Trying to cook again: omelets: melting the pad of butter in the pan till it’s foamy, whisking the egg in a cereal bowl with chopsticks, adding almond milk, sometimes water from the tap, a perfect sheet on the pan, despite the incline from the stove, two slices of American cheese, lightly toasted hearty white bread.
Trying to get better at pour-over coffee, even though I don’t have one of those gooseneck spouts: pour the boiling water from the kettle to the carafe, and pour from the carafe over the funnel, gently, just barely tipped, making slow clockwise circles, between ten and fourteen revolutions — most of the time it’s “oversteeped” and tastes too bitter.
Three memoirs: Black Butler’s Molly (2023), Robert Gluck’s About Ed (2023), Bill Berkson’s Since When (2018).
Second Slope 