i still want this motorcycle, and i want it even more and more when people tell me not to get one...i think my closest are afraid i'll die on it.funny saying "die on it" cause i think you die when you are quite off of it. anyway that's niether here or that way...(funny joke).
So yeah i'm thinking a motor bike,..and a fidlde,..i wanna be the next fiddle racer, it's so pretty the sound of a broke up bike and a little bluegrass fiddle played by an amature...
So i was called off work today as there is no one dancing in maine now, no one eating at our fine dining room, too bad ,cause i was going to be creative today,..i had fresh beets and goat cheese.
Why don't we sing anymore? i try it at work, but there is this somolian guy that just steals the show, i'm telling you he can sing! i love it so much, he sounds so passionate as he sings in the minor key, flawless in exicution and always in right time,in a language know to the africans that work there, but still pretty to the people that "Get" to hear him sing his lonley and sad song that i have no idea of the meaning but, it's just so cool,..i hope that when i sing "sweet home alabama" that it sounds as magical, but i know it doesn't...oh well..i have been wondering what is for dinner tomight...i do have some pizza dough.
okay there we go, pizza!..the thing that many people do is over work their dough,..you gotta learn to let the dough talk to you, let it tell you when it's ready, sometimes a round form is not what this pizza wants,.....
everyone want's to force the dough into a shape that it might not want to go into....i mean how important to you is it that your dough is round and or thick the same way at 3 oclock as it is 11 oclock?
i hope the cooks got that joke,...anyway i say make a pretty dough thick and thin enough in the right places,..like my favorite girlfriend,..now we can add our favorite toppings, but first i like to pre cook the flat bread a little before building my meal.....400 is good at about 10 min's just to start her off.,,,..and yes my pizza is a she, note my funny allegory before...
so now that your crusty lady is ready to recive goodness, and you have had a glass of beer for insperation, find the dood veggies in your 'fridge, ..a lot of people go strait for the tomato sauce and cured meats at this point, which is very good , but you don't have to be a slave to that conventional pizza mantra, it works, and is tasty, but, ....think...olive oil,...think,, spinach, .,,,think olives and julianned onions,, some hot sauce,...way better than trying to copy the "HUT", don't you think?
this goes back to cooking well and good for yourself,..the message i am trying to convey to anyone who mightread this silly little blog,...so you you do want cheese right? of course, while you choose what to put on your "ZA and let it cook,..lets talk about my lovely family.
i miss you guys so much ,.i wish nothing more than to cook a bird for you at thanksgiving, i miss so much the smell and the sounds of the kitchen with my little brothers and sisters, knowing they are learning and gunna be fed,...the smell that fills the little kitchen, the heat that makes me sweat and give the apearance that i actually work for a living,....the stupid little dog eating the scraps, and the smoke alarm going off because i burned dripping oil from the gravy.,......i don't have that now, ,..and am wondering when i will again,..i miss small children grabbing at my apron begging for the a bite of uncle cody's special dinner, even though it's somthing simple as soup or meatloaf.
P:izza time,..so i have been going with olive oil, minced garlic, S+P , thin sliced onion, maybe bell peppers, hot sauce and lots and lots of spinach,, mozzarella of course or a little goat cheese is even better, and once again do not forget the salt, please please remember the salt., then you should be good.,,...now i'm hungry again.
hey listen to that violin guy i posted, i love it very much,..plus it makes you a better cook
Cody
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Monday, November 8, 2010
nerd..
i clocked out of work today, to sit in line with a group of people waiting for the newest installment of a video game,..my roomate bought an early copy i guess so i found myself in the foggy,rainy, cold outdoors hangin' out with people that choose to spend their time playing this game. and i found it pretty cool really. the game is "call of duty" i thinkk, black op's . i was out of my element,..i haven't the dedication that these lonley people have, i kind of wish i did though, they were all so excited and dressed up, it was kinda funny being the "dork" the only person that wasn't a "gamer" i was the outcast in line,...there was a couple of cute girls too but i had no idea how to flirt with them. It was sad 'cause 'nerdy girls are so cute, but you have to know your nerdness to talk to them,..wow weird, girls are just a complication, i wish i weren't so attracted to them as my life might be much eaisier....so anyway i forgot what i was talking about,...i want to talk about food, and how to cook food
thanksgiving is around the perverbial corner isn't it?
