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I've been busy doing nothing with Chel all weekend. It was great fun, though now I'm eager to get out of this town just like she's done. Seeing the city from a different angle, the tourist angle, makes me feel like I don't belong here all over again. On Friday, we hiked our way up Arthur's Seat to get a view of the city from above, and it took me forever to figure out where I lived. How can I belong here if I can't even find my house? Add to that the fact that, in showing Chel around town, I took her to all the places I hadn't yet been, and I've started to wonder, what have I been doing here all this time? Certainly not getting to know the place. Certainly not making the city my own. Certainly not settling in.

Anyway, enough with the whiney mopeing. Time for the list making! In the months that I have been here, despite not having conquered the city, I have learned some things. Some culinary things! Food stuffs, if you will. Here are some interesting things I have discovered that you might like to try:

- beans on toast -- much like beans with toast, this dish is made by heating beans, then pouring then over toast and eating it all with a knife and fork. Bizarre, but delicious.

- sweetcorn -- I've no idea why it's got to be "sweet" corn (what other kind of corn is there?), but the general rule is, it goes in everything. Pizza, stir-fries, chili, salad. You name it, we can make it better with sweet corn.

- custard -- same rules apply here as with the sweet corn. Any desert you make can be improved by covering it with custard. Although, I suppose this does mean that every desert you make eventually tastes the exact same.

- courgette -- that's a zucchini. Yeah, it took me months to figure that out.

- chili -- unlike North American chili, this one is not in soup form. This kind of chili gets poured on top of pasta, or on rice, or all by itself. And you need to eat it with a fork. I've no idea why.

- curry -- everything is called curry. To be honest, where I said "stir-fry" up there, I really meant curry. Anything with a sauce and meat in a frying pan is called curry, even if there's very little curry involved. Even if there's none. It's all curry to me.

- tea -- all day, every day. Oh, baby, let's ride this caffeine high together.

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