"I cut myself on the chili powder": Reason #17 John is not allowed in the kitchen unsupervised.

Tuesday is work-from-home day, which means cooking day! I have completed dinner things!

I am, for the record, a competent-but-lazy cook, not a good cook. Good cooks have patience and drive, whereas I like good food but prefer EASY food to GREAT food. So my recipes are all lazy: if I can use a can of something, I generally will. If I can throw it all in a crock-pot and not have to supervise? Awesome.

First, we have ( Slow-Cooker Pineapple Chili )

Then we have cosmiccat's patented ( spaghetti sauce recipe )

That's dinner, simmering away now. For lunch, I had ( my 'Everything Is Better With A' ham sandwich )

This evening, I'll cook some spaghetti and dinner will be the two main dishes over spaghetti with a bottle of red wine. For an appetizer, ( John's Classic Custom Escargot )

with the leftover crusty bread from lunch.

(Right about now, I can hear a few people thinking "wait, doesn't John live with just one other person? No kids? Isn't that a TON of food?". That is because I am psychic. BOW DOWN BEFORE YOUR MAGNIFICENT MIND-TAKING OVERLORD! But yes, you are correct, this is way more food than even 6 people could eat at one dinner. That's intentional: With the exception of the escargot, all of this stuff refrigerates well, freezes well, and travels well. This is not just "dinner", this is "a variety of work-lunch and lazy-meal options for two people for the next good long while")

And now, I'm going back to work with an awesome movie running in the second screen - it has Tyrion Lannister, Mall Cop! [2]


[1]: For the wits currently thinking[3] "Celery? Why wouldn't I just drink a glass of water while swallowing string?" - well, because then you wouldn't have used up the celery and it would still be in your fridge mocking you. Didn't think of THAT, did you, smart guy?

[2]: Seriously. Four years before HBO got to it, Jordan Prentice is playing Tyrion Lannister, Mall Cop. Morningstar and all!

[3]: See also I CAN READ YOUR BRAIN-MEATS WORSHIP MEEEEEEE

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Washington dragged kicking and screaming into the Century of the Fruitbat.

(And yes, people who know their Pratchett also know that the Century of the Fruitbat was last century. And yes, that's intentional.)

Things to make your Wednesday better:

Bad Joke Thread, still going strong, even if it's just been me and thornae for the last few days.

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