When I am getting a cold (and I may have written about this in earlier posts, but I can't remember, so if I have, oh well) I NEED miso soup. It's like, the mother of all compulsions. I get it into my head that miso soup is the only thing that will make me feel better, and if I don't have it, I will get sicker than I might have. I don't even really like miso soup. It's okay, but I just find the seaweed floating around in it icky. I hate seaweed, and I don't understand why you'd want to eat it. But nevermind the seaweed. I am, as you all know, currently incubating a cold, and so the first thing I thought, when I realized what was going on, was: "Well, that's that. I'm having Japanese for dinner." This thought occured as early as eight this morning, even as I pretended to myself that I didn't want to eat Japanese food, no way, no how.
It was a fruitless exercise in self-delusion, because around three, I think I just gave in and told S that I wanted Japanese for dinner, and would he please go pick it up for me. Because the other thing about miso soup is that I have to eat vegetable tempura with it. I can't eat one without the other. And it is the nature of tempura to be fattening. Which might explain part of the internal battle to resist the Japanese. Obviously, I wasn't successful, and obviously, my diet is down the tubes. I am unable to eat well when I don't feel good. I want to wallow in cookies and easy food. And vegetable tempura and miso soup.
Incidentally, it was very, very delicious, even though it definitely included eggplant tempura. I didn't eat those pieces, but you never can tell what will happen. It's possible that not only will I be going to the dentist with a snuffley head cold but also with a body full of hives. I think at that point, and if there are cavities (oh sweet god of teeth, I hope not. I've never had one and I'm terrified of getting a filling, mostly because of the novocaine), I may bow out of work tomorrow. Hives, cold, cavities = much unhappiness.
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