shit!
not literally, but shit, how embarrassing... going to a bbq tonight, so i said i'd make some salads. the friends who'd come here first to travel together were annoying my pasta/potato/rice boiling (i use the term "salad" very loosely. shameless carbs with vegetables and different flavoured cheeses and mayonnaises would be much more apt) system, so i packed them off to the pub and put the radio on.

oooh, portishead, not heard that for years. turn it up. sing along. aha, handy cucumber, makes a perfect microphone. sing along. bit louder, noone's home, turn it up again. sing along.

sway slowly whilst chopping, then turn around with a flourish - only to find two of the girls had come back for something. to see me. covered in mayonnaise and feta cheese, warbling to a cucumber that it had to "give me a reeeeeasoon to beeeee a woman....."

now they won't stop laughing at me. i think they may be hinting i was planning to do something unsavoury with it, other than chop it up and put it in the salad. how gross.

obviously that was what the courgette was for!

but seriously, everyone sings when they cook, don't they??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 16:12, 6 replies, latest was 17 years ago)

It should be in the cookbooks
That singing is an integral part of cooking, and playing the drums is de rigeur with any cooking implement to hand. The mad fools- do they not understand?
( Duke Of Belmsford has got 99 records, but Jay-Z ain't one, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 16:29, Reply)

I sing* when I cook
*screech painfully

The music must correspond with the nationality of the dish I'm cooking. I do alot of Greek food and I swear having Greek music on whilst I simultaneously *sing* and dance makes it taste all the more authentic. I'm stuck when it comes to Indian food though - the closest music we have there is the sound track from "Last of the Mohicans".
( Tourette's ( . )( . ) has a monkey hair in her fried egg, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 17:27, Reply)

Your salads
Sound like just as much fun to make as they do to eat!
( thealternativefact, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 18:11, Reply)

Nope, I never sing when I cook.
I do like to dance though. Even better if there's someone there with you because then you can do the Viennese Waltz.
( girlinthehole, Sat 12 Jul 2008, 19:08, Reply)

I do.
One November evening I was slicing up chicken breasts for dinner with the kids and for some reason the song "Blue Christmas" came up in conversation. Being me, I decided to start singing it in my most exaggerated Elvis voice, which irritated my middle son to no end. So I danced into the living room, crooning into a chunk of raw chicken.

All three of them blue-screened.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 13 Jul 2008, 13:25, Reply)

when I cook I tend to have the radio switched to Planet Rock
so most of my dishes are accompanied by things like AC/DC, The Doors or Deep Purple with vocals by Vipros
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Sun 13 Jul 2008, 18:38, Reply)