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... I'm playing with brain chemistry again. I had a happy day yesterday, so I'm not going to knock it, and the new stuff is doing that drunk but not drunk thing that the 5HTP did when it was working and so I think that's a good thing...
But goddamn I'm tired. And vaguely depressed. It's weird and I can't figure out why.
Well okay, I can figure out why- last night I looked at the Angel/Demon porn I have hanging on my wall (failed print for a friend. I made another, gave her the good one, and kept the one with a couple of random dots because that printer is possessed) and it hit me with a "what the fuck was I thinking when I thought that was good enough? It looks like a child did it. Damn, she was being nice when she accepted it."
Yeah, it's back. So much yay. It doesn't help that the picture I'm working on coloring right now was inked by a monkey on caffeine but I'm stubborn and I want to color it because damnit, I want to practice skin tones more and it's porn again and I really need to draw more porn so I'm not stuck coloring something that makes me cringe every time I look at it. And I'm purely cringing over the linework. (And she's not balanced correctly at all...)
And at work I was just told that one of my jobs will be going away to the new person whenever we get one and I'm completely territorial over what I do that I don't want to give it up because they won't do it correctly. At least I realize I'm territorial and can try and force myself to let it go. Try. Although now I'm wondering if I'll be keeping any of the order receiving jobs.
New, I wanted something new. I can let everything go except for the database. I've worked on that thing for 7 years, I can't see it leave my hands. I'd die.
Anyway, moving on...
I have a Dreamwidth account from when LJ had its latest round of spazzing out and people were handing out invite codes like candy. I didn't want to just have a mirror on it (I dropped my Blurty mirror months ago), but I couldn't figure out what the heck I wanted to do with it. Still don't, but I'm toying with the idea of having it be a food blog thing. I'll still post the entries here as well, but it might be cool to have it all in one place that I can just point family members to. But I might be delusional as well. I'm never going to be a real food blogger, I hardly make up recipes myself, and my time span between making the food and posting pictures of it tends to be around three months. But it'd be something to use the account for. I'm debating.
Speaking of food, I'll wrap this long winded post up with my notes on the hash type thingie I made a couple of days ago. I loved corned beef hash, can't eat the beef, and without that it's just potatoes, so I tried to come up with a new version. And it was "clean out the fridge" time. Which is how the cabbage ended up in there.
1/2 cup uncooked lentils
2 small-medium potatoes
Cabbage, chopped
Onion, chopped
My idea was to make this a one skillet meal- don't do this. Make the lentils in a separate pot to be added after the potatoes cooked. Otherwise the lentils are overcooked and become tiny, hard chewy disks.
But what I did was cook the lentils in the skillet until the water was absorbed (2:1 ratio, water to lentils), adding garlic salt, pepper and basil so that the lentils were the flavored part. Finely chop the potatoes. I took my mandoline to thinly slice them first, didn't slice off my thumb this time, and then chopped them further with a knife. Add to the skillet with butter. Watch everything instantly glue itself to the pan. Add more butter. Chop the onion and cabbage to roughly the same size as the potatoes. Set aside. Unstick the damn pan again and add more butter.
After the potatoes seem rather cooked add the cabbage and onion, more goddamn butter, and cover so that maybe it'll stop sticking so bad and to steam the cabbage some. I added a little more pepper and garlic salt at the time because it seemed rather flavorless. Cook until the cabbage (and onions, but there was so much cabbage I couldn't find onions when I looked) is translucent. Serve.
I had it with a fried egg the first day and that was tasty. For lunch I had it with cheese and crackers.
But goddamn I'm tired. And vaguely depressed. It's weird and I can't figure out why.
Well okay, I can figure out why- last night I looked at the Angel/Demon porn I have hanging on my wall (failed print for a friend. I made another, gave her the good one, and kept the one with a couple of random dots because that printer is possessed) and it hit me with a "what the fuck was I thinking when I thought that was good enough? It looks like a child did it. Damn, she was being nice when she accepted it."
Yeah, it's back. So much yay. It doesn't help that the picture I'm working on coloring right now was inked by a monkey on caffeine but I'm stubborn and I want to color it because damnit, I want to practice skin tones more and it's porn again and I really need to draw more porn so I'm not stuck coloring something that makes me cringe every time I look at it. And I'm purely cringing over the linework. (And she's not balanced correctly at all...)
And at work I was just told that one of my jobs will be going away to the new person whenever we get one and I'm completely territorial over what I do that I don't want to give it up because they won't do it correctly. At least I realize I'm territorial and can try and force myself to let it go. Try. Although now I'm wondering if I'll be keeping any of the order receiving jobs.
New, I wanted something new. I can let everything go except for the database. I've worked on that thing for 7 years, I can't see it leave my hands. I'd die.
Anyway, moving on...
I have a Dreamwidth account from when LJ had its latest round of spazzing out and people were handing out invite codes like candy. I didn't want to just have a mirror on it (I dropped my Blurty mirror months ago), but I couldn't figure out what the heck I wanted to do with it. Still don't, but I'm toying with the idea of having it be a food blog thing. I'll still post the entries here as well, but it might be cool to have it all in one place that I can just point family members to. But I might be delusional as well. I'm never going to be a real food blogger, I hardly make up recipes myself, and my time span between making the food and posting pictures of it tends to be around three months. But it'd be something to use the account for. I'm debating.
Speaking of food, I'll wrap this long winded post up with my notes on the hash type thingie I made a couple of days ago. I loved corned beef hash, can't eat the beef, and without that it's just potatoes, so I tried to come up with a new version. And it was "clean out the fridge" time. Which is how the cabbage ended up in there.
1/2 cup uncooked lentils
2 small-medium potatoes
Cabbage, chopped
Onion, chopped
My idea was to make this a one skillet meal- don't do this. Make the lentils in a separate pot to be added after the potatoes cooked. Otherwise the lentils are overcooked and become tiny, hard chewy disks.
But what I did was cook the lentils in the skillet until the water was absorbed (2:1 ratio, water to lentils), adding garlic salt, pepper and basil so that the lentils were the flavored part. Finely chop the potatoes. I took my mandoline to thinly slice them first, didn't slice off my thumb this time, and then chopped them further with a knife. Add to the skillet with butter. Watch everything instantly glue itself to the pan. Add more butter. Chop the onion and cabbage to roughly the same size as the potatoes. Set aside. Unstick the damn pan again and add more butter.
After the potatoes seem rather cooked add the cabbage and onion, more goddamn butter, and cover so that maybe it'll stop sticking so bad and to steam the cabbage some. I added a little more pepper and garlic salt at the time because it seemed rather flavorless. Cook until the cabbage (and onions, but there was so much cabbage I couldn't find onions when I looked) is translucent. Serve.
I had it with a fried egg the first day and that was tasty. For lunch I had it with cheese and crackers.