Domestic Nemesis

Did I ever post how I got really mad at my wok a few weeks back and I just threw it away. Yep, I just tossed it in the garbage, it was making me so angry because I think I had disturbed the integrity in the pan when I accidentally left the stove on for like 30 minutes after KT and I made popcorn. Anyway, now I don't have large frying pan. Sorry, I digress, back to the chocolate cake I made yesterday. Here is a picture of how the batter looked when I put it in the cake pan...obviously...something was wrong As you can see, the batter is like REALLY lumpy and doesn't really fit in the pan. I was like, WTF dude? WELL did you know that you have to add WATER to the batter?? YES it is true :) No wonder it was so hard to stir. After looking at the picture directions on the box for the like 4th time, I saw 1 1/3 cup water. Ridiculous. Here is how the batter looked eventually, yes I know, still a little lumpy, I still don't have a mixer. Now worries though, it turned out g...

So I fried up some chopped zucchini, yellow squash, and onions in a pan and boiled some pasta in a pot. After that was cooked, I put it all in a bowl with some jalepeno cheese, butter, and garlic salt. It tasted so bland I added that marinade that I had put on the samlon patties. Ewww. it was so bad I almost died, but I still ate the whole bowl because I was hungry. I need to marry a chef prontisimo. Ms. Non-Sequitur

I'm so happy today! I hope you are too! :) I love waking up early on the weekends! I can't believe I'm saying this, but it is almost worth not going out at night just so I can wake up refreshed and without a headache. This sun is shining in my apt and I'm eating some pumpkin bread from the farmers market and drinking my coffee without milk (and THAT isn't even getting me down) Since the milk always goes bad, I might as well train myself to live without it :) I'm going on the Wisconsin river this afternoon with a new friend from my Spanish class, she's going be a nurse and she's a total hoot! Can't wait to work on the tan! Now a few pictures with descriptions of the fabulous hamburger-potato-Indian spiced patties we made on Friday night. Who needs a potato masher when you can use a mug! It has a handle and everything! Who needs bread crumbs when you can use tortilla chips! Tres Genius! Ick, mushing the crap together with my hand...it was hot--we h...

Who buys salmon patties anyway? They are fricking ridiculous. Well, I was at TJ's and they had these tasters things of salmon patty on crackers and I was like, "I can cook that" WRONG. :) The package gave the directions and said nothing about de-thawing...so what do I do? De-thaw them. Fish patty is not like fish chunk, or however fish usually comes, fillet? that's it, fillet. It is like fish all chopped up and then mushed together in a patty. It is also not like steak. For some reason, I thought I had to soak the patties in sauce, like everyone else does when they cook things, they let it soak up like seasoning juice crap. So I soaked them in like some over-the-counter-seasoning juice. That was dumb because-- well I'm not sure why. I baked the patties in the oven instead of frying them on a pan in tin foil in the juice stuff. Well, it is so hard to know when fish is done- I know, the flake thing, but I haven't cooked fish in like a year and I'v...