November 19, 2007
The baking begins
Why can't they make a pumpkin pie recipe that doesn't end up with the shell being filled to the brim? It's a bitch to move that cautiously to get the damn thing in the oven, and then it ends up spilling anyway and making it smell like a disaster in here. Stupid recipes. I'm doing four pumpkin pies this year, and at the rate things are going I'll be lucky to get to taste one of them. I'm also doing two cheater cheesecake pies, one of which will have blueberries in it.
And I don't care who I have to stab with a fork to get it, I am getting a piece of the blueberry pie. So all you bitches best step back.
Hopefully this (and the turkey roast thing I'll be doing on Wed) will be the extent of my T-day cooking responsibilities. I'm just not feeling the whole cook my ass off thing this year. Fortunately we've managed to get the Hubby's mother to agree to restauranting our feast day, which not only means no cooking but also no dishes. Now that's something to be thankful for.
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March 09, 2007
General foodishness
I was supposed to make split pea soup out of the hambone that we got (inside a ham, of course) from the neighbors for xmas. Only I got lazy and by the time I actually got around to getting the ingredients the bone was all funkdafied. Because I was too stupid to just put the damn thing in the freezer. Feh. So now I have the ingredients for the soup, sans hambone, and a friendly crock-pot recipe to make it in. (Yes, I know it says hamhocks. I just wanted to find a recipe to follow for the crock-pot, because I didn't feel like stove-topping it.) I oughta just go ahead and make it this weekend so it'll get eaten up before I'm out in cali.
So we went grocery shopping today. Finally. I don't know why the hubby complains that the food bill is so high when he keeps on postponing our usual 2-week schedule an extra week all the time. Of course we're spending nearly $200 every trip - we only go twice a month! But this time I had basically woke up right when we had to go, and there wasn't any cereal or oatmeal bars, so I ended up going hungry. Bad thing to do, of course, but we did surprisingly well anyway.
I peeped out a twelver of the Lipton green tea stuff, because I like green tea and wanted to see if that brand was worth the trouble. It's the citrus variety, which I'm kind of ambivalent about, but it didn't have that yicky fake lemon taste to it that you usually get with pre-lemonized tea. Okay, so it didn't say 'lemon' it said 'citrus' - it still didn't have that nasty fakey taste. But other than that the stuff is basically unremarkable. It tastes like slightly tangy green tea.
The Omaha steaks have been entirely acceptable so far. The pork chops are teeny compared to the ones we get from Schwan, but the steaks work well enough. They have these zippy au grautin potato things that are like breaded racket balls. Easy to make, but a tad bland - they desperately need a bit of salt (or more cheese melted on top).
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November 16, 2006
It's really my fault but I'm blaming the weather
Oh great. It's a week til T-day, and I have yet to even start getting the pad in shape for the inevitable guestage. I keep sleeping all day instead. Stupid hibernation urge. I should be cleaning something right now instead of goofing off online, but you know how it is. Addictive evil internet.
I'm not doing an entire turkey, because I'm the only one who would eat the non-caucasian flesh. I don't expect to make anything from scratch either. Way too lazy. I think it'll be just as good to nuke half the meal and slice up a nice turkey breast. The tryptophan will do the rest.
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