My Adventures in Cooking!

I've decided I should post more about food, mostly because food is fun, yummy, and doesn't ignore my text messages or calls - or only talk to me when it wants something. So, this is episode one of my cooking adventures!

This Sunday when I was grocery shopping they had Foster Farms chickens on sale as well as beef ribs. I got the chicken for $4 and the rack of beef ribs for $3.50 so I'm quite proud of that, and they were both on sale so I cooked them both at once - just in case they weren't at the "peak of freshness".



My honey-barbecue beef ribs - I just invented the recipe. I think it was so successful because I used raw honey...it's SO delicious that way!



My roast chicken, cooked the way my mommy taught me...and super-duper delicious.



I found these beers for relatively cheap at Trader Joe's and bought them for the hell of it (I can afford $4 for a few months yet...good God I need a job) and when I cracked the first one open my immediate thought was, "How LONG has it been since I've had beer out of a can?" I know I had one in South Africa - a Castle - but BEFORE then...gosh I might've still been in undergrad!!
These aren't bad. No Stella Artois, of course, but still, very drinkable football/afternoon beer.

I also bought beetroot at the farmers' market that day, and made my Harvard beetroot recipe. It's still not like the Aunt Nellie's stuff that I buy in Florida (I can't BELIEVE they don't sell it out here!) but it's pretty good, and I'll just leave the recipe as is until I find another one that's been vouched for.

Me cooking! This stuff TOTALLY spatters so the apron was DEFINITELY necessary.

I was also on a Mexican kick a couple of weeks ago and made this:

Vegetarian nachos!
It's insanely simple and insanely yummy:
1. Spread tortilla chips on plate
2. Stir some water into canned refried beans until smooth, dollop over tortilla chips
3. Sprinkle with grated cheese
4. Microwave for two minutes
5. Sprinkle with more grated cheese, chopped onion and dollop lots of delicious sour cream over all.

It's surprisingly yummy and 100% vegetarian, and super quick and easy. I kind of want to make it again, but having tortilla chips and sour cream and cheese in the house is just generally a terrible thing for my diet.

I also made tacos recently but unfortunately I don't have pictures of that. They were really yummy though, I put a ton of sour cream on them and lots of cheese and onion and lots of beef...yum!!!

And now I'm hungry again. Damn, I'm already over my limit today. I want nachos so much! But I'm broke and overweight so I'll have to resist temptation.

Anyway, yay food!