I smell BACON!
Feb. 18th, 2007 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
weaselmomWe actually achieved bacon this morning! AND eggs! It was a bit of an uphill battle during which we again proved the old adage that partners should never try to teach each other how to do something. We usually end up having a frank exchange of opinions in which Things Are Said and Later Retracted. Actually, S ended up cooking the bacon because I was fully occupied with the whole scrambled eggs and diced red peppers thing. I did try to watch what he did for next time, but it seems to me that cooking bacon falls under that heading of "men grill the meat." Everything turned out just fine, but good grief, what a mess! Will somebody please remind me why I'm purchasing ingredients and dirtying half the dishes in the house and squabbling with S when I could just throw on some clothes and drive to Shari's or Denny's?
Tonight Two Mustard Chicken made another appearance due to popular demand. This time I used the full amount of honey (1/4 C) for 4 chicken breasts instead of halving it like last time. Also, I didn't trim off every speck of fat this time, so the meat was moister than last time. It turned out really good, and that's not just me saying so! I had just found a recipe for steamed asparagus and red bell pepper, so I got some lovely veggies from Yuppie Mart (where I paid, brace yourselves, $7.99 for two organic, free range, college educated, Lexus-driving chicken breast halves). I carefully timed all the prep work so the veggies would be done at the same time as the chicken, so imagine my dismay when I learned that my (yes, trimmed) asparagus spears did NOT fit in the steamer basket. (I know you can buy special asparagus steaming gizmos, but I am not *that* committed to leading an asparagus-intensive lifestyle.) So I had to jam them in there every which way, and then realized I had forgotten to put the bell pepper strips in first, so they just sort of crowd-surfed on top of the asparagus and didn't really steam properly. But they tasted okay, even though this was really a recipe for 4 servings, so we will pee orange for a week.
We did a little geocaching Saturday, despite my having a really astonishingly sore neck (either horked it up at the gym or slept funny). We had a list of 15 caches in the general north Seattle area and found 9 of them. One DNF probably had been muggled, another was surrounded by scum and villainy, and we didn't have time for the rest as the weather went totally sideways - huge wind, cold and dark, and then the rain. I don't really care for urban geocaching because you have to be too stealthy and the vistas (a parking lot behind the old Sears store? meh...) are less than inspiring. But we didn't have much time to travel to a farther, more interesting location, and I didn't want to be up a trail somewhere and have my neck decide no, no thank you.
What have you all been up to?
Tonight Two Mustard Chicken made another appearance due to popular demand. This time I used the full amount of honey (1/4 C) for 4 chicken breasts instead of halving it like last time. Also, I didn't trim off every speck of fat this time, so the meat was moister than last time. It turned out really good, and that's not just me saying so! I had just found a recipe for steamed asparagus and red bell pepper, so I got some lovely veggies from Yuppie Mart (where I paid, brace yourselves, $7.99 for two organic, free range, college educated, Lexus-driving chicken breast halves). I carefully timed all the prep work so the veggies would be done at the same time as the chicken, so imagine my dismay when I learned that my (yes, trimmed) asparagus spears did NOT fit in the steamer basket. (I know you can buy special asparagus steaming gizmos, but I am not *that* committed to leading an asparagus-intensive lifestyle.) So I had to jam them in there every which way, and then realized I had forgotten to put the bell pepper strips in first, so they just sort of crowd-surfed on top of the asparagus and didn't really steam properly. But they tasted okay, even though this was really a recipe for 4 servings, so we will pee orange for a week.
We did a little geocaching Saturday, despite my having a really astonishingly sore neck (either horked it up at the gym or slept funny). We had a list of 15 caches in the general north Seattle area and found 9 of them. One DNF probably had been muggled, another was surrounded by scum and villainy, and we didn't have time for the rest as the weather went totally sideways - huge wind, cold and dark, and then the rain. I don't really care for urban geocaching because you have to be too stealthy and the vistas (a parking lot behind the old Sears store? meh...) are less than inspiring. But we didn't have much time to travel to a farther, more interesting location, and I didn't want to be up a trail somewhere and have my neck decide no, no thank you.
What have you all been up to?
