I am too lazy to sort
Just throwing left over ham into a frying pan with some vegetables doesn’t mean it is really a stir fry. Especially, if you don’t even bother to have rice as well. It’s just fried ham with vegetables. Don’t do this again.
I just took some ham and chopped it up into little pieces. Heated up the frying pan with some oil and the rest of my roasted garlic spread. Threw in some frozen vegetables. And that’s all I am calling my ham stir fry.
Once again don’t do this again.
Minami
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Even my nendoroids miss baseball. Minami Kawashima from Moshidora: baseball manager managing under the rules of Peter Drucker.
One of things about cooking once in awhile is that you accumulate plenty of ingredients which you may or may not use again. In my root cellar I had a potato which I threw into my Mushroom Soup. I still have some garlic and an onion in there as well. I thought about making some eggs this morning but found my sink with the frying pan I would use. So in lieu of making an omelette, I decided to roast the remnants of the head of garlic and try to make some type of garlic butter spread.
I first boiled the garlic as per this recipe. Then when they were tender. I pan fried/roasted them in a tablespoon of oil. I actually used some salt, thyme ,and red pepper flakes as they cooked in the frying pan. When golden brown, I threw the cloves in a container with a tablespoon of butter and mashed them together. The butter melted, but I’m hoping that storing in the fridge will resolidify it.
What should I use this garlic spread for?
In the middle of watching the morning showing of In Time at the local cinerama, the bulb on the projector went out. We sat and waited for them to replace the bulb. It took 15 minutes. That and the two hours of the movie I won’t get back. It brings me closer to death.
The story is about a future world wherein you don’t age after you are 25, but you only have 1 year of life left. You gain more time by working. There are the rich in time who have years and decades and there are the 99% who live day to day, hour to hour, and minute to minute. Justin Timberlake lives moment to moment. His mom is the hot Olivia Wilde. Because of her, he becomes the Time Robin Hood. He gives time from the rich to the poor. Amanda Seyfried was a bored rich girl who fell in with Justin. They become Bonnie and Clyde of the Seconds. They’ll give you the time of day.
Does that sound exciting? It does to a bit, but after a while it got boring. The idea of the time clock was intriguing the time heists not so much. They should’ve stuck with the time idea. What do you do to gain another second of life? The difference between time poor and time rich? Explore these ideas. Don’t fall back into the cliché of good bad. It feels fake.
I wish I could get back that 2 hours and 15 minutes.
2 of 5 stars.
Listen to the WTMD this morning for some good music. They are celebrating the day of the dead with music from dead musicians. There’s all kinds of good music on and lots of fun too. That band in heaven is probably the greatest band ever.
Do no evil? Do know evil.
Google changed up Reader and I am unhappy.I've been using Reader for a long time now. It is the only Google app I use. The only Google app I think is fine. They went and changed it so that it fits into their Google+ strategy and it has become a chore to use.At work on IE, it keeps wanting to have me switch to Chrome. On IE, it looks like crap. At home on Camino, it doesn't get any better. It still looks like crap. On Safari, it still looks like crap. At least its mobile interface hasn't changed.I make do with what I've got as an RSS reader app, but I'm gonna have to change out if it gets any worse.
Erik Satie’s Gnossienne 1. I thought it highly nice to hear on All Hallow’s Eve. Sounds as if someone’s trailing you as you walk the neighborhood in search of candy.
Once more, this morning I made some soup. It’s gonna a be good because soup’s good food whenever a nor’easter rolls through.
Today’s soup is called a Hearty Mushroom Soup. It’s main ingredients is mushrooms. The recipe calls for porcini and shiitake mushrooms. The porcini had to be steeped in the broth to rehydrate. After twenty minutes the broth took on a nice delicious brown color. The original recipe called for celery, but I didn’t want to have several stalks sitting in my fridge so I abandoned that for some potato. Along with that I sautéed onions, orange bell pepper, and garlic in butter. Then I dumped in the mushrooms before adding the broth and 1/4 cup of barley. Boy, do I love barley.
As you know I’m looking out for my salt intake, although I wanted this soup to taste better. So I cut the salt down by half to 1/8 teaspoon after adding soy sauce and a dash of tabasco. The soup is also creamy. The recipe called for half and half plus some thickening agent in 2 tablespoons of flour.
After simmering for about 10 minutes, it’s done. Garnish with some scallions.
Looks good. Tastes good.
I still need to learn how to chop things better. I left the potatoes and bell pepper pieces too big. I should’ve cut down more on the salt for my health and not for the taste especially I should’ve used less soy sauce. Now I need to make more soup stock. This time perhaps beef broth.
