  When I was younger, my appetite for food was near legendary. Strangers, somehow connected to me in some bizarre parody of that Kevin Bacon game, knew about my innate ability to eat anything and everything set before me.
Lucky for me, I also enjoyed running around for no particular reason, thus saving me from the horrible fate reserved for urlLink Jerry O'Connell , forever known as the fat kid from urlLink Stand By Me . All kidding aside, I've developed a fondness for trying my hand at cooking those things I enjoyed eating the most while adding my own flavor to the recipes to enhance the flavors I choose above others.
That usually means spicy. Being half urlLink Korean , I was introduced to the power of red peppers at an early age and the constant bombardment on my tongue has caused an escalation of the spice quotient on the food, not unlike the arms race during the cold war. Fortunately, my inability to fully enjoy mildly spicy food won't destroy the world. Tonight, I cooked up a big ol' batch of urlLink Jambalaya .
I like to cook the brown variety since I don't particularly like the tomato taste. But instead of following the traditional recipe, I give it a little flavor from far east. Add in some enoki mushrooms for the texture, some soy sauce instead of salt, Thai chili peppers to crank up the spicy a bit. And I added some okra to give a little different texture to the whole thing. Cranked it out and brought it to my friend's for some Settlers of Catan and Jambalaya.
If they ate it, they liked it. I might have to save this one and use it at a bigger event. One day, I hope to have a big ol' collection of remixed recipes and publish a urlLink cookbook . And very painful is sneezing while peeing. Just hold the sneeze if you can. You'll thank me later. 
