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New frontiers
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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This week, I am undertaking two new culinary endeavors that are completely new to me - one, I've had only once in my life, and the other I had never tasted before coming to college: chicken salad (as in, the sandwich filler) and pesto. Basil garlic pesto, to be exact. I WILL ashamedly admit that I found both recipes on the internet (and didn't even crack most of the cookbooks my mother handed down to me...), but these are, in fact, only the adventures of the current week. Both the chicken salad AND the pesto are an attempt to reignite a passion... okay, no... more like a willingness AT ALL... to take sandwiches for lunch. Don't get me wrong... I'd settle for a plain jane lunchmeat Kraft cheese sandwich anyday rather than go hungry, but after taking sandwiches in my lunch almost every day for at LEAST four years (high school), let's just say I'm a bit disillusioned with the whole sliver-o-meat sliver-o-dairy sliver-o-carb thing. My hope is that with a little TLC a sandwich could be a thing of beauty again... *sigh.*
Okay... in all seriousness, though. I am quickly becoming rather addicted to cooking. It started with a baking craze last semester (who ever thought having an oven could be SO WONDERFUL?!!!), during which I made countless chocolate chip (& lemon poppyseed... but not all three together) muffins and two or three loaves of banana bread that were, I must say, the creme de la creme of my baking output up to this point in time. It's cheap... bananas are even cheaper than apples per pound, and I NEVER eat all of them before they go brown... even when I only get two or three! ...and it's delicious. And that's what counts. I looooooove banana bread... even just talking about it I'm having a hard time not grabbing a couple bananas out of the fridge and whipping up some. Cooking's great, but impulse cooking is another story! I've actually gotten to the point that when I first decide I want to make something, I purposely DO NOT go to the grocery store for a day or two; my hope is that if it's just a craving, it'll pass, and if it's not, then, well, off I go! I at least feel like I'm saving some money that way.
Come to think of it, I've been cooking a lot of strange stuff lately...
- -Last week, I made a crock pot's worth of beef and vegetable soup for the guys (@ Chi Alpha). And, of course, they ate the entiiiiiire pot in 5 or 6 minutes. Trenchermen, I say.
- Two weeks ago, I bought myself some teriyaki sauce & pineapple, and with the help of this recipe, made myself a "copycat" of Red Robin's Banzai Burger... my absolute favorite burger in the whole wide beef-eating world. It was admittedly not as good as theirs, but hey, it was worth a try! ...I got to use Teresa's George Foreman, too, which was sweet.
- ...also 2 weeks ago: Kelsey's oreo truffle balls. I just ate the last one on Monday. :`(
- ...and 3 weeks ago (I think?), I whipped up a pot of "Leetle Veenies" and a jar of Gma's olive dip for our Super Bowl party. I was definitely not disappointed when there were leftovers... :)
So... there you have it. An entire entry about food. At least I can say that though my cooking has turned up a notch, I started working out again at about the same time (lol)... .and the dishes seem to be getting healthier. So there's my excuse to keep on cookin'.
What should I make next?Labels: Cooking
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