Peas Please
>> Tuesday, January 13, 2009
1. pea salad
2. odd potatoes
3. nearly raw meat
4. lemon bars
It's amazing how easily one can overlook oddly prepared potatoes and nearly raw meat when there's lemon bars involved! More on that to come ...
One is the loneliest ....
>> Sunday, January 11, 2009
Picture the scene. Me, at my desk, Google reader open, eating lunch.
1. one ham and cheese sandwich
2. one pickled cherry pepper
3. one pathetic little candy bar
It's too depressing, I can't go on. Talking about it I mean. Don't worry Mom. This isn't like my Post Secret or anything.
Poached Salmon & Potato Salad
>> Wednesday, January 7, 2009
1. salmon
2. potatoes
3. cute accessory
4. random pieces of romaine lettuce
5. blackberries and Greek style yogurt with honey
I poached the fish using a recipe from Simply Recipes subbing chives for the dill, cause that's what I had. Too bad I didn't catch the part about covering the pan - ended up spoon-sloshing the liquid on top to get it to cook :)
The potatoes are just quartered and boiled with some butter and chives. I put a little Caesar dressing in the chick.
Have I mentioned my new found love for the Fresh & Easy? Let me mention it again. See that salmon up there? Know where I got it? I'll tell you - Fresh & Easy. Ten ounces for $3.99 and as fresh as I'm ever likely to taste living here in the desert. Cooking and eating fish just isn't something I grew up doing. Where I'm from there's only one kind of fish, and that's catfish and you eat it dredged in cornmeal and deep fried and if you're smart you go out for it so you don't mess up your kitchen. And that - while delicious - is nothing like this. I don't know where I was going with that.
Anyway, Boo loves fish so I try to fix it for her at least once a week. Unfortunately she slept through dinner so the Boy snagged half of her fillet and the rest ended up here. This is just the sort of lunch that I love packing for work. So much better than anything I'd have time to run out for plus the added benefit of being very nearly free!
Pumking Soup - Did I Already Say That?
>> Tuesday, January 6, 2009
1. more delicous pumpkin soup
2. berries, apples and honey'd yogurt
I'm sure gonna miss that soup. Anyone have a good recipe for spicy pumpkin soup?
Pumpking Soup
>> Monday, January 5, 2009
Last night marked the, well, the last night of eating out for a good long while. I don't know about you guys, but I'm stuffed. Three straight weeks of non-stop retarded asshole eating will do that do a person I guess. Kids are home. Bought groceries. Nose to the grindstone and all that. Anyway, the last meal out was a killer. Or a king. As in pump-king soup.
Okay, pumpkin soup. With coconut, and curry. My oh my. I had a bowl of it for dinner and when I asked for a cup to go, you know, for lunch the next day, the server looked at me funny and asked if it was good. Apparently it didn't sell very well and he packed up a quart for me to take home. Blessed day.
You'll probably be seeing this tomorrow as well. Lucky you! Oh, the stuff behind it? A piece of his leftover meatloaf and a red potato. I burped and worse that stupid meatloaf all day long. Sorry. I'm all about the over-sharing.
Toasting the New Year
>> Saturday, January 3, 2009
People. There are no words. That up there? That's my new toaster. A 1940 Toastmaster. Seriously. It weighs enough to kill a man if thrown with sufficient force AND makes a kick-ass slice of toast. Win-win, right? Of course the heat coming off the top is enough to melt the underside of my upper cabinets but that's what it takes to get toast that's toasty on the outside and soft in the middle. Trust me, any so-called "fire risk" is totally worth it.
In case you were wondering I did run a complicated little algorithm to determine exactly what the mathematical chances were of me and my new love ever actually meeting. The variables included; Me, Him, holiday weekend, two bucks and Mormon thrift store. Statistically I am more likely to be Elvis' than to own that particular toaster. Obviously Jesus wanted me to have it.
My second Resolution?
Buy more crap at thrift stores.
Happy 2009
oh. I forgot the words. Like it matters. Anyway - cookies for YOU Julie! Sure I might have missed Snackfest '09 (think it's a bit premature to be making declarations like that? I mean there's a whole lot of year left with surely much potential for equaling if not surpassing the excellence that was the aforementioned Snackfest? And then what? SnackSlapdown? I guess that could work) but I was there in spirit. And I was carrying cookies. Shortbread cookies, with chocolate! And you would have loved them. I'm sure of it.
Shortbread Cookies - makes 48 if you use your little scooper
1 cup unsalted butter
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt (or not if you use salted butter)
2 cups flour
Cream the butter, sugar and salt together in a bowl, then mix in 2 cups of flour about 1/4 a cup at a time. It'll eventually make a big lump of stiff dough that will walk a Kitchen-aid right off the counter if you aren't careful. Anyway. I digress. Again. Roll out the dough and cut it however you want. Apparently when I was a child I called rolling pins ro-doughlers. Apparently it was cute.
I roll dough on a flexible cutting mat - no flour needed. Or you can scoop it into balls and squash them with the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Or you know, a glass. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven until as brown as you like 'em. Probably somewhere between 10 and 15 minutes. It really depends on how thin you rolled or smashed the dough.
I had lots of extra chocolate around so I made dents in the centers of these with my thumb and put a little chunk of dark chocolate love on each and every one. Then I stuck the whole pan back in the oven to get melty.
Maybe someday I'll explain how I came to possess extraneous amounts of dark chocolate, but for now I'll end with the first of this year's Resolutions.
Try to incorporate dark chocolate into more recipes.
Happy New Year ya'll!
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