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My Culinary Crusade

I've been hearing the adage "People who love to eat also love to cook" since I was a young child, but the idea of eating has always thrilled me more than cooking. I will not be taking the blame for that as I have very good cooks in my family.  I learnt how to make lemonade when I was six, a normal vegetable salad with lemon and salt when I was ten and tea and coffee followed at age eleven. Around the time I was twelve, I became a little more adventurous and learnt how to make an omelet, scrambled eggs if I couldn't roll the omelet properly and mildly fried eggs. As you can tell, I had a good start but I've always been a little lazy so I didn't explore further for a couple of years after that until very recently, as I'm home and I've got nothing better to do.  Welcome to my food journal :)  Albeit a little long, if not for the words, you should go ahead for the food pictures! I normally use a different app to do my collages, but that app crashed so here...

The Number Seven, Destiny and Conspiracy Theories

I'm going to admit it, this is probably one of the strangest things I will be writing about, but staying at home and utilizing my time following the course book of professional procrastination has slowly, but surely led my mind wander off to various topics, and this is just one of them. Starting in an order I think is chronological (it probably isn't), the number seven is extremely prevalent in nature, without us even realizing it. The seven continents, the seven oceans, the seven colours in a rainbow, the seven wonders of the ancient world, the seven cardinal sins, the seven days of the week, the seven holes in a person's head and the seven vertebrae in the neck are just some of the many natural occurrences with an obvious association to the number. "Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Sloth, Envy, Pride & Wrath" (not pictured in order) However, these facts were not something that really caught my attention. In the article that I was referring to in order...