Hippy Hash and Hipster Trash

So for the past week or so, I've been experimenting with hippy hash. I've been working on making restaurant quality hash, but so far it hasn't worked. I obviously realize that the greatest dishes are never made perfectly the first time around, so I'm not letting it upset me.

So for my experiment w/ Hash, this is what I was going to have in it: 4 potatoes (shredded), 2 Onions (chopped), Assorted sweet peppers (chopped), and Chicken (pan cooked), and then topped w/ a cheese (either Feta or Cheddar, either is delicious with it. Eggs can be added to this, and it's pretty good. I enjoy eggs over easy w/ this dish, cause you can then break the yoke and it seeps into all the corners of the plate and gets every thing nice and tasty. All of this feeds about 2 people

My first attempt, the shredded potatoes turned out grey. I'm really not sure how that happened, although I think it may have been a combination of leaving the skins on and not drying out the stacks of shredded potatoes before cooking. It still tasted alright w/ all the other ingredients, it was just a matter of getting over the off putting coloring they had.

My second attempt was a bit better, and here, I skinned the potatoes fires but they began to burn a lot quicker. not sure why, still tasted and looked better then the first batch

(Mind you, these first two attempts were created in the kitchen in my Ann Arbor residence)

My third attempt was made back home in Baroda. I didn't have any chicken that time, so it was just going to be potatoes onions and cheddar cheese, just a quick simple variant on the hash. Except this time, half of my potatoes burnt to the bottom of the pan, and were unusable. So I gave the surviving potato mixture to Kayla. However all the onions survived so there was a very disproportionate onion:potato ratio. The second batch I made, I just diced the potatoes as opposed to shredding them, and cooked them as normal. This time they didn't burn. I just cut them a bit too thick so they weren't super crispy the whole way through :(

All well, it was really tasty.

I'm back in Ann Arbor now. We were going to have legit, official rehearsals today. But apparently the only members of the crew who could make it were me and Chrishelle. So I'm still having Jenny and Zack (our actors) come over to go over the story and lines. It shouldn't be a problem.

No, the only problem I have is this Paul guy. He only chimes in when he complains about our ideas, and never offers a plausible solution in time. Like take this past week for example:

Chrishelle was unable to book the auditorium (not her fault it seems it was a problem on their end) so we had to revert from our new idea (where we make a mockumentary about the rehearsal process for a short student film) to our original idea (where it's shot outside and is about a boy and a girl who get into an argument). And I offered to write the screenplays to both of these ideas, because Paul hadn't delivered us a legit screenplay for his idea when I asked him for it by this past Friday. So I wrote it, and sent it off to them this morning. And guess what? We finally hear back from Paul, and all he says is "Alex, what is this? I told you I don't feel comfortable shooting this lame ass idea. Have the actors look over both your idea and my idea and tell them to pick which one they want." and I'm pissed now, cause this god damned fucker can't even bother to show up to class on time, so who does he think he is saying "he's not comfortable" with this idea? He's a bloody cameraman, I'm not coming to him for creative points or any bullshit like that. I swear...

I'm on my last nerve with this guy. Because as I hinted in a few earlier posts, this isn't his first time being a tool. For example: He was a week late presenting a treatment to our group. And then he presented another idea to us that he wanted to do. So I figured I'd throw him a bone, and I told him "Have a screenplay to us by the Friday before break, and we'll go with your idea" That Wednesday all he does is send a slightly more in-depth treatment to the group, trying to pass it off as a "screenplay" so we told him to fix it and we'll do it. Never heard anything back from him about it. On Friday we had auditions for actors from the drama department, however no one showed up, except Rick, Chrishelle and myself. So the three of us figured out a new idea (the above mentioned "mockumentary" idea) and I started on the screenplay for that. So Chrishelle sends an email out to our whole group, telling them the new plan and Paul's only response is "well I won't be available at all this week". And now his lil upset over being "uncomfortable"

Fucking hipster trash