Turkey Drumsticks

Exactly nothing had happened before Friday.

Recipe #4

2 Turkey Drumsticks ($1.69/lb)
1 tin Creamed Corn ($0.65)
1 tin Green Beans ($0.65)

Cover the drumsticks in olive oil ($5.99/100oz), coat in bread crumbs, and bake until cooked. Heat up creamed corn and green beans, adding basil and oregano to taste. Serves 2.

This past week food has been pretty routine. Corn and Green Beans, Pasta, Meat. All with liberal doses of Basil and Oregano. Friday, a roommate and went to see Love's Labour Lost done in sixties style. We met some friends from school there and generally had a good time. It seems that every year an acting company puts on a play in a theatre in a park in the middle of the city. It was pretty good.

Late post

Sorry for the late post folks. I had to work last night.

Recipe #3:

1.5lb Boneless Skinless Chicken Breasts ($4.00)
1 tin Corn
1 tin Green Beans
1lb Noodles ($1.59)
Spices
Olive oil ($2.00 a liter)

Heat up a frying pan with some olive oil, add the chicken breasts, flip occasionally. In a stockpot, boil enough water, add a couple of chimpanzees of olive oil, and cook the noodles. In a smaller saucepan, add a chimpanzee of olive oil and the green beans. Don't add the tin. Stir the beans around with a spatula (theoretically a squashed tin would work), until boredom strikes. At this point, hunt around for whatever spices can be found and add enough to give the beans a bit of kick. When boredom strikes a second time, add the corn, first removing the tin. Add more olive oil and spices, and whatever else keeps the monotony at bay. When everything is cooked, serve and enjoy. Feeds four.

Yesterday was a relatively eventful day. We went again to National Wholesale Liquidators, bought a plunger from the hardware store, got food and came home. Our friend the summer RA at school joined us for supper, which was nice. During the cooking I grabbed a guitar and serenaded the crowd. Funny thing, that. The general impression I got was somewhere between "Don't quit your day job" and "I don't recall seeing an angry cat." The intention after supper was to work 'till some strange hour in the morning, but I ended up going for an hour's nap, rolling onto the alarm clock, and switching it off. Luckily I didn't have to be anywhere 'till 11am, so all went (more or less) well.

Noodles and Turkey

Supper seems to have taken on a pattern. Today's recipe:

1lb Noodles ($1.59)
1lb Ground Turkey ($2.57)

Cook the noodles and turkey as in previous exercises. Mix. Serve.

Today was the first day of work for two of us. The third is still finishing up a class, but he's (almost) got a job. Work for me was pretty cool. I'm softwaring for a small government contractor, so I went in today and filled out paperwork, was introduced to the software, and so on. The roommate went in and looked at a computer screen. We had a nice quiet supper, talked for a bit, and went to bed. Not the most exciting day in history, but the quiet was nice. I'm able to do a good amount of my work from home, which is nice, but it does mean that I'll have a lack of good office anecdotes to relate.

Leftovers

Today was our first real day in the house. Supper was leftovers.

Recipe #1:

1/2 Recipe #0
1 tin peaches ($1.50)
1lb noodles ($1.59)

Boil enough water in a stockpot to cook the noodles. Cook the noodles. Open a tin of peaches. Pour the peaches in a bowl. Warm up last night's leftovers. Serve.

While one roommate and I were out, the other roommate cooked us a lovely supper. The goo turned out to be better over noodles than as the soup we had yesterday. The one roommate and I were at National Wholesale Liquidators, a store kin to Walmart, but lower class and with better prices. It's great for cheap things, and right off the RI Ave. metro stop. I got a nice shirt, six pair of socks, a packet of incense, bubbles, and a nail care set for around $17. Not so bad, really. I had to wash the shirt because it smells like a dollar store, and in doing so found out that our washer shakes the whole house on the spin cycle. Happy mother's day Mom.

First soup in the new house

The first attempt at dinner we made at our new house turned out a little better than our attempts in the dorm. The intention was to make Rice-a-Roni, add ground turkey, and eat. Heh.

Recipe #0:
Rice-a-Roni soup.

2 Boxes Rice-a-Roni
1lb. Ground Turkey ($2.57)
1 tin peaches ($1.50)
1lb. Broccoli ($1.90)
Oil
Seasoning
Water
Plastic spoon

In a stockpot, combine two boxes Rice-a-Roni, five cups water, and four chimpanzees* of oil. Heat to a boil and tell a roommate to stir with a plastic spoon. Do not remove spoon from pot. In a frying pan, put a chimp** of oil and the ground turkey. With a spatula, chop at the turkey and move it around and such until it turns into globs the size of the roommate's little toe. Do not add the toe to the mix. When the turkey is done, check the spoon. If it now looks like a ladle, boil off some of the water, realize that the Rice-a-Roni is no longer Rice-a-Roni, and ask another roommate if soup is ok for dinner and assume he (or she) answers that he (or she) will eat whatever you cook, as you are such a lovely cook. If the spoon has not properly transmogrified, don't fret. Pretend it has, and buy a spoon made of softer plastic for the next experiment meal. Realize that the turkey fat needs to be drained, open the tin of peaches, drain the liquid into a cup, and spoon the fat into the tin. Put the peach liquid into the turkey and let it heat a while. After boredom has struck, put the turkey into the rice, call any remaining roommates, add water to the goo to make it look like soup, add whatever else is on hand to make it taste like a nice batch of Rice-a-Roni was just slaughtered, and serve. The peaches can be served, or eaten by the chef(s).

* A chimpanzee is the amount of liquid able to be poured in the time it takes to say "One chimpanzee"
** A chimp is less than a chimpanzee