This past year was a good one, but the better it got for me, the deeper into debt I fell. Being on tour supports itself, but when you’re on tour a lot, it makes it hard to hold down any kind of day job off-tour. So as the holidays roll around, I’m hurting for Christmas funds. I wanted to give my people something with substance, something good and solid that would tell them, “Yes, I still love you, even though we never see each other anymore. I love you so much I’m giving you this great, personal, heartfelt thing that’ll make up for all these months of me being distant, grumpy—or just gone.” I wanted to say all that in a present, to really knock the ball out of the park and prove that I’m not such a bad friend after all.

So I’m making a cookbook zine. I’ve been writing all my recipes down with notes and stupid little anecdotes and inessential instructions (“Bring water to a rolling boil. Do a shot of tequila. Toss broccoli in the pot. Do a shot of tequila” etc) I made up this great recipe for homemade corn chips with fresh grapefruit instead of salsa. There’s my modified Honey Slides recipe and my black bean cilantro tofu soup (which’ll turn you into the Incredible Hulk). There’s butternut squash/zucchini soup—and that’s where it ends. I am, at the moment, stuck.

So I’m forced to get experimental. I’m thinking I’ll have one “stolen” recipe I find in a real cookbook and just photo copy it in, do the layout as a parody of Found Magazine. Probably do some drink recipes, because I’m a pro at that. Also, if anybody out there has a recipe you want to contribute, email me through my myspace.

Filed under: experiment

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