by pinback » Sat Nov 27, 2004 10:42 pm
All I did today was play NFL 2K5, watch stupid TV, look around for a gun to kill myself with... and cook!!!
Let's go through the culinary adventure which was my Saturday, from start (10:00 AM-ish) to finish (five minutes ago.)
BREAKFAST
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Scrambled eggs with ham, swiss cheese and green onions.
Fried, diced potatoes.
Review: The eggs, well, how can you fuck up eggs with ham and cheese? Damn tasty. The potatoes took a little finesse, though. Diced and parboiled before being sauteed in clarified butter, they browned and crisped up real nicely. Highly recommended.
LUNCH
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I didn't have "lunch", technically, so let's just skip ahead to...
AFTERNOON SNACK
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Sweet potato french fries.
Review: Extremely tasty, but I failed to make them crispy on the outside. Which is strange, because they were very brown. They just didn't "crisp up". Perhaps a dusting of flour ahead of time would help with this. Or maybe the potato I had was not primo quality. Or maybe sweet potatoes just don't crisp up good. Who knows.
DINNER
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NY Strip, w/red wine butter sauce.
Review: The meat, bought on sale from King Soopers a month ago, just ain't good. I did the best I could with it, but it ain't gonna make anyone forget Ruth's Chris. Or Outback. Or Sizzler. The sauce, made with a red wine reduction, shallots, and butter, was tangy, but perhaps a bit cloying. Beef stock would have been a welcome addition. But I didn't have any. So fuck off.
DESSERT
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Mango Lime Crepes a la mode
Review: Spectacular. My crepe recipe and technique is rock solid to begin with. You mix that with a caramel sauce of butter, sugar, and Dole Mango Lime Juice (because it's the only thing I had), and top it with vanilla ice cream, and now you are fucking talking.
This has been: My day of cooking. And looking for a gun.
All I did today was play NFL 2K5, watch stupid TV, look around for a gun to kill myself with... and [i]cook[/i]!!!
Let's go through the culinary adventure which was my Saturday, from start (10:00 AM-ish) to finish (five minutes ago.)
BREAKFAST
-------------
Scrambled eggs with ham, swiss cheese and green onions.
Fried, diced potatoes.
Review: The eggs, well, how can you fuck up eggs with ham and cheese? Damn tasty. The potatoes took a little finesse, though. Diced and parboiled before being sauteed in clarified butter, they browned and crisped up real nicely. Highly recommended.
LUNCH
-------
I didn't have "lunch", technically, so let's just skip ahead to...
AFTERNOON SNACK
---------------------
Sweet potato french fries.
Review: Extremely tasty, but I failed to make them crispy on the outside. Which is strange, because they were very brown. They just didn't "crisp up". Perhaps a dusting of flour ahead of time would help with this. Or maybe the potato I had was not primo quality. Or maybe sweet potatoes just don't crisp up good. Who knows.
DINNER
--------
NY Strip, w/red wine butter sauce.
Review: The meat, bought on sale from King Soopers a month ago, just ain't good. I did the best I could with it, but it ain't gonna make anyone forget Ruth's Chris. Or Outback. Or Sizzler. The sauce, made with a red wine reduction, shallots, and butter, was tangy, but perhaps a bit cloying. Beef stock would have been a welcome addition. But I didn't have any. So fuck off.
DESSERT
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Mango Lime Crepes [i]a la mode[/i]
Review: Spectacular. My crepe recipe and technique is rock solid to begin with. You mix that with a caramel sauce of butter, sugar, and Dole Mango Lime Juice (because it's the only thing I had), and top it with vanilla ice cream, and now you are fucking talking.
This has been: My day of cooking. And looking for a gun.