Hot & Rice

I've said already how I hit on simple meals that I like and then stick with them. As I have for quite some time, I am mainly eating a crude concoction of rice and tomato sauce. There was a change for a while there, though. I had been livening it up with hot sauce. I really like that stuff. Unfortunately, I had to give that up, or at least I did do that. It perhaps was not a necessary loss, but it happened, as things do whether in response to need or not.

The thing was that I could only find the sauce at a particular place. It's a relatively obscure sauce which has no peer I know of. I moved away from the one place I've found it, and it became inconvenient to go there and get it. I could have done it with no greater investment of time than an hour, but I've given up things I like more over less. For some time, I managed to enjoy the rice without it, but lately it had grown a little bland.

That this happened only after nearly a year is a real testament to my easy contentment. Finally I had all I could take of this privation, and I got on the bus to the place. I went right to where it had been, and there still it was. The cost of less than two dollars was no more onerous a burden than it ever had been, and I snapped it up. A friend I bumped into in the parking lot was most amused by my tale of why I was there, and I guess I can see it that way.

The taste of the sauce is welcome in my rice, though I must admit there is another factor at work. I generally stick with white rice (as they say white is stuck on rice), as the expense is ever so slightly less. It's not so much less as the nutrition is, however. Finally I went and got some of the brown rice, and I do enjoy the flavor of that as well, to say nothing of the texture. Perhaps I will stick with the both of these recent changes for a while. For me, that might be years.