I ditched the gym tonight.

I came home and have been relaxing. Cooking too.

I making a ginger beef concoction. Onion, garlic, and ginger are minced or chopped and tossed into the pan with some olive oil and chili flakes. Add to that some broccoli, beef chunks/cubes, and some soy sauce. Let it cook, let the flavors mingle while the brown rice cooks.

Cross your fingers, it's a 'general-idea-no-real-recipe' type meal.

Cap'n Obvious

Cabernet Sauvignon does not go so well with a de-constructed sushi bowl.

White Knuckles

I've been pretty industrious today.

I went to the gym, did some laundry, started making breakfast sausages, took a nap, went to my hockey game (my line had 0 points, go us!), went to dinner with my dad and long time friend Stevie G, and came home. Once home, I finished making the breakfast sausages (I doubled the recipe and ended up w/ 19 patties) and made my lunch for tomorrow. 

If I don't fall asleep quickly tonight, I'm gonna be upset. 

Fud.

Tonight's kitchen experiment will be baked chicken.

I don't want to use a flavored marinade because I will be doing my damned-est to make these pieces into as many dishes as possible. I figure baking it in a 'marinade' of olive oil and minced garlic should be enough to give it some flavor, but not so much that it will overpower whatever I turn the leftovers into. 

 I'm trying to avoid the grocery store this week. I know have enough in my pantry to make it to payday. It's time to learn creativity. 

EDIT/ADDENDUM: 

The bird seems to have done well in the oven. I think I was a bit heavy handed with the garlic. 

...

Nah, you can never have too much garlic. Wood taught me that.

Dinner at 10pm

This is not a good idea. 

I cooked some rice, edamame, opened up a can of tuna and the bottle of ponzu sauce that's been sitting in my pantry since I moved in and ta-da! Dinner.

The best part is, besides it being a fairly decent off the cuff concoction, I've been learning how to cook smaller portions so fewer leftovers!

It's a good thing I went to blockbuster tonight. At least I have something (hopefully) interesting to watch while my dinner settles.  

Cooking to kill time.

I'm attempting another Sunday night cooking-to-kill-time meal. 

Tonight's experiment:

Garlic quinoa with garlic and chardonnay chicken. 

It's a good thing I like garlic. And that I'm single. That's quite alot of garlic going on in that meal.

Dinner tonight:

Quinoa mixed with lemon juice, dried cranberries, and mandarin oranges. Yummy. Oh yeah, and a beer.

I'm on the prowl for more recipes for quinoa.

EDIT:
I found and made a recipe using black beans as a major ingredient. It tastes like a chili. Yummy! I have lunch for tomorrow and have found a cheap side (or main) dish to add to my r'epertoire. Hooray for healthy food!

ARG!

I think I may have had a hand in killing the oven on Thanksgiving.

Apparently tin foil is not a friend of the heating element in the oven. Especially when the element is working. My job on turkey day was to check on the bird and ensure that it was heating up to the appropriate temperature. I think that it's very possible that during one of the temperature checks I may have lifted the tin foil an eensy bit too high. Long story short: yes, we have no oven (that works). This is frustrating to me because one of the few domestic things I enjoy doing is baking. It's sorta hard to bake without an oven.

In other news, I hope this letter I'm planning on sending out sometime next week doesn't screw me over. I was taught that almost everything is negotiable. Hopefully this is one of them and by my asking to negotiate it won't leave a proverbial sour taste in anyones proverbial mouth.

Domesticity.

That's what I should have named this blog.

Today's adventure will be the making of Baklava Bars. We'll see how this one goes since the grocery store didn't have any mini-phyllo shells, only the entire sheets. Hopefully it will work out okay and I can give some to my dad tonight when he comes to my hockey game.