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Thoughts for awhile

April 13, 2008 Food No comments

It has been awhile since I’ve written.  I’ve picked up some things, and tried some things.

I have a stir fry sauce that works quite nice in a stir fry.  No surprise there.  Just adds a nice traditional flavor to it.

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Lemongrass Beef

April 3, 2008 Food No comments , , ,

Previously playing with lemongrass chicken, I was curious about how something else would go.  I’ve got three types of frozen meat in my freezer – chicken, beef, and salmon.  Some day I might add some pork to the freezer bags… but anyways…

Chicken is nice for this because it doesn’t have much flavor.  There is no conflict of flavor in there.  Beef on the other hand has its own flavor.  This is often a good thing, and in the lemongrass beef, it wasn’t a bad thing.  But it wasn’t a particularly good thing either.

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Chicken Ideas

March 21, 2008 Food No comments ,

I was going to go for a pizza chicken packet that I’ve read about.  The idea was chicken, pizza sauce, mozzarella cheese, pepperoni, onions, peppers in a packet.  I was getting the things together and pulled out the pizza sauce.  I opened it up, and there was something that wasn’t pizza sauce on the top of it.  It might be possible to remove it and go from there, but I’ve got this ingrained idea of food back when I worked at a Boy Scout camp.  The commissary rule was “If in doubt, throw it out.”

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First Thoughts

February 6, 2008 Food No comments

There are a few things about cooking for a group that don’t work well for one.  Portions, recipes, prep time, and cleanup…

The portions one finds at a supermarket tend to be much larger than a single person can eat in a reasonable time.  A bag of tortillas is 30 pieces. There are no 5 or 10 bags – enough for a week or two.  Salmon fillets are measured in pounds (from what I understand 4-6 oz is one serving).  Just too much food at a time.  On the flip side, smaller amounts means more packaging and less green.

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