Thursday, 4 Dec 2008

I said this on flickr just a little while ago, but it seems like this year I've been seeing a lot of recipes to help people out of the 'turkey sandwich rut' after Thanksgiving (I'm sure it happens every year). I guess maybe a genuine cooked turkey yields a lot of leftovers and maybe some people hate the idea of eating the same thing more than once a year, but I sort of feel like. . . really? Do you really eat so many turkey sandwiches at other times that you can't bear to eat a few in the week after Thanksgiving? Are you too good for a turkey sandwich?

Personally, I can never be bothered to buy and cook a Quorn roast more than once a year, so I'm happy to eat all the fake turkey sandwiches it can give me. I buy fake turkey deli slices from time to time, but it's not the same thing, really. When I taste the combination of 'turkey', mayo, avocado, and all the other fixings, I think, 'Ooh, I want to eat this again tomorrow!' (except substitute 'tomorrow' with 'in ten minutes') not 'Yeah, I guess I'll have another a year from now.'

But I have a high threshold for repetition. I'm probably a little too dependent on it, to be honest. If I happen to discover that starting my day with a bowl of oatmeal, then going to the gym, then settling in at the coffee shop to proofread makes for a good day, then I'm apt to want to do that every day until it becomes boring and I'm forced to change it up.

So everybody else can keep their piles of creative recipes for leftovers. I'm just going to have yet another sweet potato and listen to the same album for the millionth time.