Cooking thoughts
- it's really awkward when your hands are covered in dough and you need to be doing anything that involves them not being covered in dough. I blame my tendencies to make pasta dishes and crustless quiches where I'm always working on 3-4 pots/pans of ingredients at once. It turns out that when you are making something with a crust (to the extent that making a crust out of Bisquick - savior of all lazy crust makers everywhere - counts as making a crust) you need to finish the crust part first or last and not be doing several other things at the same time.
- I have a racial bonus to sauces apparently. To the extent that I found myself googling other styles of sauces today to add to my repertoire. I'm really good at making up ones if I know the bases to them, so I'm enjoying looking up more bases.
- I also have the same bonus towards potatoes. I've been doing inappropriate dishes with them that have actually turned out okay because of the bonus. It turns out that shredding potatoes hash brown style for potato soup doesn't work very well, but does work if you apply enough boiling, time, spices, and cheese.
- Cheese fixes everything. Even lack of cheese.
- It's probably a bad thing when I can say "Do you want the cheese sauce I just made, the shredded regular cheddar, the horseradish whole milk cheddar, smoked Gouda, Swiss, or American on your eggs?" because they're all just on hand.
- I have a racial bonus to sauces apparently. To the extent that I found myself googling other styles of sauces today to add to my repertoire. I'm really good at making up ones if I know the bases to them, so I'm enjoying looking up more bases.
- I also have the same bonus towards potatoes. I've been doing inappropriate dishes with them that have actually turned out okay because of the bonus. It turns out that shredding potatoes hash brown style for potato soup doesn't work very well, but does work if you apply enough boiling, time, spices, and cheese.
- Cheese fixes everything. Even lack of cheese.
- It's probably a bad thing when I can say "Do you want the cheese sauce I just made, the shredded regular cheddar, the horseradish whole milk cheddar, smoked Gouda, Swiss, or American on your eggs?" because they're all just on hand.