FOOOOOOOOOD

So...

bachelor padding it this week...

making food every night is tough, last night i survived on left-overs (chili) and salad. I made enough salad to go with the fish soup for lunch and as a first course tonight. The fish in the soup at lunch today was not good. I mean it wasn't bad but it was all mealy and pretty texturally unappealing. Good think I don't give a crap. It was pretty good for lunch yesterday not as good as fresh out of the pot.

But hey. What can you expect for some sustainably farmed Tilapia (or so some major food retail lead me to believe). Still good.

Anyway. Salad was a good way to start.

And while the above freezing part of the food preservation box was devoid of most protein I went into the sub-freezing part and found some old chicken. Hmmm

Chopping time:

onion (1/2 of a sweet one)
2 serrano peppers
2 stalks of celery
4 smallish carrots
2 mini heads of broccoli
6 cloves of garlic
2 jewel yams
8 brussels sprouts

oven at 350 convection

in big pyrex pan (I started with the small one but with the onions and the carrots I went for the bigger one) went some bacon fat (rendered from some Trader Joe's or 365 cancer salt free bacon) and olive oil.

Carrots and serrano were sliced, yams were quartered length-wise then sliced, garlic sliced thinly, brussels sprouts were halved...

tossed all that shit into the pan after I had melted the bacon fat (i keep that shit in the freezer) in the pan.

Added some soy sauce (need some glutamate) and dried thyme (i don't have any fresh stuff). Popped it in there for 30 minutes - tossing and mixing every 10.

I'm doing this all while I'm wondering why I don't have the cojones to go to the Flogging Molly show at Lupo's tonight in PVD alone.

Anyway. So protein right? So i had pulled out some chicken that needed to be cooked and some Maine shrimp. Based on the veggie side of things and the oven I put the shrimp in the non-freezing part of the box and went with the chicken. Once thawed (while the other crap was cooking in the convection oven) I added some soy sauce (can you even have enough glutamate?) ginger powder and dried Thyme leaves.

After about 30-40 min in the oven i popped the chicken on top.

and am currently waiting... i set the timer for 15 min and it just went off. Time to check.

Going to publish THEN come back and report on progress (just for you RSS jackoffs)

Mmmmmm

so good

added some extra hot cayenne pepper powder on top and wow - holy smokes this is good.

Enough for lunch tomorrow too.

Good stuff.

Okay.
Food - finish eating and then sleep... if the dogs allow me to...

fortunately no peeing all over the place today.

Who's coming over for dinner this weekend. I'm cooking and it will be good.

Heddwch
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