My dinner tonight: quinoua with sauteed garlic, lipstick pepper, fresh ginger, shiitake mushrooms, pecans, and honey sesame baked tofu, with steamed asparagus, mango chili vinegar, lime, cilantro, and fresh mango stirred in at the end.

I left the eggs on the counter last night and just found them now (i.e. 14 hours later). It hasn't been above 68 degrees F. in that time, and it's mostly been in the lower sixties.

Internets: are they still safe to eat?

Haven't cooked a real meal for a while and knew I wouldn't get the chance for at least a few days. I was hankering for something homemade, so I hauled my lazy butt out to the produce market and the grocery store ( Read more... )

the_drifter: okay, yeah, time to get out of the lab
i just realized that my food consumption today has been
like
stupid, hippy excuses for real food
all things i like

shaenie: 2 powerbars, and MRE and a gallon of coffee?

the_drifter: but not all combining to make a normal amount of food
no, that's scientist excuses for food, lol

shaenie: lol

the_drifter: okay, let me see if i can name them ( Read more... )

One of my favorite things about cold weather is getting to make huge pots of mostly improvisational soups. Here's the one from last night, which is both delicious and requires no particular skill to make. All quantities and ingredients can be altered or omitted to taste (the only reason I remember how much of anything I put in is that I made it so ( Read more... )

The ironic thing is, I wasn't even the one cooking dinner. That was Jen. I was just the one who thought it was a good idea to split the frozen-together Trader Joe's salmon patties apart with one of the nice, sharp steak knives my parents bought me for Hanukkah last year ( Read more... )