If you go waaaaaaaaaay back and read my very first post, I said I would talk about my cooking and eating mishaps.
And I don’t think I ever got around to it.
Well, now’s as good a time as ever.
First up, the story of the carbon hot dogs.
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I work from home, as does my roommate.
I am currently on a project that is just kicking my ass left and right, nothing really difficult, just very time consuming – 15-hour days time-consuming. (I’ve only gotten to raid one night this week and I doubt I’ll get to do much of anything this weekend.)
So around 3 the other day I finally had a break between meetings and decided I should at least partake in lunch since I had forgone breakfast.
I find a pair of hot dogs in the fridge and toss them in a pot to boil.
And the phone rings.
It’s my manager.
Would I be able to make some changes to the spreadsheet?
One thing leads to another.
It’s past 3:30 now.
*sniff*
*sniff*
Just as the thought crosses my mind that something doesn’t seem right, my roommate pipes up from her room.
“Is something burning?!?!?!”
OMG.
The hot dogs.
Run to the kitchen.
Yep, carbonized hot dogs.
Suckers smoke for quite some time even after you take them off heat.
I had another meeting.
No lunch for me.
/sad panda
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But I redeemed myself last night!
A while ago I ordered a copy of…
The Original and Strictly Unofficial Tauren Chef Cookbook.
Yeah, I’m a geek.
Anyway, page 126 has a delightful little recipe for roasted quail.
Being fresh out of quail (and the buggers are too small for my tastes anyway), the recipe suggests using Cornish game hens.
I won’t give away the recipe, but I will say that I have never applied cherry preserves to poultry before.
And the results were excellent!
This weekend I’m attempting Dry Pork Ribs.
and people wonder why we make sure the FD is on call and aware when you cook. And yes if I had the ability to I would also mobilize the National Guard and a Haz-mat team.
At least you weren’t the one sitting at his computer trying to do dailies through a film of smoke.
I shudder to think what you are going to use for murloc eyes when you attempt to make Westfall Stew.
It calls for black olives if you can’t gather enough eyes.
There are *never* enough eyes to be gathered in the first place.