What are you cooking tonight?

Nothing. Eating hospital food.

 

Dialysis would be my guess. Just a nice, relaxing stay attached to a machine and some of that excellent hospital food. And Jello. There's always room for Jello.

 

Nope. Having what's left of my left foot amputated. Still after rehab and whatnot, I should be able to walk better than before.

However, I have acquired a new appreciation for kosher food (the hospital's kosher menu is MUCH nicer than their regular menu).

 

Will you be getting an artificial foot?

 

Yup, that's the plan anyway.

 

Thank you!

It has all sorts, roast chicken, steak pie, meatballs, other stuff. I had to explain to them though that I'm not actually Jewish.

 

the mind reels

 

Best wishes for a fast recovery and other steps in the right direction. I'll keep the kosher tip in mind.

My daughter did just have a baby. they are right next to me as I write this. Dinner wasn't kosher, but my husband made King Ranch Chicken in honor of the new family of three. It's our daughter's favorite dish.

 

I've heard that's a good trick for getting better food on airlines as well. The general cabin food is all prepared years in advance and kept in steam trunks, but if you request kosher or vegetarian they make it just before the flight.

Unfortunately for me, Yahweh thinks that fish are fit for human consumption. I'm not going to say He's wrong, just that I might not be human.

 

If I had to be a pescatarian I wouldn't even be mad

 

So does Amaterasu, though.

 

You live in the Far East and don’t like fish? Now that’s unfortunate. If I lived there I’d look like a sushi roll by now!

 

Cooking the Thanksgiving turkey today cause that's how we like it. A nice sized one so it'll be at least four days with turkey soup on the last day. Forgot the can of cranberry jelly though but I'm the only one who likes it so not a total disaster.

 

The leftover turkey is almost the best part.

 

I was making mushroom pasta today.

 

I bought some maple syrup belly pork strips, so will be cutting them into chunks and blasting them in the oven to have with some Chinese style rice.

 

Tacos, maybe.

 

So I know I've kinda sworn off the Lounge except for a few threads, but...

Was feeling lazy tonight, and also sometimes I buy a jar of canned spaghetti sauce if it's a flavor variant that I haven't tried before just to give me some fuckit I was lazy so I bought premade stuff.

Some company called "Boticelli", and it was their "tomato and basil" flavored sauce.

Sauteed some onions, browned some minced beef, tossed in a can of button mushrooms, and dumped the sauce in and let everything get to know itself for a while.

Taste...

Holy Chef Boyardee Ketchup Flavor!!!!!!!!!

I mean, the best thing about this stuff was it was the same color as a baboon's ass and tasted half as good. Added some oyster sauce, Worchestershustershire sauce, garlic powder, habenero powder, and a metric fuckton of parmesan powdered cheese from a can and finally got it to something that Denny's might consider for the kids' menu.

Ugh.

 

Oven-baked chicken wings and rice pilaf. And yes, everything was absolutely out of a box because I'm lazy AF after all my cooking on Thanksgiving.

And the Christmas parties are around the corner. Double barbeque duty for me inbound!

 

Christmas dinner. Wish I had someone to share it with, but c'est la vie.
Bottom round beef roast marinaded in Cabernet Sauvignon and broth, with mashed potatoes with a marinade reduction for gravy, Brussels sprouts, carrots cooked down in honey and cloves, cranberry sauce made with fresh-squeezed orange juice, and Manzanilla olives.



Dessert will be chocolate and whipped cream Yule log. Started out with a glass of the wine I used for the marinade, but it tasted like dirt. Opened a bottle of a friend's homemade 4-grape wine instead.

 

Jesus, what a beautiful spread. I had some chicken tenders and a cup of ramen noodles.