I've got a really annoying moving-related road trip to make today. Since I have zero cash, I have (without intending to) managed to pack myself the same bag lunch I had in grade 2 (minus the semi-frozen Super Socco drink box): Peanut butter and Jam sandwich and a banana. In the process I have rediscovered some
[technical tweaks to my peanut butter and jam sandwich construction methods.]technical tweaks to my peanut butter ( Read more... )

( How to thaw a turkey on the internet. )

Today I made greek salad, but it exploded.

[Details]Did the usual, chopped up some cucumbers, green peppers, tomatoes, and no onions (because I never can tell how strong an onion is going to be when eaten raw until I'm chewing it and it's melting my head from EXTREME ONION MUSK, and every Greek salad I've ever bought has had onions made of pure misery, and ( Read more... )

Discovered today:

[Fire. Almost.]-The chicken balls from the local grocery store deli Chinese food counter (aka the second best place in town for Chinese food) can be had for 50% off in the cold section of the deli and reheated at home, but they are really oily ( Read more... )

Do not attempt to deep fry chicken and potatoes in a shallow open dish in an oven ( Read more... )

Dinner tonight: Coleslaw and a chunk of dry baguette.

(In my defense, dinner was at about 10 pm when I finally got home from work.)

This soup fixes everything. I might have posted a recipe for this before, but even if I have it bears repeating.

( Potato Bacon Soup )

I have this uncanny ability to include explosions in any cooking-related activity. Today, corn-on-the-cob. While it was rawSee, I peeled the damn things, remembering afterward why it was always only ever done outside when I was growing up; bits of husk and silk everywhere. Then I tried fitting a cob in the pot, and it was too big. "No problem," I ( Read more... )

I made Shepherd's Pie (sort of)!!! And nothing exploded (much)!!!!!

(It's even edible after I chiseled through the top! Woo hoo!)

In honour of A) feeling lucid and energetic enough to actually cook something while getting over this bout of pneumonia and B) not managing to burn or blow up anything in the process, I present an improvised soup recipe that turned out rather well.

( Tomato veggie rice soup. )