*brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr*.....
Dial tone, man.
Can't think of a decent "title" here, for some reason. Oh well. Hell with it now, I guess, right?
Yes, I "invented" dinner again... lol.
I browned hamburger, saved the "drippings". While browning, add seasonings and onions and a dash or two of Kitchen Bouquet, a nifty little thing Eric just told me about the other day. While that's workin', grab yer veggies ya like. I used corn and peas. I cooked 'em together in the same sause pan and seasoned 'em like I always do... butter and Nature's Seasonings. While they did their thing, I drained the meat (save that, don't forget) and put it in a casserole dish. Made the largest charted batch of (instant... so?) mashed short of "entire box". I put some garlic powder in those, as well as salt and butter and shit. (yeah, okay... maybe "whatever" would be a better word to use there, true, but-look at it this way- if I 'hafta' eat shit anyhow, it may as well be of my own choosing, no?) Where was I?.... uummm... Okay... when veggies are mostly done, dump 'em in with the meat in the casserole dish.
Oh, hang on a second... it is currently thundering, lightening-ing and raining it's balls off and suddenly... TADA!!! The sun is out. I have GOT to go see this shit. Be right back... Yep. Still raining and the sun is out, throwing shadows, makin' me squint, the whole nine. And, just now, a roll of thunder that sounded like a refinery blowing up. Holy shit. AND, there's a "severe weather alert" at Yahoo weather for Bucks and the surrounding area. I may just hafta go play in the stream for a while, here. Hell hair needs to be washed anyway (no, I don't mean that it getting rained on is it's being washed... it's that since it needs to be washed anyway, it's getting rained on won't matter), need to get some crick-critters for the fish tank... hmmm... Back to the (alleged) "recipe"... Okay, before the commercials, we had the meat browned, the veggies done and all of them together, waiting in the casserole dish. We also have the potatos workin'. Now comes the "tricky" part... the "gravy". I don't know how to make gravy, okay? All I know is that when ya pour the really thick gloppy shit (that would be the flour and water mixed together, which looks about as appetizing as paste) into the "base", ya do it really slowly, mixing it the whole time. Yep, that's the one thing I know about makin' gravy and the one thing I didn't wind up doing last night... sigh. What I did do is kinda hard to remember. I remember I started it all by dumping the hamburger drippings back into the frying pan, heating them up and sprinkling a few teaspoons of flour into it while I wisked it. (Should that have an "h" in it? Spelled that way, it looks like I mighta tried to remove it's ring-around-the-collar or something...) When I got that all blended, I just kept fucking with it, til there was enough of it and it was edible. I know I used a few beef boullion cubes, the water from the veggies, more flour, more Kitchen Bouquet, more Nature's Seasonings and Eric as my taste tester/guinea pig. When it was right, I first mixed the stuff in the casserole dish. Then I dumped in the gravy and mixed it a little more. Then, I took the mashed potatos ("e", no "e"... I'm never sure any more, thanks a load, Dan Quayle) and spooned/spread them over the top. Then, I meant to and just realized that I totally forgot to, sprinkle cheese on top of it and bake it til the mashed's are browned a little. Shit. Can't believe I just remembered the cheese NOW. Such a fuckin' blonde. God. Anyhoo, both guys liked it and Yay! On top of which, I finally got my house back from the clutter-monster(s) and I got my old YIM shit back too. If I didn't know any better, I'd swear I'm playing a country song backwards, I'm getting so much shit "back"... (Bad, bad old joke. "Whadda ya get if'n yew play a country song backwards?" I dunno, whut? "Yew getcher truck back, yer dawg back, yer wife back...." See? Baaaad.) Oh crap. I just saw how long this is. I done did another "extended entry" length epic. About abso-frickin'-lutely nuthin'. I expect to hear from Seinfeld's lawyers any minute now.... lol.So, to sum it up... I got up today, haven't killed not one damned thing (yet) and I pretty much have the rest of the night "off", as it were. Everything is done (except mopping the floors, but they are swept), there is still some of my creation left from last night so dinner is covered, all the animals are fine and even the computer is behaving nicely. Oh hell's bells... it just hit me. I've had the YIM on all this time and not one error message, no shutting down!!! YAY!!! It worked! Thank God. About that, the YIM, if ya try to get me, just know that I have the YIM set to connect automatically when ya start up. So, just because I may be "online", it may not be me. The only one who'd change it is George and then it'd only be if he thinks to. Therefore, it may say I'm here, but it could be a person with a (real) moustache. (Hey... just be glad I didn't say 'winkie'.) So, I have nothing that needs to be done, it's rainy and you could get severe hand damage by running yer hand UP my shins, so I guess I know what I'mina go do. Yeah... before it starts with the lightening and shit again, I'm gonna go do that kinda shit for a while. Hmmm... nobody here but me, too. That could be good for something, but I'm not sure what. Eh. It'll come to me, I guess. Y'all be having a great day, okay?
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Ain't it great when a plan comes together?
My little gravy trick (thanks Mom!). Mix the flour & some veggie water in a small bottle with a lid, then shake the hell out of it to mix it up with no lumps. Slowly pour the mixture into the pan while stirring. Done that way there's almost no chance of getting lumps. I used to end up with small dumplings when I tried to make gravy, 'til I got 'smarted up'.
My little gravy trick (thanks Mom!). Mix the flour & some veggie water in a small bottle with a lid, then shake the hell out of it to mix it up with no lumps. Slowly pour the mixture into the pan while stirring. Done that way there's almost no chance of getting lumps. I used to end up with small dumplings when I tried to make gravy, 'til I got 'smarted up'.
Posted by: Light & Dark at July 27, 2004 09:42 PM (eT6wp)
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Cool idea! Thanks Paul's Mom!!!
Yeah, those 'dumplings' to which you refer would be that pasty shit that never works right... lol.
Next up, I wanna try a thing that involves chunks of beef (browned), veggies and a Hunter sauce with a plop or two of sour cream in it over wide-assed egg noodles.
Yeah, those 'dumplings' to which you refer would be that pasty shit that never works right... lol.
Next up, I wanna try a thing that involves chunks of beef (browned), veggies and a Hunter sauce with a plop or two of sour cream in it over wide-assed egg noodles.
Posted by: Stevie at July 28, 2004 06:50 AM (mLUJL)
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