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by gansie

Sandwich Making Time

80P is in serious finals mode. I think he has something like writing four papers in four days. While I can’t help his regression model, or something like that, I can for sure buy him some studying food. What’s easier to eat than a sandwich while compiling a literature review?

And I swear, I was sandwichin‘ before I saw the WaPo’s ode to this fine invention.

But, I have to say, I surely haven’t been eating sandwiches like I used to. I don’t usually follow trends (fine, I wear skinny jeans and my leggings have stirrups) but the no-carb phenom forced me to reconsider my pasta and bagel habits. Not that I ever gave them up completely, but the monitoring was there. And I tried to ingest only whole wheat ones at that. But at Monday night’s Bestway, a desolated bread aisle was found and I had to choose either buttermilk flavored Wonderbread or six inch sub rolls…

So with my sub rolls and a few fillings back in the fridge it was sandwich makin’ time.

by Allyson

Friday Fuck Ups: The Quiche That Wasn’t

ed. note — please give a big ES welcome to our newest contributor, Allyson, who graces us this week with her finest fuck-up. Although I must say, I actually want to eat this one, unlike some other FFUs of the past. (I’m looking at you, fried guac balls.)

My husband and I are moving this weekend, so our cooking goals for the week involved shopping as little as possible and using up everything that’s slightly old but still edible. We’re going to keep the things we’ve bought in bulk, but we just don’t want to transport our entire kitchen so we’ve been focusing on working with what we have in order to reduce both the amount of stuff we have to move, and potential waste when we have to throw things away.

On Sunday night, I decided to do something to get rid of the frozen pie crust that had been sitting in our fridge for longer than we could remember. Rather than attempt a pie (I have a bad track record with baked desserts), I decided to try a quiche. Nevermind that I had only made one quiche in my entire life and had long-since lost the recipe. Nevermind that the only cheese we had on hand was sliced pepperjack. I could do it.

Or could I…

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by tvff

The Name Says Purgatory, But it Tastes Like Heaven

A couple of weeks back, I mentioned (much to my chagrin) that I had recently used a jar of store-bought tomato sauce. In the interest of full disclosure, it was Wegman’s Food You Feel Good About Four Cheese Pasta Sauce, which isn’t too bad as far as these things go.

The point of that post was that I had a foolproof recipe for a super-quick marinara sauce. There was one night, however, that I was going to be eating alone and I had absolutely no interest in putting any effort into cooking; making even the marinara recipe seem like a chore. So rather than swing by the local fast food establishment, I grabbed a crusty roll on the way home, broke out the jar of sauce and whipped up what may be one of the tastiest simple meals that a trained chimp or lazy home cook can prepare in ten minutes or less.

Behold, in all it’s glory, Eggs in Purgatory.

How simple is it? Well, even if you go to the trouble of making the sauce from scratch, you’re still talking about a meal ready in under 15 minutes. And if you have some store-bought or pre-made sitting in the fridge, you’ll be eating in no time.

Let’s roll up our sleeves, shall we?

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by gansie

Obligatory Endless Eggness

Fried egg over acorn squash, spinach, and lentils and rice from Mama Ayesha’s. And a hint of harissa.

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by gansie

When Leftovers Taste Fishy

Last week I made two dishes that I did not blog about. One was this curry dish that was really good, but not all that blog worthy because of all the store bought ingredients. I sauteed some onions, added in a Penang curry paste, coconut milk, chicken (poached in the liquid) and roasted delicata squash—served over brown basmati rice.

Dish two: spaghetti squash** and baked sweet potato chunks with a cream sauce.

**RIP
Spaghetti Squash
Dec 2008—Jan 2009

We had one mighty fantastic meal, but now, it must end. It’s over. I can’t deal with baking something that small for TWO FUCKING HOURS and then when I’m done, taking another 15 minutes to scrape the clingy pulp and seeds out AND THEN continue to scrape until tiny strands pry loose. And I mean PRY. Even after two hours you wouldn’t let go over your insides. And, I’ve had it. I cannot be wasting precious after work time worrying about an effing squash. So, I’m done. At least until I can convince 80P to take over cooking duties. Don’t wait up for it.

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by gansie

Hello, My Name is Gansie, and I’m a Tupperware-aholic

I’m not even kidding. That above is my tupperware cabinet. So not only am I terribly disorganized with my tupperware, but I have enough to fill an entire cabinet. Tupperware is definitely a learned addiction in my family.

At any given point, DAD GANSIE will have at the very least, six old sour cream containers that are guaranteed not to be filled with the intended substance. I’m serious. The man saves anything plastic. And then saves anything to put in that plastic. My family has 3 1/2 fridges, for 3 people, just to give you an idea of how much plastic is needed to fill all of that chilled space.

And, now, as an adult with my own place, and even after I swore I wouldn’t worship at the alter of tupperware…

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by BS

Spuds + Pork = Crazy Delicious

It’s soup day on the Simmer! Well it’s cold as hell so why not? Thanks to all you commenters who gave me a whole bunch of great ideas for how to use up my leftover pork pieces, I decided to give soup a chance.

Let me first say that I have never before made a successful soup. A few years ago, early on in my experimental cooking days, I tried to make potato soup and it came out brown and lumpy. I’m not even quite sure how it got that way but can you get any less appetizing than that? So needless to say, there were more than a few times throughout the planning and production of this meal that I was quite certain it was going to end up filed as a Friday Fuck Up, but through some miracle of god, cream, and bacon, it came out OK. Thus, I am allowed to post it on a Tuesday.

So I started out making a stock out of the leftover pork bone. Following all your advice, and a little online research, I soaked the bone in cold water for a couple of hours, then roasted it in the oven (I think this was a good idea because it made my house smell glorious). Then I put the bone in a saucepan with half a chopped onion and a few cloves of garlic, filled it with water, brought to a boil, and then covered and let it simmer for about three hours…

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