Name: Sirion Skulpone
Occupation: Research Analyst
Borough: Manhattan
What did you eat today?
Breakfast: cottage cheese and a pear & a
cup of Tetley's English breakfast tea; Snack: Dannon Light n Fit
smoothie in peach passion fruit and a banana; Lunch: Boca cheeseburger
on multi-grain english muffin with spinach and tomato; Snack: Laughing
Cow light cheese on Kavli 7 grain crackers and an apple; Dinner: Baked
chicken breast with onion and baby creamer potatoes in broth, garlic,
and lemon juice & white rice; Dessert: leftovers from my
boyfriend's birthday cake (yellow cake with vanilla buttercream
frosting).
What do you never eat?
Tripe. Even thinking about it makes me break out in hives.
Complete this sentence: In my refrigerator, you can always find:
Land O Lakes nonfat half and half, Dannon Light and Fit Smoothies [What the hell is nonfat half and half made of? You are a much more trusting eater than I. --Ed.]
What is your favorite kitchen item?
My mortar and pestle which I use to
mash up garlic for my mom's garlic shrimp recipe and pretty much
everything else I know how to cook.
Where do you eat out most frequently? Saigon Grill
World ends tomorrow. What would you like for your last meal?
Comfort food, which to me is my mom's home cooking.
Tom kha gai
(chicken coconut galangal soup)
Kanom Jeeb (dumplings)
garlic shrimp
Rex sole with celery in salty bean sauce
garlic pepper pork
thai
basil pork
cabbage soup with pork
khao-tom (rice porridge) with
bacon
mussamun curry with beef
white rice
for dessert, Viennetta or Ben and Jerry's Heath Bar toffee crunch
It's a big meal but I think I could do it!
Sirion is my one blood relation in New York City. Of all the kids in the clan, she is the "Successful One", allowing a liberal arts jerk-off like me the freedom to be the "Slacker One" -- for that I am forever grateful. Don't mess with her or all 182 of her globally positioned first cousins (yours truly included) will rain down on you like a muay thai monsoon.
yay! i'm so excited to be featured! too bad my diet is a little bit boring, but oh well. thanks for your editor's notes! I am not sure what's in the nonfat half and half, just like i'm not sure what is in splenda (i guess i am trusting, but hey, i'm the one who got the optional laser eye surgery!). btw, it is my ability to live vicariously through your artistic adventures that allows me to work my up the corporate ladder of boring desk jobs. and anyway, i would say touring the world and starring in your own show qualifies as pretty successful!
we should try and make kanom jeeb sometime. i bet i have a recipe for it somewhere. does your mom have a recipe? i bet it's not too hard to make.