Writing this left me hungry and pissed off at the same time

5-21-2006 - 3:28 p.m.

I've been cooking up a storm lately: pineapple upside down skillet cake, smoked chipotle pork tacos with avacado and queso fresco, organic banana walnut muffins, asparagus pasta salad.

What is it about semi-depression that makes me want to cook? I could stay in the house all weekend alternating between lying flat on the couch watching Tivoed episodes of Jacques Pepin's "Fast Food My Way" and flipping through my copy Rick Bayless' "Mexican Everyday" cookbook.

I've even stooped low enough to be cooking some of Rachel Ray's recipes. That fake-giggling, awkward-smiling, stupid-sounding, cutesy-loving, munchkin-looking, Rachel fucking Ray.

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