2023-11-27
29 分钟Ted audio collective.
Hey, everyone.
How to be a better human is still on our season break, but we wanted to share a special episode from the archive today.
We'll be back with all new episodes and a whole new season for you in January 2024.
Until then, enjoy.
You're listening to how to be a better human.
I'm your host, Chris Duffy.
I love to cook.
I love to make a meal and have friends and family over and sit around a table eating and talking and having a great time.
That's one of my favorites, favorite things in the world.
But when I first started cooking, there was this period of several years where, as I was learning, I never used the inside of an oven, only the stovetop in the microwave, because turning on the big box full of gas, that felt way too scary and certainly too advanced for a beginner like me.
I was afraid I was gonna make.
My whole house blow up.
At the same time as I was learning to cook, I was learning alongside my roommate Dave, one of my best friends.
And one time, Dave got his mom's recipe for this traditional persian chicken and walnut and pomegranate stew called festingen.
And one of the steps was to process or grind the walnuts into really tiny pieces.
But in the recipe Dave's mom had added correctly, I don't think either of you have a food processor.
So if you don't have a way to grind the walnuts up, you can always just put them in a ziploc bag and then hit it with a boot or roll a wine bottle over it.
And now, I first of all, think this is an incredible step in a recipe, put it in a bag and smash it with a boot.
Um, but she was also completely correct.