tomato meatballs
the beautiful and talented alisa makes a dish we call tomato meatballs served over rice. request it if you are ever lucky enough to sample her cuisine. stab the meatballs and pop them in your mouth. then shovel the rice into your facial orifice. then carefully cut your tomato hunks into bits and separate them as far apart as possible. then set down your fork and regale us with interesting dinner stories for about half an hour. that's how long it takes the tomatoes to cool. they come out of the oven as little balls of nuclear fire. if you eat them first you will experience the kind of internal combustion usually reserved for nitrous burning drag racer engines. why are the tomatoes globs of solidified fire when an adjacent meatball is cool enough to finger? composition. it's one of those things that's verifiably true. no matter how puzzling it seems.