I love this holiday, because it's eat and cook and family,...i miss that very much, as christmas can get very complicated, whereas thanksgiving is just simple. ....imiss it very much, i think my favorite thanksgiving's have been in brookings oregon, with the peeps and bobbers and even once with bartels too.. brother jake made a cover for my turkey deep fry,.. he really loves me,i can tell.
my favorite meal was one i had with bobber and brother jake and holly and the peeps, i made little chickens and coursed a meal out, i think sister holly took some pictures, however i always loose these pictures, this is why i need to blog about these things so i can remember what i do.
Anyway once again, i want to give a navy bean soup recipe but i can't seem to find one. i can tell you that the beans are important, when you soak the beans, it is also important to bring into play some aromatics, water and beans are good, but introduce water beans and bayleaf, or peppercorn, and or thyme and garlick, perhaps parsly, these are all things that bring flavor that most would overlook,.but really that's what's so cool about cooking, .....really the little tiny things that you would overlook just to get to "EATIN TIME"!,..no no no my friends, listen to the water as it simmers, smell the stuff as it simmers , get to know your food before you eat it, love it and care for it . there is somthing so romantic about watching a pot of bones and cartalige simmering for hours and hours,..taking a nap and getting up to smell marrow cooked slowly, and bones giving up the good thickness to a broth,..somthing you made and had the patience to watch,and babysit. this is once more somthing that we can all do very easily and should do more often, we can feed ourselves a lot easier than we tramp our selves out to the eating habbits of the common blue collar worker,....we are better than that,...so let's eat better than that.
thanksgiving is around the perverbial corner isn't it?
I love this holiday, because it's eat and cook and family,...i miss that very much, as christmas can get very complicated, whereas thanksgiving is just simple. ....imiss it very much, i think my favorite thanksgiving's have been in brookings oregon, with the peeps and bobbers and even once with bartels too.. brother jake made a cover for my turkey deep fry,.. he really loves me,i can tell.
my favorite meal was one i had with bobber and brother jake and holly and the peeps, i made little chickens and coursed a meal out, i think sister holly took some pictures, however i always loose these pictures, this is why i need to blog about these things so i can remember what i do.
Anyway once again, i want to give a navy bean soup recipe but i can't seem to find one. i can tell you that the beans are important, when you soak the beans, it is also important to bring into play some aromatics, water and beans are good, but introduce water beans and bayleaf, or peppercorn, and or thyme and garlick, perhaps parsly, these are all things that bring flavor that most would overlook,.but really that's what's so cool about cooking, .....really the little tiny things that you would overlook just to get to "EATIN TIME"!,..no no no my friends, listen to the water as it simmers, smell the stuff as it simmers , get to know your food before you eat it, love it and care for it . there is somthing so romantic about watching a pot of bones and cartalige simmering for hours and hours,..taking a nap and getting up to smell marrow cooked slowly, and bones giving up the good thickness to a broth,..somthing you made and had the patience to watch,and babysit. this is once more somthing that we can all do very easily and should do more often, we can feed ourselves a lot easier than we tramp our selves out to the eating habbits of the common blue collar worker,....we are better than that,...so let's eat better than that.
Sunday, November 7, 2010
second
i really need a camera for this kind of thing,..a picture is worth more than a few words i hear.
so how to cook for one's self by cody larsen;
the very sad thing about our working class gents and gems these days is that we have lost the way and wherewithall to do the most simple and basic of task,..feed ourselves. it's really too bad, because it's not all that hard, i for instance feed people i don't really care about for a living. i go to work, make good food, cash a check, pay rent, and pray for a girlfriend. why then is it so hard to cook for one'self, or the people you do care about? i know that there are home cooks out there that do so, but i think we often go too quickly to the horrible easy convienient foods, we cook shit basically for ourselves. this should not be, and i will climb off my soap box now and get down to what i'm gunna eat tonight.
tonight,...hmmmlet's see here,.flank steak, i have, broccoli, rice, carrots. look at that sounds like stirfry to me. ....so what's first you ask? well, wash the rice, cook the rice. ..rice is easy to cook and easy to destroy, do it right i say,.also rice can be wonderfull and interesting as well. when you cook rice, put aromatics in there , really anything you can think of, orange zest, bayleaf, thyme ,..i've been adding a little green tea leaves to mine, it's really nice and smells great.
