miscellaneous
Tastes like chicken
Posted by chris on Jul 3rd, 2009 7 comments
- Pan-roasted chicken with sherry vinegar & marsala wine sauce
- Carrot mashed potatoes with fresh chives
- Asparagus with crushed garlic & olive oil
The past few weeks I’ve been traveling and moving around. I just set up shop in a new place in Oakland, next to Lake Merritt & Piedmont. So this is the first meal I’ve cooked in a long while. Luckily, I had the help of my friend, Brian.
I asked Brian to drop a whole chicken in a large bowl of salt water to brine it. Well, I misjudged the capacity of the bowl and the water (or “salmonella water” as Brian would call it) spilled onto our counter (or “salmonella counter” as Brian would call it) soaking a roll of paper towels (or “salmonella paper towels”) and his clothes (or “salmonella clothes” as Brian would call it).
He showered, changed clothes and did everything short of calling for a government Hazmat team to come sanitize the kitchen.
Everything else went smoothly and the mashed potatoes have been dubbed by Brian, “The best mashed potatoes I’ve ever had… That I can remember.” So unless he’s had mashed potatoes that were so tasty that it caused memory loss, I think that’s a good review.
daily diet
This day lacks waffles
Posted by annie on Dec 4th, 2008 add a comment
I had a pretty blasé food day (after the soup):
- three bowls of Chinese cabbage soup (I finally finished the huge tub of soup my mom gave me)
- one plate of salad with goma dressing
- half of a See’s milk chocolate bar with toffee
- one slice of hawaiian pizza
- two servings of sour cream and onion chips
- some strawberries
- two small cubes of cheese
- some grapes
- 1/8 of a piece of sausage
- two baby carrots
- one bit of chocolate cake
okay, I guess when I list it all out, it doesn’t seem blasé. but I don’t really like hawaiian pizza, chocolate, or cake.
miscellaneous
Chicken before the rooster
Posted by chris on Jan 17th, 2007 add a comment
TIP: When you want a midnight snack, don’t start cooking chicken stock from scratch. It’s now approaching 3AM and I’m finally able to eat my chicken soup that’s been simmering for over four hours.
For those who care, the ingredients are: the remains of a rotisserie chicken, chopped celery, baby carrots, chopped onions, minced garlic, herbs/seasoning (from Harry & David, but you can use whatever you got – I bet even just salt and pepper would taste good) and lots of water.
After letting those ingredients simmer over a low heat for several hours, I sleep-walked downstairs to the kitchen and tossed in some penne pasta.
Why am I still writing? It’s feasting time. 3AM is the proper hour for feasting, right?
