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Since I'm more-or-less housebound thanks to the weather I have been cooking a lot. One thing I've been making is Flexible Not-Just-For-Breakfast Stovetop Stuff. It's not fantastic. It's not gourmet. It's not even good for you. Which means, of course, that it's damned yummy.
Required:
Potatoes O'Brien. Make your own or (if you're me) get the frozen bags from $stupidmarket when they're on sale. (If you don't know, it's cubed potatoes w/ capsicum peppers and onions. The bags I get from Krogers use both red & green peppers. Yum!)
Cheese: Shredded. You can use food product slices, or anything in small, quickly melt-able pieces. Sharp cheddar + spicy jack cheeses go well with this, but, hey, use anything you want.
BigAss Frying Pan
Optional - One or more of:
Eggs, beaten into a froth, or Egg-like Substitute, shaken into a froth.
Sausage meat (I use bulk spicy italian. Use whatever kind you like.)
Ground Pepper
Bacon Salt
Sriracha Sauce
>grab container< "Hey, i wonder how this would taste in that?"
If using sausage, put in medium-to-medium-hot heated pan, break into little pieces, cook mostly done.
If not using meat, put a little oil in a pan and heat it in a medium-to-medium-hot heated pan. [Look, you know your stove better than me. Mine can cause sunburn on a 9 setting.]
Add a layer of the Potatoes. If you're using the frozen, use a little too much (it'll shrink a bit). Cover. Let sit for about 4-5 minutes, far less if you've made your own potatoes. The bottom stuff should be mildly brown but not burnt.
Uncover, stir and turn, try to get everything moved about. If you're using frozen potatoes they won't be fully thawed & browned up yet.
If you're adding eggs, this is where to do it. I shouldn't have to tell you that you should not add salt to the start of cooking scrambled eggs, it makes 'em tough. Or if you're me, tougher. Move the eggs around so they all get heat under 'em.
When the eggs are no longer completely liquid, or if you're skipping the eggs, season stuff. Add your bacon salt, your ground pepper, your sriracha sauce, whatever. Then add your cheese on top. Make a nice layer. Yum yum yum. Cover again. Turn down the heat. Leave for 1-2 minutes, enough time so your eggs don't become leather and but your cheese melts.
Turn into bowls. Or you can heat tortillas and have whacky breakfasty tortilla thingies.
One BigAss Frying Pan makes enough for at least 4-5 people, or 2-3 days of feeding a Moose, if that's all it eats in a day. Each serving (even if you just use the potatoes and low-fat cheese) has about 5 Zillion Calories and will probably choke your arteries from just the smell.
The flexibility here is enormous. You could put in some vegables at the cheese state. You could try various other meats. Ground chicken or turkey, maybe?
In unrelated news I just made some stock that became so concentrated it may be one step above a bullion cube.
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One of the reasons I saw my general medical practicioner this afternoon was to get a refill on one of my maintenance prescriptions, specifically the antihistamine. So I dropped it off at the pharmacy, wandered around, and went back to pick it up.
They returned the prescription paperwork and said, "Our wholesaler no longer carries this, so we can't fill it for you." This was upsetting, as (a) I'm taking the last dose of the existing drug tonight, and (b) this is actually my second-choice maintenance antihistamine and decongestant prescription (the first one that worked reliably, Bromfed, is no longer manufactured). When I got home I called another nearby major chain drugstore [whose initials make me think of content versioning systems] and they did some computer searches and came back with the statement, "There isn't a version with the dosage you're asking about, 6/45, but there are these two other dosages, 6/60 and 9/90." I thanked them and called the doctor's office.
The person I spoke to at the doctor's office said she'd get the information to the doctor so he could revise the prescription and call it into the pharmacy. After a couple of hours he called me back to make sure he understood the preceding, and said he'd rewrite the prescription for one of the new dosages (6/60, since 9/90 would make me "drier than a cactus"). Hooray.
Ten minutes later he called me back. It seems that the person I'd spoken to originally was wrong and they do still make it in the original 6/45 formulation. So I'll get the regular-for-me drugs from a new pharmacy tomorrow after work, and feel mildly guilty about asking my doctor to jump through hoops that turned out to be unnecessary.
