When some people get depressed, they drink, break shit or sleep with their best friends boyfriend/girlfriend, cry - whatever. What happens when I get depressed?
I bake and/or cook!
I know what you're thinking; sweet! I wanna make you mad then we can have make-up/break-up smex and you can make me awesometastic food!
Yeah, screw you. Not happening.
Essentially since I've moved to this tiny town there isn't a whole hell of a lot to do however I do play music on Tuesdays at the pub up the road and wander aimlessly. Tuesday jam nights are fuckin' awesome. If you ever find yourself stranded in Brandon, Manitoba with an instrument on a Tuesday at 10pm I suggest you take a wander to jam night. You can get obliterated on cheap pints and eat greasy wings and listen to AWESOME MUSIC. Holy, fuck.
I've been spending a ton of time in the grocery store because I've been spending a ton of time watching the food network and I've been stealing their ideas and implementing poor university student twists to them.
The meal I made yesterday was fuckin' awesome. It consisted of homemade baked crispy spicy-as-fawk chicken breasts, brown rice and corn and spices. It literally costs about 7$ to make a MASSIVE plate of this stuff which would run you 25$ in a restaurant. It takes about 20-25 minutes depending on what you have your oven set at and how ghetto your appliances are. I had mine at 350 and the oven isn't a total piece of shit.
I had leftovers of rice so I just wrapped it up in the fridge for tonight.
Lookie! Dish 1:
Tonight, I realized I cooked all the good food and all I was stuck with was the gross frozen pizza in my back of my freezer, the beef sausage left in the freezer, leftover rice + corn and steak that I wasn't gonna use tonight.
First I was gonna make this one sausage and some leftover rice then I got to thinking. The sausage took super long to cook and I kept having to cut it to make sure it was cooked throughly and in turn the thing wouldn't stay in the bread so what I did was slice the hell out of the sausage, make sure it was all cooked though, then put the already cooked rice in the pan with the pieces and made sausage fried rice and corn with tons of pepper because I lack in the soy sauce department.
Thereafter it looked pretty plain and dry so I found my ketchup and in turn the cheapest condiment in the world made this usual dry and gross dish fricken' tasty and appealing to the eye.
Dish # 2
Oh geeze..yes it certainly has that poor university twist to it!
ReplyDeleteI have a ton of recipes from when I was below the poverty line as well. LOTS of casseroles. I heart casseroles though and never get to make them cuz the other half is extremely fucking picky.
Hey! Those dishes tasted awesome!
ReplyDeleteYeah, cassarole is awesome because you can make any kind of cassarole as long as you have either pasta, some kinda meat and veggies.
Boourns on picky eater guy! I know a good cassarole recepie even picky eaters like though!
Macaroni, cream of chicken (or mushroom) sauce, hamburger (Med. ground beef) and corn or peas (I use corn). Cook everything separate then just layer the pasta + sauce + hamburger with corn mixed in with it. If you dig onions and peppers feel free to huck them in too. Add pepper and maybe a little bit of paprika if you like setting your tastebuds on fire for a few. :P
If you like cheese, put shredded cheese (not much, half a handfull at most) in the noodles to give it a gooey appearance