Wyszdom

You know how your pets walk around in circles in the kitchen when they’re about to be fed? You should see me waiting for a pizza to heat up. Same thing.

I’m a picky eater. Until a less than a year ago, I didn’t even eat rice, which as a coworker pointed out is “what they give kids when they don’t like anything else.” Now, I do eat rice. I randomly decided to go for it one time at Shabuway, and I liked it. After that, I started eating bacon fried rice at Google.

Since I had successfully eaten rice that had been prepared by others, it was time to see if I could incorporate it into meals that I make myself. I went to the store and found this in the rice section:

From Rice

As you can see, it comes with a teriyaki sauce, which comes in powder form mixed in with the rice.

From Rice

This is what it looks like before it’s cooked, mixed with some oil and water.

From Rice

The next step is to boil the mixture and let it simmer for seven minutes. After that, the instructions say you’re finished, but you’re left with this:

From Rice

As you can see, it only looks like a flavorful serving of rice. We can do better. Wysz can do better.

What I do at this point is open up my cabinet and refrigerator, and pull out anything that looks good. I think of this as “Joey logic,” based on the “It tastes like feet” segment on Friends.

From Rice

Teriyaki sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire Sauce, garlic powder, and BBQ sauce? This all looks good to me. Let’s add it to the rice.

From Rice

Now it’s looking much better. I think there’s just one more thing to add.

From Rice

Yes, bacon. Put it on:

From Rice

Stir it up:

From Rice

That’s how I make rice. Add egg to taste.

A new episode of my cooking show is out. You can now download it in HD or for your Apple TV. The Apple TV version isn’t HD, since for that I’d need to reduce the frame rate to 24 fps, but it’s still higher quality than SD. The podcast version remains iPhone-compatible.

Of course if you’re into instant gratification, YouTube is serving up some carrots as well:

Part 1


Part 2

Here’s a simple recipe you can use if you’re having guests over for a party. It’s so simple that the video of me making it is less than five minutes long! It took 20 minutes of edited footage for me to make spaghetti.

As a side note, I plan on mastering future episodes in HD. However, I plan on keeping the podcast to an iPhone-friendly size only, as I don’t want to deal with managing an HD simulcast. If anybody has suggestions on how I could handle the issue of producing a podcast for multiple devices, please leave your ideas in the comments.

I have a new podcast episode available for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to Beah for the spaghetti sauce recipe.

I wish I could push these things out faster, but I’m editing on a computer that’s six years old, and I’m lazy. Hopefully I’ll upgrade my equipment in the nearish future so compression doesn’t take forever and I can edit in HD.

Here’s part 1:

And part 2:

After over a year since the last episode, I’m pleased to announce that I’ve brought back my podcast! Formerly known as Absolute Wyszdom, I’ve renamed it “Wyszdom” and it’s now hosted right here on thewysz.com.

You can subscribe to the podcast with this URL: http://www.thewysz.com/podcast/wyszdom.xml
or by clicking here to subscribe in iTunes.

Let me know how you like it! Here’s my first new episode:



As you may have noticed at the end, this episode also launches a new section of my site, informally known as “Chicken and Ketchup.” It’s where I’ll share recipes. Check it out at thewysz.com/food. I had a lot of fun with this first shot at a cooking show, so look for more to come. Maybe I’ll try to do a couple more next weekend.