I love Naked and Afraid. I like to watch really junky trashy TV on my laptop when I eat my lonely but well prepared evening repasts. It is my one time a day that I pay much attention to myself. So I eat good and am entertained.
I like to cook, and I just look at what I have in my fridge and pantry, and something always pops into my head. Cooking is not rocket science, and if you just buy interesting stuff, there is always a way to put something interesting together. I never use recipes, so I can’t recreate the same thing twice. I throw stuff together, and yum yum, eat it.
Well, except for my Sam’s Famous and Totally Uniquely Delicious Baked Salmon. I usually make that the same, because it is so damned delicious, I just can’t think of a better way to make Salmon. Ok, since you asked…
Get a couple Salmon strips like they sell at the HEB here. They are like 2″ wide, skin on one side. Put a piece of foil in a small baking tray, or sometimes I just tear off some foil, and bend up the edges about 3/4″ and fold the corners. Put the salmon, skin side down, on the foil with some space between the pieces.
Heat up the oven or your toaster oven to 400 degrees.
Meanwhile back at the salmon, sprinkle the pieces liberally with powdered garlic. Liberally. You can never have too much garlic. If a recipe calls for one clove of garlic, it must be a recipe to cook one clove of garlic, because why would you ever use just one clove of garlic? And even then, add three cloves. So now that the salmon has a nice splash of garlic, drizzle chinese orange sauce all over the pieces. La Choy, or whatever, in the chinese sauces section of the store. Or if you live in Maine,where they don’t eat that fancy stuff, you can order it on Amazon. Now get out your bag of dried crushed peppermint leaves (Amazon sells it) and grind them between your fingers while making a nice green covering on the surface of the salmon pieces.
Pop em in the oven, 20 minutes, and close all your windows so that your neighbors don’t hear you scream with delight. If you use a pancake spatula, you can slide it right in between the skin and the meat, and move it to the plate. You are welcome.
But that is not the story I wanted to tell here. Junk TV makes salmon taste even better. So I watch Naked and Afraid, or Survivor, or Love Island UK. Total garbage. I just love it for supper. I always end up thinking, Thank the Sweet Lord Jesus that my mama didn’t raise such a fool.
Even so, looking at these shows as social experiments, they tell you a lot about the human condition. I often deliberate on the human condition over dinner. What could go better with a nice hot dinner, than deliberation over my fellow humans? We are a complex tribe.
That said, I found myself coming to a surprising revelation about the human condition tonight while watching a guy get voted off of Survivor, and eating a smoked turkey samwich for dinner, with some beans, and dessert was a Sam’s Amazing Giant Chocolate Muffin, with fresh blueberries, Banana, and Mandarin Tangerines chopped up in little pieces, and coconut and chocolate chips. And colored sprinkles on top. Hey, I was in a mood yesterday. Deeeeeeelicious.
And the revelation? People with stupid looking hair, never do well, or last long on the shows. Deep huh? I have a college degree.
If you didn’t laugh, check your pulse, you might be dead 
Love ya Larny .