Meh.
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Monday at 4pm was my 6-month (plus 2 weeks, since 6 months would have been Christmas week and the office was closed) dental checkup, so I got to skip out of work a bit after 3pm. Having lunched at my desk, I still had over 8 hours on the day (and with the work from home before and after the work day, nearly 9 on the day). All was well, though there's some sensitivity on the crowns to watch out for (the right one to extreme cold and the left one to root surface poking). Of course, 6 more months would be July 4th, so the next appointment is a week later than that.
Tuesday stomach cramps woke me up around 3am. Some Advil took care of the pain, a large glass of juice helped calm the stomach more or less, but I couldn't get back to sleep. I managed to get about half an hour of work in from home between then and now (and did my morning cleanup and verification tasks and found one issue that someone else should have caught before the break, oops). I get to skip out of work extra-early, though, as I have a 2pm doctor's appointment to (a) get a maintenance prescription refill that they won't give the pharmacy over the phone and (b) follow up on the rash on the back of my hand. (I haven't blogged about that previously; I somehow got a rash on the back of my right hand, and it didn't clear up with topical steroids, so I saw a PA¹ back in late November and got a prescription cream for it. She said if it wasn't gone in 6 weeks to come back; it's been 6 weeks.)
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¹ In this context, Physician's Assistant. You perverts.
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I got a call this morning from ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mizmoose searching for a PowerBook video adapter. I did have one (hopefully the one she needed), so after a quick shower I headed over to her place to give her the adapter, and since we were out in that end of the world, we headed out to Lai Lai for dim sum. We had baked pork buns, gai lan, garlic spare ribs, meat dumplings, scallion pancakes, shrimp balls, shrimp toast, and sticky rice, plus the fortune cookie (I'll have something good happen before my next birthday, or something). Urp. It's been over 4 hours and I'm still stuffed, so tonight's dinner plans (roasted half duckling and wild rice) just became tomorrow night's plans.
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Using "home, work, and food" as organizational points worked for the past four years, why mess with a good thing? So with no further ado, here's ( the year in review (cut for length, 1489 words)... ).
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The calendar informs me that I have only posted here once this month.
Now it is twice.
p.s. Happy New Year. May the last year of the decade bring much, much better things than the previous 9 have.
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It's coming up on the end of the year, so it's time for one of the more common memes, Where I Slept This Year: - Ann Arbor, MI (Jan-Jul, home)
- Saline, MI (Jul-Dec, home)
- Chicago, IL (May, BP/IML/Shibaricon 2009)
- Portland, OR (Jun, motss.con.xxii)
- San Francisco, CA (Aug-Sep, training class)
- Orlando, FL (Oct, OTCW 2009)
- Baltimore, MD (Nov, LISA 2009)
Thanks to lcohen for the reminder.
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Today I spent the morning visiting with Jeff, a friend and former roommate from college. He had to work so he stayed home (with the dogs) instead of skipping town with his wife and kid to visit her family for the holiday. We spent a couple of hours catching up, including spending half an hour or so walking his dogs in the rain.
Got home, tossed the coat in the dryer on low heat, grabbed a light lunch, did some chores (washed dishes, filed the paid bills, and folded the clean laundry displaced from the dryer), then took bummed around online until it was time to head to Mom's for dinner. She made a jumbo shrimp appetizer; a honey-baked ham,¹ mashed potatoes, homemade applesauce, candied yams, and a Jello mould with fruit (bananas, pineapple,² and strawberries) for the main course; and vanilla ice cream with hot bittersweet chocolate sauce for dessert. Yum.
I escaped with presents — a large picture which will probably go downstairs, a small picture which will probably go in the guest bathroom upstairs, a couple of frozen precooked half ducks she'd grabbed for me on sale, a free-with-purchase cookbook that probably doesn't suck, and leftovers of the ham and Jello — and got home reasonably uneventfully and well before anything iced up and over.
And now, it's naptime. Urp.
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¹ Yes, I'm amused at having a Christmas ham for dinner when we're Jewish.
² Which she can't make for my grandmother, who's allergic to pineapple.
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