home cookin'

Those of you who know me know that I spend approximately the GDP of Africa on dining out.

I don't consider myself to be very good at cooking. However, for an adventure, I made this cake and it turned out really well.

Now I want to cook real meals. I'm interested in what sorts of things people here cook for themselves. We're all busy, so what are the easy staples you guys make for after you've worked your ass off earning a paycheck?

I just got back from the grocery store, and I have this idea of doing some sort of coconut almond chicken thing with asparagus and beans, but I don't actually know what I'm doing, so I could use some other suggestions!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Thanks RR. That sounds pretty doable. My chicken thing came out pretty surprisingly good. I did not have as much as I thought, so I wound up layering the chicken breasts with the coconut almond thing in between. The chicken is delicious, or novel, at least one of those, and it goes well with canned beans or frozen vegetables. I've made it two days(!) on homecooked meals.

Stop Sign, do you use any meat in that aside from chicken broth? It sounds like it's entirely carbs and fiber.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

What sorts of things do you folks put into slow cookers?

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I don't actually wash anything. I just eat it. I haven't gotten sick once that was attributable to any washable toxins!

:cancer tomorrow:

Oh hey, and an update. I made jalapeno popper stuffed chicken breasts last week and they were delicious. It was really cool. I just bought pre-sliced chicken cutlets, mixed cream cheese, pre-crumbled bacon, diced jalapeno and mexican cheese together and smeared that shit all up in the chicken. Then rolled those suckers up, dipped them in olive oil + lime juice, breaded them and baked them.

I left the jalapeno seeds in, so they tasted like delicious fire.

Q, I was going to make your carbonara but at the time I thought I was dating a Jewish man. It turns out we were not dating, so I will have to make your dish now, because it looked delicious.

(I think the tenses in that last sentence are fine...)

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?