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[May. 2nd, 2008|02:44 pm] |
I made little chicken pot pies!!! They're about the size of muffins... seeing as I made them in a muffin pan... and they're just right for lunching on!
( More of the same. )
After I learn how to cook, I'm going to have to learn how to do so more efficiently. It takes me forever and I go through about a million dishes. |
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| More cooking? No! More pretty lunchboxes? Yes! |
[Apr. 27th, 2008|12:21 pm] |
New lunch! I think I'm so into bento lunch box making because it's the only creative outlet I have at the moment. Cooking and arranging is much less work for my wrist than, say, knitting and playing my viola. Although I am dying to play my viola. My emg is on Tuesday and my consultation with the doctor is May 1st. They're probably going to tell me I need surgery. Bleh.
Moving right along...
This time it's shrimp and avocado rolls. The rice didn't come out as sticky as I wanted, so they look pretty sloppy, but delicious! The soaking in lime juice worked to keep the avocados looking pretty and green and gave them a little extra kick without being too OMGLIME, so I did it again today.
Next I'm either going to try a pasta dish with turkey meatballs or some sort of omelet that I can bake in the little cup I baked the shepherd's pie in. (Which was good, except the potatoes were really bland. And it needed more veggies on the inside. I'll know for next time.) The cherry tomatoes with cheddar were too good to pass up again. I'll come up with something different for my lunch on Tuesday.
Wow. I might actually learn to cook something during this. Weird.
Story time now.
I sing at work a lot. And dance too, but only when whoever I'm working with will join me and that's really only when I'm working with Jes, but singing is kind-of my thing. Jes and I were closing last night, she was in the back doing dishes and I was out front packing the food away and singing my little heart out at a reasonably quiet volume. Anyway, this middle-aged Pakistani man and his barely-off-the-boat Russian wife who had tried to order a smoothie earlier and couldn't get the words out so we just made her whatever we guessed was what she wanted and just happened to be right... so this guy and his wife come up and the guy tells me I have a very nice voice and I should go somewhere and sing for money. I thanked him and said I used to sing, but I don't anymore except at work, so he was welcome to pay me more to sing there. He laughed and asked me more music questions and I got on the subject of me being an English major, studying toward being a teacher.
Long story short, I now am an English tutor. He just emailed me, so I have to send him my schedule, and then he's going to pay me to come in an hour before my shift two to four times in the next two weeks to practice with him.
It's not a music student, but I'll certainly take it. Wewt. |
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| BENTO! |
[Apr. 26th, 2008|01:37 pm] |
I hate to cook and I hate assembling my own food, mostly because I suck at it, but I saw that LJ community for bento lunch boxes and it looked like fun, so I decided to try it.
I didn't come up with most of this stuff by myself. A lot of it came from lunchinabox.net (and mostly from someone who calls her son "Bug". Coincidence? Only ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) thebatsmeow knows!).
But I have to say, I'm really proud of myself because the final product is pretty awesome.
( Nikki cooked something!! ) |
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| We are cooler than cool. |
[Aug. 10th, 2007|03:04 pm] |
So macdawgversion2 and I made this amazingly delicious cake for his friend Rana's birthday:
But before you prepare your sweet tooth for the first savory bite, I should probably tell you what's in it first.
( You know you want to. ) |
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| So. Entertainment, anyone? |
[Aug. 8th, 2007|12:51 pm] |
Just so you all know, I made the casserole anyway [sans the onions] and it was actually pretty decent. Kitchen cabinets, you have not been burned in vain! Actually, that fire had pretty good range - the ceiling has smoke marks on it, too. I should get pictures.
I was planning on walking to the center today to pick up a few things, but it's humid as all hell and it's supposed to rain from now until about 3:00. I had also wanted to get my hair cut sometime this week because it is getting so thick that it could be developing nuclear weapons under there and I'd never know, but I don't want to have it restyled and then walk outside and watch it all go POOF... so I suddenly have a lot more time on my hands.
I still have to finish the laundry and I'm sure there are dishes to put away and I have a book to read and practicing to do... but for some reason, I've got no drive to do anything. I didn't wake up until 11:30 today. I took a shower and then got right back into bed. I'm very... relaxed. haha I wonder why.
There are only two more sheets left in my handwritten journal. I refuse to fill those pages until I find an adequate replacement, for which Mac and I will be searching this weekend. I'm kindof sad. I'm very attached to my fuzzy pink notebook. |
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| This is why I don't cook things. |
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