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ellyssianThe posts today will be Legion.
I thought about writing them all out and spreading them across a few or a dozen days, but hey, maybe I'll just flood the market.
Food will, of course, take up most of them. Some measure of all, really. Even the two posts on architecture and home design (from the How to Tell if ... are from Another Planet series... see the other episodes here and here) will be related to food preparation. There will also be six recipes: three main dishes, one sauce, one component, and one overall Plan for the entire meal.
I've mentioned before that I get into things in waves. I can be really intensely focused for a while, and then I'll move on to other things. Obviously, the food wave is cresting now. Thursday had the recipe for sweet lemon cod and winey 'zo 'n 'zo. Saturday had the Valentine's Feast that will generate all the food posts mentioned above, and was previewed here and had results depicted here. Yesterday, there were egg rolls which also works fairly well as a stir fry recipe ~ thought I had posted a stir fry one before, but if I did, I failed to tag it with either food or recipes.
There's likely to be more food recipes ahead in the near future. Maybe. I have some hamburger, and I'm likely to try something different for making burgers, so maybe something on that at the end of the week. Everything else for the next week or so will involve less of the recipe and more of the open-package-and-heat variety, unfortunately. Although I've seen some newspaper articles claim that healthy, fresh foods are cheaper than the pre-processed crap out there, Deb goes into conniptions when I get into a cooking phase because I like to work with ingredients instead of heat-n-serve stuff, and, apparently, her issue with this doesn't involve taste or health, rather money, of which we have, well, none.
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aequitaslevitas drove to college today. All by his own self. Next step will be him getting a job ~ beyond the part time work with me* ~ so he can pay for gas.
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* He's very restricted on what times he can work; even if he doesn't have high school classes or college classes, his working permit is based on the school district we live in, not that he attends... so no work while they are in school, even if he is not. Which pretty much limits any landscaping help to the summer vacation ~ can't exactly do that sort of thing in the night time, or, even, schedule it to start late enough in the day to take him along. I suppose now that he's driving, he'll be able to come out in the afternoon for a few hours a day... hadn't thought of that until typing it... but that may work, although it means two vehicles going to the site... =)
I thought about writing them all out and spreading them across a few or a dozen days, but hey, maybe I'll just flood the market.
Food will, of course, take up most of them. Some measure of all, really. Even the two posts on architecture and home design (from the How to Tell if ... are from Another Planet series... see the other episodes here and here) will be related to food preparation. There will also be six recipes: three main dishes, one sauce, one component, and one overall Plan for the entire meal.
I've mentioned before that I get into things in waves. I can be really intensely focused for a while, and then I'll move on to other things. Obviously, the food wave is cresting now. Thursday had the recipe for sweet lemon cod and winey 'zo 'n 'zo. Saturday had the Valentine's Feast that will generate all the food posts mentioned above, and was previewed here and had results depicted here. Yesterday, there were egg rolls which also works fairly well as a stir fry recipe ~ thought I had posted a stir fry one before, but if I did, I failed to tag it with either food or recipes.
There's likely to be more food recipes ahead in the near future. Maybe. I have some hamburger, and I'm likely to try something different for making burgers, so maybe something on that at the end of the week. Everything else for the next week or so will involve less of the recipe and more of the open-package-and-heat variety, unfortunately. Although I've seen some newspaper articles claim that healthy, fresh foods are cheaper than the pre-processed crap out there, Deb goes into conniptions when I get into a cooking phase because I like to work with ingredients instead of heat-n-serve stuff, and, apparently, her issue with this doesn't involve taste or health, rather money, of which we have, well, none.
In other news,
aequitaslevitas drove to college today. All by his own self. Next step will be him getting a job ~ beyond the part time work with me* ~ so he can pay for gas.~ ~ ~
* He's very restricted on what times he can work; even if he doesn't have high school classes or college classes, his working permit is based on the school district we live in, not that he attends... so no work while they are in school, even if he is not. Which pretty much limits any landscaping help to the summer vacation ~ can't exactly do that sort of thing in the night time, or, even, schedule it to start late enough in the day to take him along. I suppose now that he's driving, he'll be able to come out in the afternoon for a few hours a day... hadn't thought of that until typing it... but that may work, although it means two vehicles going to the site... =)
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Date: 2009-02-17 04:07 am (UTC)Also- the more from-scratch I cook, the more chemical the prefab stuff tastes.
Now: I still do like it sometimes. Sometimes what I WANT is a frozen pizza, or buffalo wings, etc... but any more they're not as good as they ought to be, so I'm looking for homemade versions. I'm still on the fence with the pizza: the prefab isn't as good as I want, by my own stuff doesn't hit the right buttons, for some reason. Dumb! I do like frozen hot wings upon occasion, though... and these are not, on sale, really more pricey than buying the damn overpriced raw wings myself, which is stupid. But that's another issue.
In general- the more I cook, the better I like my own cooking and the less enticing other cooking is.
If you're looking for a good set of tasty and non-pre-fab recipes, I like Cook's Country magazine- they have mostly easy stuff, NO cream of whatever soup, and pretty fast, easy and REALLY good. I do tend to cut the fat appreciably, by the way. And the salt.
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Date: 2009-02-17 04:16 am (UTC)When I made this feast, that's the first time I've added salt in my cooking in maybe, I don't know... 15? 20? years? I used the sea salt, and went very light with it.
I'll try and get Deb's pizza recipe for you, but the biggest key to that is the pan. The iron pans are the best ~ we've got two that Deb was given as a gift when she stopped making them for a living. They were used, broken in by years of making pizzas, and they work beautifully. Of course, now we have to make 5 pizzas, so three are in other pans, and she's almost never happy with the crusts on those others.