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.

[8ullfrog]

I think they mocked her in Gremlins 2.

Tonight, we had Mac-a-Roni, a white cheddar mac and cheese from the Rice-a-Roni people.

The electric stove pretty much burned off the cheese sauce, so I shredded some cheddar, hit the noodles with black pepper, and stirred.
It was okay. Probably wouldn't buy it again, but it wasn't garbage.

"Roni" is in my browser's word dictionary. Weird.

[6pairsofshoes]

Those mac n cheese packages are very popular.  We have used Annie's and even Safeway's.  Both are pretty tasty.  We use half and half in place of milk and generally a side of cooked (frozen) peas with them.  It's been years since we had any.  I ended up giving ours away since the little packages of cheese in the box won't last forever.

I'm having tea and scones.  No end to the excitement here.
p.s. I've never seen the Gremlins movies.  But I'm happy that the microcrisp lady got some air time in one.  I suspect she got paid for it.  That ought to keep her "family of snackers" in nail polish for a while.

Lunch:  turkey sandwich on nice Walnut Levain bread with dijon mustard, mayo and heirloom tomatoes.  Time to go hit up the Grocery Outlet wine sale as it's going to be a long 4 years...

This afternoon I chopped up some leftover Halloween candy and made choc chunk cookies and took them over to the neighbors who were greatly amused and happy to see them.

[8ullfrog]

One thing I liked about the Roni was that it used the powder packet, a lot of them use those oily cheese foil packs, and I'm not a fan. I know you can buy cheese powder standalone, but the Roni was nice. Only problem is my electric stove ruins it.

We did leftover burritos today, and mom asked me how to do the folding trick. It's not hard, but she still acts like it's a magic trick.

[6pairsofshoes]

One thing I liked about the Roni was that it used the powder packet, a lot of them use those oily cheese foil packs, and I'm not a fan. I know you can buy cheese powder standalone, but the Roni was nice. Only problem is my electric stove ruins it.

We did leftover burritos today, and mom asked me how to do the folding trick. It's not hard, but she still acts like it's a magic trick.

We haven't made burritos at home, but often make quesadillas, heating tortillas then with some warm black beans, grated cheese, hot sauce, and toppings like tomato chunks, sliced scallions and cilantro.  I routinely make a mighty mess with them, as I do a crap job of folding, probably exacerbated by overfilling.  It messes up the pan as we heat them before consuming.  My husband's are always neat and perfectly folded.  I don't mind making a mess so long as they taste good.

[8ullfrog]

This guy is kind of bad at it, but this is the trick:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/xEF9u6K0WBc

The tuck and the roll are vital. Also, you want to put less in the tortilla than you think. You're hungry, it's excusable.

[6pairsofshoes]

Thanks.  That's good to know.  Usually I go out for burritos, but there's no real reason we can't make them at home.
Drinking tea and getting ready to put a scone in the oven.  I'm up too early, but I might as well roll with it.

[6pairsofshoes]

Earl Grey tea and a cream scone with quince jelly and super bitter seville orange marmalade.  The marmalade is main and the quince is pudding.