Is there something wrong with food porn?
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pecunium This is the third attempt I'm making to post this
I am annoyed with LJ.
I wrote this, and I am rewriting it because they were doing maintainence and so my journal was read only. The back button didn't ge back to what I had written and it seems to be lost in the ether.
Feh!
While we were gone we had a couple of friends looking after the animals (the snakes merely needed water, but the dogs, rats and mice need to be fed more often).
One of them flaked, so the other cut her vacation short and picked up the slack. Tomorrow I am making dinner for her, as a thank you, in addition to the money we paid her.
Yesterday we went shopping, at Costco. There were, I was told, only six things on the list (and they didn't have one of them) but item number 6 was, "additional food." Needless to say it took awhile.
And we didn't stock up as much as the last trip (some three months ago, maybe four). First we need more freezer space, and second, we still have some canned, and dry, goods from the last trip.
But, as we walked about I saw some things worth getting. A crock of stilton. It's covered in paraffin, so I can let it ripen a bit more. Or I can use it with some walnuts, or pecans, and some boston lettuce and pears and make a salad; or both.
Pears; I saw some, in flats. A flat, even much as I like pears seemed a bit much (six lbs) but then I remembered... I needed something for dessert tomorrow.
Which justified the money.
I started this morning.
A took about 2/3rds cup of slivered almonds, put them in a small cast iron pan and let the bottom layer just barely toast.
Tossed them into a Braun coffee mill (the kind that beats the beans to powder) and made them into meal. This was scaled into a pint, or so, of milk.
That, with sugar, eggs and vanilla will make the custard base for a pear tart. The pears will be slicedand dresssed with cinnamon, and perhaps nutmeg.
The entree will be a roast ternderloin of pork. If I choose to make a cumberland sauce I will lightly brine it, if not I will wrap it in salt.
Salad of red leaf and romaine, with some mesclin, which Maia calls weeds and tends to eat around, leaving them for me, tossed with a vinaigrette, and some grated miyzithra.
New potaoes, either chopped and tossed with parsley butter, or mashed with same.
For vegetable I will dash to the market and see what looks good. Maybe I will just ask Maia to hit the Farmers market and get some.
Then to freeze the rest of the tenderloin (I can easily get three meals out of it, as roasts, and if I make one small, and then put the other into two pieces I can make a soup, and a chinese meal from the remainder). I also need to portion and freeze the beef round we got.
We really need a larger freezer to take advnatage of the chance to buy in bulk (which reminds me, I need to pester Maia to get me some femurs for brown stock).
After some work with the dogs, I will start the starter sponging for rolls.
I am annoyed with LJ.
I wrote this, and I am rewriting it because they were doing maintainence and so my journal was read only. The back button didn't ge back to what I had written and it seems to be lost in the ether.
Feh!
While we were gone we had a couple of friends looking after the animals (the snakes merely needed water, but the dogs, rats and mice need to be fed more often).
One of them flaked, so the other cut her vacation short and picked up the slack. Tomorrow I am making dinner for her, as a thank you, in addition to the money we paid her.
Yesterday we went shopping, at Costco. There were, I was told, only six things on the list (and they didn't have one of them) but item number 6 was, "additional food." Needless to say it took awhile.
And we didn't stock up as much as the last trip (some three months ago, maybe four). First we need more freezer space, and second, we still have some canned, and dry, goods from the last trip.
But, as we walked about I saw some things worth getting. A crock of stilton. It's covered in paraffin, so I can let it ripen a bit more. Or I can use it with some walnuts, or pecans, and some boston lettuce and pears and make a salad; or both.
Pears; I saw some, in flats. A flat, even much as I like pears seemed a bit much (six lbs) but then I remembered... I needed something for dessert tomorrow.
Which justified the money.
I started this morning.
A took about 2/3rds cup of slivered almonds, put them in a small cast iron pan and let the bottom layer just barely toast.
Tossed them into a Braun coffee mill (the kind that beats the beans to powder) and made them into meal. This was scaled into a pint, or so, of milk.
That, with sugar, eggs and vanilla will make the custard base for a pear tart. The pears will be slicedand dresssed with cinnamon, and perhaps nutmeg.
The entree will be a roast ternderloin of pork. If I choose to make a cumberland sauce I will lightly brine it, if not I will wrap it in salt.
Salad of red leaf and romaine, with some mesclin, which Maia calls weeds and tends to eat around, leaving them for me, tossed with a vinaigrette, and some grated miyzithra.
New potaoes, either chopped and tossed with parsley butter, or mashed with same.
For vegetable I will dash to the market and see what looks good. Maybe I will just ask Maia to hit the Farmers market and get some.
Then to freeze the rest of the tenderloin (I can easily get three meals out of it, as roasts, and if I make one small, and then put the other into two pieces I can make a soup, and a chinese meal from the remainder). I also need to portion and freeze the beef round we got.
We really need a larger freezer to take advnatage of the chance to buy in bulk (which reminds me, I need to pester Maia to get me some femurs for brown stock).
After some work with the dogs, I will start the starter sponging for rolls.
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here is what i do
Date: 2005-01-06 02:01 am (UTC)Re: here is what i do
Date: 2005-01-06 02:10 am (UTC)It was 30 minutes before I was allowed to see it, even though the rest of you have had the chance to comment.
sigh.
TK
another comment
Date: 2005-01-06 02:09 am (UTC)Re: another comment
Date: 2005-01-06 02:13 am (UTC)It's my fault, and looking at my calendar tells me when I have something hanging fire.
TK
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Date: 2005-01-06 03:10 am (UTC)They had none of the items, not even the additional food?
It's mean of me to tease after all the crap you went through to post this...
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Date: 2005-01-06 03:38 am (UTC):P"
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Date: 2005-01-06 03:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-07 03:52 am (UTC)*blink*
Dang. I need to get my glasses prescription upgraded. At first I read, "get me some lemurs"...
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Date: 2005-01-07 05:09 am (UTC)None of the have enought meat to be worth eating, at least not when I have access to things like cows, and swine, and goats, and lamb and venison and caribou and kangaroo and horse.
TK