Topic: What are you eating / What did you eat.

[8ullfrog]

Ziti. It was fantastic. Bathroom sink popped.
I want to cry.

[6pairsofshoes]

Do you mean that the fixture separated from the wall or was it the plumbing connections?  New houses (even used new houses) always end up requiring more repairs that one originally expects.  At least it's less crime ridden, right?

Glad the ziti was good.

Maple walnut muffins.  For breakfast.  Lovely.  I added dates and walnuts to them.

[8ullfrog]

The Ziti was weirdly fantastic for a nuke-a-meal.

[8ullfrog]

So the ziti I got the other day was cheese only.

I was going to try out the meat version, but it turns out it was double the price per ounce compared to the large version.

So I bought a family size Ziti. Needless to say, leftovers.

One very simple unimpressive leftover mix was Ziti + shredded cheese + Mexi-pep hot sauce.

I liked it better than the straight up ziti. It was spicy, it was vital, I think noodles are going to be the master plan for fall.

Still nuke-a-meals, I have to replace the stove vent fan, it fell off the spindle. From the time I did have with the electric stove, it honestly did a hell of a job, I got more Maillard reaction out of the meat than I did on the shitty apartment stove.

I'm honestly sad to be sidelined. I initally thought everything off the electric stove would be watery and gross. Boy was I wrong.

[6pairsofshoes]

Lemon yogurt muffin.  Good.  I prefer to add nuts.  My husband requested poppy seeds instead.  It's nice, like a light lemon cake.  I froze half of them.

[8ullfrog]

Canned white chili.
Castleberry's Adobe Lime White Chicken Chili to be exact.
It's good, and most of the ingredients aren't science experiments.

I'd never heard of Castleberry before, but I like their hot dog chili sauce because buying it means I don't have to make it. With the exhaust fan out of commission I'm going to be eating a lot of microwave soup. But it's fall, so that's okay.

There's always the foreman and my instant pot I suppose.

[8ullfrog]

I was watching Sam the cooking guy videos, and two years ago he made toaster oven pizza:

So I decided, hey, he used a tortilla, why don't I just make tacos in that thing?

So I did. Status report: They were crispy and delicious. One downside of microwave tacos is the tortilla gets chewy. In a toaster oven, that is not so.

About the only downside of this is the cook time, a 30 second microwave taco takes about 3 minutes at 400f.

But I don't think I'll be going back to the nuka-wave.

[6pairsofshoes]

There used to be this demented woman who starred in informercials for MicroCrisp.  This product was some kind of paper that one wrapped around food in a microwave that allegedly caused it to be crisp when cooked.  Of course, you'll need to get 5 microwaves and paint your nails for the full effect. 

p.s. The comments are even better than the video.