The only way to cook! I've been cooking dinners for close to 30 years now, the last 12 or so to the blues, most recently with 250+ blues cds in a jukebox on random with a set of harps and a couple chromatics close by. Needless to say, supper ain't often on time! :)
If TNFrank had offered a steak that looked like that instead of jerky he could have gotten a whole bunch of harmonicas!
It's an interesting choice though, frying on an electric grill and playing acoustic. I might have done it the other way round and done the steak 'acoustic' on a grill. :)
That pizza sure looks good (as I get ready to go to bed in the truck). I'm not vegan, I'll knock down a chunk of dead cow in a New York minute, if I'm a one of just a few, select steak places in the western US. I just don't eat wheat or soy products.
I get by "grazing" all day on nuts, seeds, dried berries and grass fed jerky that I keep, along with bottled water, in a milk crate beside the drivers seat. It also holds my Seydel harp case and 5 X 7" clipboard for harp practice tabs. ----------
Just when I got a paddle, they added more water to the creek.
One of your best yet Hakan! Jamie Oliver meets Adam Gussow! My kitchen sounds similar, but add hungry kids in the background............ :~} ---------- DadsinSpace-MySpace
Until about 10 years ago I was a confident cook. Not good, but there was nothing I'd be afraid to try, and never a disaster. Then I moved into a new flat and the first thing that happened was the fuse went in my stand-alone electric oven (gas hob), so I pretty much lived on food at work and sandwiches and take-aways for 10 years. The kitchen is about 7 feet by 6 feet and I didn't want to live on fried and boiled food, as that would have wrecked my stomach and the kitchen. I had a friend, until she died, who renovated houses and she gave me a replacement oven, but the electrician didn't connect it up until about 6 months ago. So I've been trying to cook again after 10 years. First disaster, doing mashed potato with a hand-blender (because I didn't want to scratch my new non-stick pan with a metal potato masher). I'd been eating too much butter, so I thought I'd make it healthy by using olive oil. Then I thought, I'll add a little vinegar and mustard and make it a little bit like a German potato salad. Don't ever do mashed potato with a (high-speed) hand blender! I ended up with vinaigrette thickened with a pound of potato starch. That might have been edible, but to cap it all, I put in way too much mustard!
Then I used the new oven for the first time three nights ago. Went out to see how the roast chicken was getting along, and the kitchen was full of smoke - the fucking thermostat was kaput! So I steamed the chicken in a pot with carrots and broccoli and had it with pasta tossed in butter one night and with olive oil and balsamic vinegar (I didn't have any lemons) the next. The chicken was a little bit smoke-damaged, but edible. probably highly carcinogenic. Whilst the chicken was steaming, I went on Amazon and ordered a combi-microwave-quartz grill (40L) and a 1100W electric mini oven. And a stainless-steel saucepan. And now I have to find the money to rebuild the kitchen and create storage space out of thin air. I don't think I'll be doing any dinner parties for a long while, lol! I have most of Jamie Oliver's half-hour meal programmes recorded, and he will be my main inspiration until I am up and running again. Thank you - I needed to get that off my chest, and you have been a patient audience. ----------
Andrew. ----------------------------------------- Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup.
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