So look at that! you can eat rice by it's self for a better meal than you'd get waiting in a drive thru...but there is more. So while the rice is steaming, im' gunna put the steak in a ziplock with some sambal oil, peppercorn, little vinager is nice, then sear that piece off and while it's resting use the same pan to saute some of that good'ol' broccoli and carrot, all the while your friends think you are an outstanding chef, from the smells emitting from the smokey kitchen,..oh yes anotherthing that home cooksforget is the salt and pepper. never EVER forget the salt, salt is our love and passion close and dear to every cooks heart,..salt is currancy at times, by god ghandi was almost put to death for making his own salt. so let us not forget the importance of salt.
anyway, the rice is done right? the meat is rested, ready to slice? okay...use that pan we had the meat in and put in your nice chopped veg,.. we can talk about how to use a knife properly later,...so we saute the veg all nice and brown, green onions are good right at the end here,...
so we haverice, meat and veg,..way better than jack in the box or some damn frozen pizza, really people it's that easy, feed yourself right and well, it's better for you and your friends, it practices a time honored skill for life, plus it's cheaper.
so that's my standard meal, when hungry. there is more to come though as i wish to tell the masses how easy it really is to cook and cook well, the grocery store has you fooled, cooking is a lost art and skill that we all should have.
Navy bean soup huh holly? you want that one? i'll try to figure one ut, i think i made that soup for the wedding thang.
so how to cook for one's self by cody larsen;
the very sad thing about our working class gents and gems these days is that we have lost the way and wherewithall to do the most simple and basic of task,..feed ourselves. it's really too bad, because it's not all that hard, i for instance feed people i don't really care about for a living. i go to work, make good food, cash a check, pay rent, and pray for a girlfriend. why then is it so hard to cook for one'self, or the people you do care about? i know that there are home cooks out there that do so, but i think we often go too quickly to the horrible easy convienient foods, we cook shit basically for ourselves. this should not be, and i will climb off my soap box now and get down to what i'm gunna eat tonight.
tonight,...hmmmlet's see here,.flank steak, i have, broccoli, rice, carrots. look at that sounds like stirfry to me. ....so what's first you ask? well, wash the rice, cook the rice. ..rice is easy to cook and easy to destroy, do it right i say,.also rice can be wonderfull and interesting as well. when you cook rice, put aromatics in there , really anything you can think of, orange zest, bayleaf, thyme ,..i've been adding a little green tea leaves to mine, it's really nice and smells great.
So look at that! you can eat rice by it's self for a better meal than you'd get waiting in a drive thru...but there is more. So while the rice is steaming, im' gunna put the steak in a ziplock with some sambal oil, peppercorn, little vinager is nice, then sear that piece off and while it's resting use the same pan to saute some of that good'ol' broccoli and carrot, all the while your friends think you are an outstanding chef, from the smells emitting from the smokey kitchen,..oh yes anotherthing that home cooksforget is the salt and pepper. never EVER forget the salt, salt is our love and passion close and dear to every cooks heart,..salt is currancy at times, by god ghandi was almost put to death for making his own salt. so let us not forget the importance of salt.
anyway, the rice is done right? the meat is rested, ready to slice? okay...use that pan we had the meat in and put in your nice chopped veg,.. we can talk about how to use a knife properly later,...so we saute the veg all nice and brown, green onions are good right at the end here,...
so we haverice, meat and veg,..way better than jack in the box or some damn frozen pizza, really people it's that easy, feed yourself right and well, it's better for you and your friends, it practices a time honored skill for life, plus it's cheaper.
so that's my standard meal, when hungry. there is more to come though as i wish to tell the masses how easy it really is to cook and cook well, the grocery store has you fooled, cooking is a lost art and skill that we all should have.
Navy bean soup huh holly? you want that one? i'll try to figure one ut, i think i made that soup for the wedding thang.
First
My lovely and talented sister in law i choose to call Holly, managed to keep herself up many hours glued to a computer screen ignoring her starving kids just to make this page for me,..no she probably made dinner burped,chamged diapers, and taught silas algebra at the same time.. Anyway, that was a thank you Holly.
So I go back ro work today after a gruelling three days off ,doing nothing but tye fly's and cook food,..I'm so dull really. This part of the states is quite grim this time of year, very grey and foggy, kinda rainy, and people talk a little funny. OOOh also the political game here is way more of a bloodsport then back east,..I mean people here are serious! it's crazy. the elections are over , i don't know who won but it's everyone talks about here in the great state of maine.....next post will have a recipe
So I go back ro work today after a gruelling three days off ,doing nothing but tye fly's and cook food,..I'm so dull really. This part of the states is quite grim this time of year, very grey and foggy, kinda rainy, and people talk a little funny. OOOh also the political game here is way more of a bloodsport then back east,..I mean people here are serious! it's crazy. the elections are over , i don't know who won but it's everyone talks about here in the great state of maine.....next post will have a recipe
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