morven was cooking dinner during our time in Adelaide" is also correct, because "was cooking" is in past progressive tense.

I just googled past progressive tense and coincidentally here's what I found:

http://www.athabascau.ca/courses/engl/155/support/verb_tenses.htm

aar.n said...

To Gerome: Argh, gotta edit it. Anonymous is Mark. Haha

Kath said...

Haha.. your food pictures are getting nicer! Well taken! Looks tempting. =)

aar.n said...

To Kath: Thanks! In order to get those shallow depth of field, I keep using macro mode. Yay! The post has achieved its goal! HAhaha

Charmaine said...

Aaron! I also want to learn how to cook caramelized onions! Me likeeeey