Stuff made in my kitchen today ( Read more... )

So, you know, it being Cinco de Mayo and all, I decided to make guacamole. I have done this before... sort of. There were things I decided I needed to do to improve the next batch.

One was "add garlic." You guys, a head of garlic confounds me on a level that is completely unacceptable for someone over the age of nine. It just is ( Read more... )

And soon there will be awesome food in mah belleh ( Read more... )

Okay, I realize most of you had your cooking experimentation phase shortly after you moved out of 'mom and dad's house' and had to start cooking for yourself. By that measure, I'm only about 20 years behind the curve. So if you're reading this and going, "Geez, Waldo, you're JUST now figuring that out?" you may laugh at me or ignore me, but you ( Read more... )

Can I schedule a retake ( Read more... )

YES, I chopped up about sack and a half of various kinds of peppers tonight. The freezer was woefully lacking in small bits of spicy things and the farmers' market has finally started getting them in ( Read more... )

Okay, so we hear those occasional weird news items about people who find a perfect Rosary in a tomato or see the Virgin Mary in a potato chip, so they call the Pope or their priest or whoever...

What I want to know is this:  Who do I call when I find an alien in my frozen pizza?


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but I just had to look up how to boil an egg.  Like I said, it's not that I'm cooking-stupid, I'm just... well, yeah, I guess I'm cooking stupid.  And at 35 years old, I'm not 100% sure I've ever boiled an egg on my own.  I've done other cooking... I just haven't had a great need for hard boiled eggs ( Read more... )

1. Because it bears repeating again: Yay, renewed at work.  Which means tenure in June.  YAY! I say again.
2. I am exactly two weeks out of the "OMG! Hospital tiem nao!" scare.  Which means I have one less pill to take tonight.
3. Someone has put several big fake snowmen in the top level of a double decker bus in downtown Chicago.  I am so sad I forgot my ( Read more... )

Am now on killer ecxema cream. I've gone from .1% Elocon to 2.5% Hydrocortizone. The good news is, I've used it once and I no longer feel like I want to claw my right hand off.

Also, while I was waiting for the pharmacist to get my scripts together, I did some fruit shopping and made a berry salad. Good food! (And unlike some people on my f' ( Read more... )