Alternate Blog Title:  A young man gets ready for old age and a life yelling at clouds.

Lately my girlfriend Lauren and I have been on a bit of a “health kick”, if you will.  And let me set the record straight at the beginning; this was NOT a New Years resolution.  It was a “week before Christmas” resolution.  

We’ve been making an effort to eat better, exercise more, and generally get ourselves into better shape.  It’s been working well for us so far, we’ve both lost some weight and have been feeling like we have more energy.    

But this is not a testimonial for living the good life.  You do whatever you want.  And leave me out of it.

Our quest to eat better has resulted in a lot of new cook books in the house (and considering the only recipes in the house before were the ones on the back of the cake box, we’ve progressed by leaps and bounds).  Going through one of those new cook books I came across a recipe for Chicken Coconut Curry.  I love curry.  When I’ve had curry in the past however, other people have made it.  So I thought I’d give it a try. 

And this brought forth my latest irritant:  The Scallion.

Apparently I have been lacking in my culinary pursuits in the past.  I had no idea what a Scallion was.  I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never seen or used one.  Which leads me to the list of why I’m irritated with The Scallion.

1) When I asked people what a Scallion was, the conversation went like this:

             “What? You’ve never heard of a Scallion?  It’s like an onion.  You idiot.”

2)  How can something be “like an onion?”   Onions have a very distinct taste and are a very distinct vegetable.  You either are an onion, or your not.

3)  If something tastes “like an onion”, why not just use an onion.  (This is the old “if it tastes like chicken, why not just eat chicken” argument)

4) Apparently Scallion’s aren’t that popular, because I couldn’t find them in any of the grocery stores I went to.  And yes, I didn’t know what I was looking for, but none of the helpful little signs at the grocery store said Scallion.  So I’m assuming there were none.

And I could go on.  But I don’t want to because I don’t think this Scallion problem deserves more attention.  Just to point out however, my Chicken Coconut Curry tasted just fine with green onions instead of Scallions.  I’d say better in fact, but then of course I have no idea what a Scallion would have added to the dish.  I’m assuming my anger towards them would have tainted the food anyway.

And finally, I can’t resist: Those damn Rap Scallions!