An evening of deliciousness.
Jul. 11th, 2010 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sarasvatiI feel much better, emotionally, than I have these past few days. My stomach's still playing hell with me, but that's practically par for the course, and I tolerate that as best I can while still going about doing the things that need to be done.
I decided last night to have another experiment in cooking, and so put some beans on to soak overnight. Boiled them today, then baked them in a mix of tomato soup, water, and a bit of pepper, with some Italian breakfast sausages mixed in. The sausages had been sitting in the freezer for a while, and since I couldn't refreeze them after thawing them, I just fried up the rest to grab as quick snacks or for breakfast or something.
The baked beans turned out awesomely, considering I hadn't made them before and didn't follow a recipe. I knew that normally people add bacon or pork along with molasses in baked beans, but since I don't like molasses we don't keep any in the kitchen, and we don't have bacon or pork right now, the sausages seemed like a good way to add some flavour. And I'm happy with the result.
Next time I make baked beans, though, won't be until winter. Seeing as how the range needs to be on for an hour and the oven itself on for 3 or 4, and the beans themselves are full of protein and fibre, they're best saved for a time when the apartment needs to be heated and we need things to warm us from the inside too.
Skinless boneless chicken breasts were on sale today, too, at less than half their normal price, so I picked up a package of 6. 2 will go into a chicken-and-rice casserole later in the week, and the others will probably be used when Rei makes his famous Cantonese chicken.
Must remember to buy another bag of potatoes soon, so I can experiment making croquettes.
The more I cook, the more I want to cook. If we could only have a bigger budget (meaning, if I can only get a job soon), then I can cook more often and make better things, and no doubt the variety of healthy (or healthy-ish) foods will help our health improve, and give me something fun to do!
Am I turning domestic again? Why yes, yes I am! And I'm loving it, too!
Maybe tomorrow I'll try cleaning the muffin pan again so I can make those honey-bran muffins I've been planning...
I decided last night to have another experiment in cooking, and so put some beans on to soak overnight. Boiled them today, then baked them in a mix of tomato soup, water, and a bit of pepper, with some Italian breakfast sausages mixed in. The sausages had been sitting in the freezer for a while, and since I couldn't refreeze them after thawing them, I just fried up the rest to grab as quick snacks or for breakfast or something.
The baked beans turned out awesomely, considering I hadn't made them before and didn't follow a recipe. I knew that normally people add bacon or pork along with molasses in baked beans, but since I don't like molasses we don't keep any in the kitchen, and we don't have bacon or pork right now, the sausages seemed like a good way to add some flavour. And I'm happy with the result.
Next time I make baked beans, though, won't be until winter. Seeing as how the range needs to be on for an hour and the oven itself on for 3 or 4, and the beans themselves are full of protein and fibre, they're best saved for a time when the apartment needs to be heated and we need things to warm us from the inside too.
Skinless boneless chicken breasts were on sale today, too, at less than half their normal price, so I picked up a package of 6. 2 will go into a chicken-and-rice casserole later in the week, and the others will probably be used when Rei makes his famous Cantonese chicken.
Must remember to buy another bag of potatoes soon, so I can experiment making croquettes.
The more I cook, the more I want to cook. If we could only have a bigger budget (meaning, if I can only get a job soon), then I can cook more often and make better things, and no doubt the variety of healthy (or healthy-ish) foods will help our health improve, and give me something fun to do!
Am I turning domestic again? Why yes, yes I am! And I'm loving it, too!
Maybe tomorrow I'll try cleaning the muffin pan again so I can make those honey-bran muffins I've been planning...
