When Cooking - Food <> Heat

[grammarwoman]

I have a very messy kitchen right now, but it's as a result of much food prep. I boiled tortellini for the Emperor, shredded chicken and simmered it in Trader Joe's Curry Sauce, made some instant brown rice, served up the chicken + rice + cottage cheese (the curry sauce was pretty zingy) to me and my husband, then I made Alton Brown's gazpacho.

I'm geeked about the gazpacho, as I made it entirely with things I already had in the kitchen with no additional shopping required. That may not sound like much of an accomplishment, but considering it lists more than 10 ingredients, I'm counting it as a win for my garden and pantry: fresh (yellow and red) tomatoes and cucumbers from my garden, an onion from the fridge, peppers from a co-worker's garden, and all the rest in the fridge or cabinet. It's very pretty, and quite tasty.

Comments

[kass]

Go you, holy wow!

[grammarwoman]

Thank you!

I enjoy cooking, but it so very rarely happens that I have the necessary combination of events: time, ingredients, counter space, and energy.

[ivorygates]

Wow! Impressed! A lot!

[grammarwoman]

Heh - thank you! I used to cook a lot more before the Emperor arrived and started having opinions about food, mostly negative. Now our menu is quite limited and repetitive, so I like to branch out once in a while.

[ivorygates]

:) That reminds me of the immortal words of a FOAF's baby sister, age 8:

FOAFBSA8: Have I ever eaten this before?

FOAF: No.

FOAFBSA8: I don't like it.

[grammarwoman]

Yeah, that's pretty much his attitude.

[ivorygates]

At least it makes grocery shopping easier?

Or not.

[umadoshi]

That sounds amazing. (My husband does 99% of the cooking in our household, and it's all like alchemy to me. *_*)

[grammarwoman]

Thank you!

Oooo, I am so jealous. My husband firmly refuses to do anything that isn't assembling ingredients out of a box or sticking pre-made offerings in boiling water, the oven, or the microwave. *sigh* Which constitutes most of our meals, anyway.

[umadoshi]

I've never properly learned to cook (I can bake, though!), but I hate washing dishes less than he does, so he does the meal prep and I do the cleanup. *g* If it were the other way around, our meals would be much less interesting--not that they're generally ambitious--and the kitchen wouldn't be as clean as I'd like, so it works out.