cooking

for the last year or so, i have not been eating at home. pretty much ever. almost every single meal i ate was at a restaurant. now that i’m trying to actually stick to a budget, i obviously can’t keep that habit up. so recently i have started eating at home and cooking more. it’s actually been hella cool.

this weekend caryn and i cooked up a storm. we made a ton of good meals. saturday morning, she had the idea of trying to make “mcgriddles” at home. mcgriddles are a new kind of breakfast sandwich at mcdonalds that are basically a sandwich w/ eggs, bacon, and melted cheese in between 2 pancakes instead of bread. dude, these tasted soooo damn good!

the following morning, we made eggs blackstone. they are a poached egg on top of an english muffin w/ cheese, grilled tomatoes, and hollandaise sauce. i’ve never tried to poach an egg before and it turns out it’s really not that easy. each time i would try to pour the egg into boiling water, the egg would just dissipate and flow all over the place. i fucked up a bunch of eggs in the process and had to start over a couple of times. in the end, i pretty much got the hang of it though.

then, sunday night, we decided to make sashimi for dinner. we bought some green tea, miso soup, rice, salad, and some raw fish. the dinner was soo damn good. it’s funny, when you go to sushi, the best part is the sashimi and it’s sooo damn expensive. i usually can only afford to get a little. but if you just buy the fish at a store, you can get a *ton* of it for way cheap. the meal we ate would have cost a zillion times as much if we had ordered it at a sushi place.

-v