dinner tonight: fruit, steamed green beans, salad
Dinner tonight: apple, orange, tangerine (sitting in the fridge too long, hafta use it), kiwi, lettuce salad w/ almonds, a cherry tomato (left those too long too), and Caesar (with canola oil, oops?), grated cheese. Steamed green beans with my laughable attempt at sauteed garlic, green onion, and almonds, and shredded cheese. Also also, Keith Shoemaker, I'm finally drinking that Oberon. XD
(Sautee almonds? I figured, "why not?")
Lessons learned: use a nut chopper to chop almonds, rather than spilling half of them on the floor (though as a man I have issue with owning anything called a "nut chopper"). Sauteeing is /fast/, steam the green beans first. Also cut them up more. Three minutes is not /quite/ enough for steaming that many beans, and one minute is quite too long for sauteeing that little. Get some more theory in you. Get some spices in your cupboards. And/or learn about the ones already there. Also: that's a lot of food. Though, being sick last week, I didn't really eat that much. We'll call this make up. >_>;
Successes: knifing the ends off of three beans at a time, rather than breaking them off; more efficient bean-usage /and/ faster. Prep time in general and just general practice in kitchen. Clean up is also like 95% done already thanks to early pan-washing.
Wish list: better cheese. Kraft shedded Mexican, miraculously un-moldy despite "use by" date of 4/2010? If it could have been helped, no thank you.
Verdict: nom nom nom
(Sautee almonds? I figured, "why not?")
Lessons learned: use a nut chopper to chop almonds, rather than spilling half of them on the floor (though as a man I have issue with owning anything called a "nut chopper"). Sauteeing is /fast/, steam the green beans first. Also cut them up more. Three minutes is not /quite/ enough for steaming that many beans, and one minute is quite too long for sauteeing that little. Get some more theory in you. Get some spices in your cupboards. And/or learn about the ones already there. Also: that's a lot of food. Though, being sick last week, I didn't really eat that much. We'll call this make up. >_>;
Successes: knifing the ends off of three beans at a time, rather than breaking them off; more efficient bean-usage /and/ faster. Prep time in general and just general practice in kitchen. Clean up is also like 95% done already thanks to early pan-washing.
Wish list: better cheese. Kraft shedded Mexican, miraculously un-moldy despite "use by" date of 4/2010? If it could have been helped, no thank you.
Verdict: nom nom nom