Mostly Dinner
Apr. 14th, 2008 07:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseClothes irony: because I'm not a fan of black, my black t-shirts, unlike the rest of my clothes, never wear out. So there inevitably comes a time when most - or all - of my clean t-shirts resemble outtakes from the Neil Gaiman fashion magazine. Fortunately, tomorrow's cold enough for long sleeves.
Also, very few contemporary music albums are good work albums. However, a number of songs are vastly improved by mix-and-match. Also, why do I love awful Fall Out Boy when I'm working? Why? Discuss in comments.
This weekend I made wannabe stir-fried chicken with garlic and ginger, then made rice in the same pan. (I say wanna stir-fry because it was actually cooked over medium heat and covered, but used soy sauce.) That got packaged with frozen vegetables and stuffed in the freezer. I also made peanut butter cookies, because I could. Lunch today was a boring sandwich - I have been spoiled by good rye bread - and veggies and an orange. Tonight's adventure in cooking was... here, have the breakown.
Couscous and Ground Beef Dish-Out (version 0.9 - beta)
2 small onions, chopped
2 or 3 cloves garlic
1 tsbp olive oil
1 lb ground beef
1 can diced tomatoes (14.5 oz)
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp thyme
1 1/4 cup water
1 cup water
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup frozen peas
Sautee onions and garlic in olive oil. Add the garlic later than the onions. Add the ground beef and cook through. Drain excess fat. Mix with tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon and thyme. Make couscous (heat water to boiling; turn off heat, add couscous; let sit 5 minutes and fluff with fork). Nuke corn and peas. Mix together and serve.
Notes: next time the veggies all go in the beef together and get heated. There's a disproportionate quantity of meat to everything else. The spices aren't inherently awful, but need tweaking. Originally I was thinking of adding lemon and pine nuts, but I'm not sure about the lemon now. I wouldn't feed this as a company meal on a dare, but as an exercise in pantry-and-freezer cooking it's not a complete failure. \o/
Operation Clear Freezer Space keeps running into my conviction that the freezer needs to be stocked for Armageddon (or five lunches on demand, take your pick). I need a couple of teenage boys on tap to help with my cooking experiments.
Also, very few contemporary music albums are good work albums. However, a number of songs are vastly improved by mix-and-match. Also, why do I love awful Fall Out Boy when I'm working? Why? Discuss in comments.
This weekend I made wannabe stir-fried chicken with garlic and ginger, then made rice in the same pan. (I say wanna stir-fry because it was actually cooked over medium heat and covered, but used soy sauce.) That got packaged with frozen vegetables and stuffed in the freezer. I also made peanut butter cookies, because I could. Lunch today was a boring sandwich - I have been spoiled by good rye bread - and veggies and an orange. Tonight's adventure in cooking was... here, have the breakown.
Couscous and Ground Beef Dish-Out (version 0.9 - beta)
2 small onions, chopped
2 or 3 cloves garlic
1 tsbp olive oil
1 lb ground beef
1 can diced tomatoes (14.5 oz)
2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp thyme
1 1/4 cup water
1 cup water
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup frozen peas
Sautee onions and garlic in olive oil. Add the garlic later than the onions. Add the ground beef and cook through. Drain excess fat. Mix with tomatoes, cumin, cinnamon and thyme. Make couscous (heat water to boiling; turn off heat, add couscous; let sit 5 minutes and fluff with fork). Nuke corn and peas. Mix together and serve.
Notes: next time the veggies all go in the beef together and get heated. There's a disproportionate quantity of meat to everything else. The spices aren't inherently awful, but need tweaking. Originally I was thinking of adding lemon and pine nuts, but I'm not sure about the lemon now. I wouldn't feed this as a company meal on a dare, but as an exercise in pantry-and-freezer cooking it's not a complete failure. \o/
Operation Clear Freezer Space keeps running into my conviction that the freezer needs to be stocked for Armageddon (or five lunches on demand, take your pick). I need a couple of teenage boys on tap to help with my cooking experiments.
