I gotta learn to cook for one...
I don't know why I have all these stupid food things. Maybe it's just because I like what I like and often, it involves just a little bit of this with a little bit of that.
Chinese food always came like this: Chicken chow mein, sweet and sour pork, ham friend rice, and egg foo yung. That's how we had chinese food and it's the little bit of this, little bit of that I like. I didn't find out about ordering the #1 until I tried to order chinese for a group of us on my first TDY to Bangor, Maine in 1991. They were gonna lynch me because what I wanted to order was about $50. Hey, you live and learn, but I genuinely didn't know any other way to eat chinese.
Same with mexican food. The combo plate came with a taco, a tamale, a cheese enchilada, and rice and beans. You got a little bit of this and that and the food was good. Even when you order chicken parmesan at a restaurant, you get a pasta with it. So I made lasagna, and I made pasta sauce with italian sausage links (just for flavor, of course) because chicken parmesan has to have sauce with it and if I was making from scratch, I might as well make enough. That meant two batches of sauce because I made lasagna, and of course only an infidel would use sliced mushrooms in pasta sauce. Pasta sauce gets whole button mushrooms. Keep in mind, this comes from a man who still believes you don't put ketchup on a hot dog...ever.
On top of all this, my stealth roomie is ill, so to be a good guy, I made a pot of minestrone soup from scratch. We have oodles of tomatoes to use and I made some use of frozen green peppers and green beans in the sauces and soup, so the garden is still giving back to us. I had to make the broth for the soup twice because while I was making the second batch of sauce for the chicken, I accidentally put the seasonings for it in the soup pot.
Oops.
Italian though, doesn't go good with football. What does? Guacamole. And chips. And ribs. June doesn't like spareribs or baby backs that much so it's country style ribs lightly dusted with one one side with this really good rib rub from the Amish store in Indiana. The other side is lightly basted with my homemade bbq sauce.
Soup is surprisingly filling. I put the soup in the crock pot and had a bowl of it. With breadsticks. And a small helping of chips and guac when things were going well in the first half of the game. Then the wheels fell off the locomotive. And I got full. I ate the half-portion of chicken left over and one little bite of a spare rib.
Like I said, I don't know how to cook for one and nobody dropped by for food. So, I broke out the food saver. It'll work out good because of work schedules. Now I don't, nor does my stealth roommate have to worry about cooking a meal after midnight. For the next week or so, it's just take it out of the freezer, thaw, zap, and viola', a very good meal. I used my foodsaver my mom bought me, so it'll work great. There are ribs, sausages, chicken, and three portions of lasagna so no cooking for a week or so.
In other news, the contractor showed up today and worked his guts out. The doors are installed and casing and baseboards are in progress. Shelves are up in the closets. I really like the french country style of doors I picked out. They look nice in there. He said it'll be done in two weeks.
Maybe we'll have a meal to celebrate. There's plenty of stuff in the fridge.
Chinese food always came like this: Chicken chow mein, sweet and sour pork, ham friend rice, and egg foo yung. That's how we had chinese food and it's the little bit of this, little bit of that I like. I didn't find out about ordering the #1 until I tried to order chinese for a group of us on my first TDY to Bangor, Maine in 1991. They were gonna lynch me because what I wanted to order was about $50. Hey, you live and learn, but I genuinely didn't know any other way to eat chinese.
Same with mexican food. The combo plate came with a taco, a tamale, a cheese enchilada, and rice and beans. You got a little bit of this and that and the food was good. Even when you order chicken parmesan at a restaurant, you get a pasta with it. So I made lasagna, and I made pasta sauce with italian sausage links (just for flavor, of course) because chicken parmesan has to have sauce with it and if I was making from scratch, I might as well make enough. That meant two batches of sauce because I made lasagna, and of course only an infidel would use sliced mushrooms in pasta sauce. Pasta sauce gets whole button mushrooms. Keep in mind, this comes from a man who still believes you don't put ketchup on a hot dog...ever.
On top of all this, my stealth roomie is ill, so to be a good guy, I made a pot of minestrone soup from scratch. We have oodles of tomatoes to use and I made some use of frozen green peppers and green beans in the sauces and soup, so the garden is still giving back to us. I had to make the broth for the soup twice because while I was making the second batch of sauce for the chicken, I accidentally put the seasonings for it in the soup pot.
Oops.
Italian though, doesn't go good with football. What does? Guacamole. And chips. And ribs. June doesn't like spareribs or baby backs that much so it's country style ribs lightly dusted with one one side with this really good rib rub from the Amish store in Indiana. The other side is lightly basted with my homemade bbq sauce.
Soup is surprisingly filling. I put the soup in the crock pot and had a bowl of it. With breadsticks. And a small helping of chips and guac when things were going well in the first half of the game. Then the wheels fell off the locomotive. And I got full. I ate the half-portion of chicken left over and one little bite of a spare rib.
Like I said, I don't know how to cook for one and nobody dropped by for food. So, I broke out the food saver. It'll work out good because of work schedules. Now I don't, nor does my stealth roommate have to worry about cooking a meal after midnight. For the next week or so, it's just take it out of the freezer, thaw, zap, and viola', a very good meal. I used my foodsaver my mom bought me, so it'll work great. There are ribs, sausages, chicken, and three portions of lasagna so no cooking for a week or so.
In other news, the contractor showed up today and worked his guts out. The doors are installed and casing and baseboards are in progress. Shelves are up in the closets. I really like the french country style of doors I picked out. They look nice in there. He said it'll be done in two weeks.
Maybe we'll have a meal to celebrate. There's plenty of stuff in the fridge.
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