Dessert????

Scramble some eggs...with a ton of brown sugar and about a half a stick of butter and a binch of ground up pistachio nuts! It tastes sort of like bread pudding. AMAZING.

MEAT

Ok, that spaghetti squash and red sauce gave me food poisoning i think. But it did taste good.

This time, keeping it simple:

Deer backstrap
Fingerling potatoes
Onion
Garlic
Olive Oil
Salt
Pepper
Rosemary

Put it in a dish. Roast. Eat. mmmm....

We're back, with Spaghetti Squash!

Ok, so I've been cooking stuff here and there but haven't been posting Apologies to all my diehard fans out there!

Here's tonight's dinner:

Spaghetti squash
Water
Olive oil
Onion
Garlic
Tomato sauce
Garlic powder
Salt
Pepper
Red chilies
Mozzarella Cheese

Cut that squash! Put on a pan with water in the oven for a bit. While that's going, make my Aunt Val's tomato sauce. Sorry! No recipe! But those are the ingredients. Do your best. Scrape that squash and really it does look and kinda taste like real pasta. Sweet! Then, shave some mozzarella over the top. Delicious.

(sigh...no good mozzarella in South Dakota...)

MASSIVE FAIL

Mmmm...the smell of fresh baked cookies. OR THE SMELL OF BURNED POO.

Chocolate chips
Flour
Brown sugar
2 eggs
Salt
Oil

I attempted to make classic chocolate chip cookies using the recipe on the bag of chocolate chips. However, I did not have butter, vanilla, white sugar, or baking powder, nor did I measure anything. I substituted oil for butter, which didn't really work. The cookies did not flatten out at all. They got super burned on the bottom. Basically, they look like burned macaroons. Which might be a success, because they taste a lot like macaroons sans coconut. Actually, that does not mean I succeeded. It just means that macaroons suck.

Really basic stew

1 can mushroom soup
Water
Potatoes
Onion
Celery
Carrots
Garlic
Salt
Pepper
Plenty of rosemary
Cumin
Cayenne
Thyme I think
Goat or gorg. cheese

Put it all in a pot, stew it up! Pretty simple, ended up delicious if a little boring.

Beer Cheese Soup--all on my own

Ok, fans, so I made three things recently, to mixed success. Here's the first, made on Saturday night.

Cheese (cheddar, gorgonzola, swiss, goat)
Chicken Broth
Negro Medelo
Onions
Carrots
Celery
Flour
Worcester
Salt
Pepper
Cumin
Oil

I made the meer pois, then I put WAY too much chicken broth in, followed by the rest, so it was absurdly runny, so I just added a ton of cheese and flour. It kind of sucked. But not that bad. As leftovers, excellent however. Somehow it thickened over time. I still need Hillary, clearly.

No Name Pasta Salad

Brooke wouldn't come up with a name for this delicious pasta experiment:

Tri-color Rigatoni
Bell peppers
Onion
Portabello
Thin asparagus
Olive oil
Salt
Pepper
Parmesan
Water
Cinnamon Sugar
Parsley
Sun-dried tomatoes
Garlic

Boil water. Put in pasta. When almost done, put in chopped asparagus. Stir fry diced onion, garlic, mushroom, bell pepper and sun dried tomatoes with salt and pepper. Simmer parsley and cinnamon sugar (use a lot) with olive oil. It's supposed to be a tarragon substitute because tarragon was part of the recipe that I found, although that recipe was actually for a goat cheese-asparagus-lemon pasta that in no way resembles this. I don't know what tarragon tastes like but the parsley-cinnamon sugar thing (actually it's supposed to be just regular cinnamon I think) tasted pretty good actually. I'd use it again I suppose. Anyways, drain the pasta/asparagus, pour in veggies and parsley/cinnamon sugar and add a bunch of olive oil, salt pepper to taste, and grate that parm. It works I guess. But Brooke refused to name it.