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Sunday, July 24, 2011

Food Bonanza day

After lying in bed all day, literally all day until about 5:00pm due to some adventures last night, I decided some cooking was in order. We originally were planning to have a little bbq but no one was really prepared so I decided it was a good day to do some cooking for the week.
On the menu:
Corn muffins
Red Potato Salad
Tuna Casserole

Corn muffins are easy because all they involve are a box, an egg and milk. They went into the oven while I prepared the water for the noodles. Meanwhile we start heating up water for the potatoes and slicing some onions. I knew the general principles behind potato salad and tuna casserole but I didn't have an actual recipe so I did a quick check online and found an easy tuna recipe that I could modify a little. The potato salad I used Paula Dean's recipe to vaguely go off of because all the other recipes involved hard boiled eggs or bacon for some reason. There are no eggs allowed in my potato salad, thanks anyway. The corn muffins come out in 15 minutes and then I can put together the tuna.

While I was waiting for the noodles to cook and the potato water to boil I started putting the "sauce" for the casserole together which is cream of mushroom soup, tuna, milk, onions, a little cheese, salt, pepper and paprika. Since I was still waiting I explored the fridge for some additions and got a tiny bit of frozen peas and carrots, some pickles and a few pieces of a portobello mushroom.

The whole thing wouldn't fit in one pan so I used a second small pan, which I happened to be storing a little bit of leftover tofu in. It seemed silly to toss out the tofu so I crumpled it up and put it on top of the second casserole. I haven't gotten to taste that one yet but it looks pretty good.


Meanwhile, the potatoes that take forever to cook come out and I mix them in with onions, mayo, mustard, a little cider vinegar, salt, pepper and a tiny bit of water. I was pretty proud of it cause it tasted good. Some of the potatoes may still be a tiny bit underdone and the onions are cut in kinda ridiculously huge pieces, but that's ok.




All in all it was successful, although not the best dinner to invite company too cause there's a lot of onions. I did get a thumbs up from my roommates on the tuna casserole. Yay cheap and easy food!!! And the best part is I have tons of leftovers so I can eat for a long time!

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Creepy Ice Cream




I'm really starting to think that we have a resident creeper here in my town, or if not, then we have some sort of haunted ice cream truck. Ever since I moved in to this place I've heard the ice cream truck at odd hours of the night. And let me tell you, it's pretty creepy when it's dark and you're alone.

I understand when it's 7pm and dark out that you could still get some kids to come out, because it's summer and you know, ice cream is great. But I routinely hear this truck at 9:30 or later and it creeps me out. In fact, I just heard it about ten minutes ago and it's after 10pm now. I'd also like to point out that I've only physically SEEN the truck once. It usually sounds like it's eerie music is floating just out of reach.

So, is there a scary clown driving the ice cream truck? Is there a ghostly spirit who likes to play with the annoying music device? Or is there some weirdo trying to lure kids out of the house at night? Or just an honest business man looking to make a buck? You decide.
Note: Searching for ice cream truck in google images presents a surprisingly diverse array of results. Additionally, googling ice cream truck clown is not a good idea unless you enjoy insomnia.

More troublesome still, is another item I found in my search for ice cream images. I won't get credit for being timely about this news, but apparently when Casino Royale came out in 2009, Daniel Craig was immortalized as an ice cream pop. Yes, that's right ladies and gentleman, you can actually consume the head and torso of Daniel Craig. And a very nice looking torso at that.
It's certainly one of the more ridiculous edible things I've ever seen.Of course the hilarity is emphasized by the blond model in the background attempting to lick Daniel Craig the ice pop. Only the British.... You can see the article here.

Thursday, July 14, 2011

Perfect Foods....







There is nothing like a mango at the perfect stage of ripeness and that is what I had tonight. Literally a perfect fruit- not over ripe, not under ripe and not stringy. I think I picked the optimal day to eat it because any more it would have been too much. I was going to offer to share some with my room mate but I couldn't help myself and I ate the whole thing. It reminded me of India and drinking mango juice. It was also nice and chilled from the fridge. I still have one mango left!
In a completely different realm of declicious foods, I had some frozen raviolis for dinner with the jar of Victoria's sauce I've been using lately. I know I wrote about making my own sauce but this sauce is literally one of the best things I've ever tasted. It's so good I could drink it. Unfortunately it's also $7 a bottle unless it's on sale. They make a whole range of sauces but the marinara is definitely the best. It just tastes like tomatoes and oil and fabulous! There's no such thing as too much of this sauce. Wonderful food night!


Friday, July 8, 2011

Potted Garden

I have been meaning to write about my garden since I first started it, but that now was several months ago for the peas and a little less I guess for the cucumbers. I really wanted to show how they got bigger from these tiny little morsels into cool plants. Luckily they are nowhere near done growing so I can still show you!

The peas I started from scratch, ie, a seed. Unfortunately a lot of them have died and now I only really have 2 good ones. I could start some more if I feel motivated I guess. Yesterday I noticed the first pea pod and it was so exciting! Isn't she a beauty!?


I was so distracted by the emergence of the first two cucumbers that I almost missed the pea pod. It's really neat to watch something grow all the way from seed. The cucumbers I bought when they were little, and I wasn't really expecting them to get tall because I got a cucumber bush, which it said was good for pots. They've certainly sprouted up and are grabbing on to everything they can reach. I tried to put the popsicle stick in for size comparison.



I have to give them tons of water because they dry up so quickly. Unfortunately my spinach doesn't seem to have made it. I may have to try again. Check out the little baby cucumbers!



I'll keep an update on how the crop is progressing. I'm guessing it will still take a while till something edible comes up. For now, I just keep watching and watering.

I am a lazy blogger...

Since I haven't really been keeping up with things even though I have a bunch of posts in mind. For this entry I'm going to cheat and let my mom do the work, because she sent me these ridiculous pictures of vehicles overloaded with odd things. I have to say that I saw a lot of odd things being carried in odd ways in India, but these are pretty good.
I'm posting a few of my favorites.