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Monday, November 12, 2007 in food

Recipe Friday, er Monday: Snark Edition

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Usually I get an idea for Recipe Friday and write it up ahead of time, setting it to post early on Friday. Not this week. This week I was stumped. And I also got really busy with some work and didn’t get this posted on Friday.

The Kraft Canada “What’s Cooking” magazine showed up on Thursday. Now, don’t get me wrong here, I like the mag, it has tons of great ideas, and I do understand it exists to sell products. But every so often it falls short. It passes from annoying me right into plain insulting and obnoxious.

Exhibit A:
too simple to be true 2
That’s right folks, it’s a recipe for veggies and dip. Take veggies. Add dip. You too can be a culinary genius! I am glad they told me that because I would have had no idea what to do with these fresh veggies and this bottle of veggie dip. I mean, I didn’t go to a chef college or anything, so I do not know these things.

Exhibit B:
too simple to be true
What? You mean I don’t have to consume your products one at a time? I can mix them up? Or combine them to make more interesting meals? Who would have thought? The mind, it is truly boggling. Think of all the mealtime opportunities I now have. Cookies and coffee: who knew? And Jello plus Cool Whip PLUS fruit? Someone notify Bill Cosby. He’s gonna LOVE it.

And lastly, I bring you this gem from the previous magazine.
No, no you can't.

If you can’t read it, it says “Cream of mushroom soup and cheez whiz. With these items, I can go in lots of direction.!” No! No you can’t! If you mean a trip to the ER after a steady diet of it. And if you do think you can go lots directions with that, obviously you’ve already been consuming far too much of it and it’s affecting your brain. Put the can of soup down, please. Back away from the cheez whiz.

The rest of the magazine was good, and I feel compelled to note in the interest of full disclosure that I do indeed have some pages marked for me to try later. I HATE THAT YOU MAKE ME LOVE YOU, KRAFT. EVEN WHEN YOU INSULT MY INTELLIGENCE.

Friday, October 26, 2007 in food

Cinnamon casserole

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It occured to me earlier this week that I need to blog more recipes and I need to do it regular. So welcome to Week 1 of Recipe Friday. Feel free to join the bandwagon!

1 pound ground beef (more or less, could use pork or ground turkey too)
2 cups of dry elbow macaroni
1 can tomato soup
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1 or 2 cups shredded mozzarella (mmmm cheese)

Brown the ground beef, and boil them noodles. (Easy, so far, huh?). Drain the fat from the meat, drain the water from the noodles and toss both in the noodle pot. Dump in the tomato soup and spices. Stir well. Top with cheese. Broil for 5 minutes to melt.

You could also put it in a casserole dish in the oven at 350 for 30 mins, but if you work fast, all you need is to melt the cheese because everything else is still hot.

Thursday, October 25, 2007 in food, humour, linky love

This is one reason why we don’t buy cakes

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My bff Sherry pointed me to this community entry in LJ in which someone orders a cake from Wal-Mart.

I’m gonna assume that was over the phone. (Hint: bad idea.)

Thursday, October 4, 2007 in food

Cream Cheese Brownies

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Cream cheese brownies

Mix in a small bowl -
4oz cream cheese (half a brick)
1 egg
1/2 cup sugar
2 TBSP flour
1/2 cup maraschino cherries, cut up and well drained

Beat cheese and 1 egg well. Blend sugar and flour in gradually until well blended then stir in cherries. Set aside.

Mix in a bigger bowl -
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup flour
1/2 cup walnuts (optional)
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup butter or margarine

Beat the 2 eggs until frothy and add next 4 ingredients. Melt butter and stir in cocoa. Add to the egg/sugar/flour mixture. Stir well.

Spread a scant 2/3rds of the chocolate mixture on the bottom of a well-greased 8×8 pan. Carefully spread or drizzle the cream cheese & cherry mix over top. I used a spatula and let it drizzle off the edge in small doses, moving it back and forth. Spread or drizzle remaining chocolate batter over top as best you can.

Bake in 350 oven for 30 to 35 minutes – it should show signs of pulling away from the edges of the pan. Let cool. Theoretically, you can cut it into 25 measly pieces.

Tuesday, September 18, 2007 in family, food, humour

It happened again

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It all started when I cooked supper… yeah I know what you’re thinking. But seriously though – this time was totally not my fault. Except where maybe I could have mentioned it to Ron sooner.

Anyway. Supper was in the oven and I left the room just for a few moments. What?? I put the timer on this time! Then I heard Meaghan say those words again, “MOM?!? Something’s wrong with the OVEN!”

I hustled in to the kitchen to find a distressingly familiar bright orange glow emminating from the oven window. Technically, I have to insist there were no flames. I think. It was hard to tell. There was no smoke, so that’s a plus, right? That’s when Meaghan asked, “WHY do I have to be the one to ALWAYS WITNESS the kitchen being ON FIRE?”

But she was playing that for laughs. I think. So it was not actually on fire, just the element blew in a spectacular fashion. I *knew* it looked fishy in that spot. I turned off the oven part and was able to use the burner and fry dinner instead of bake it.

Then Ron came home and we decended upon him with the stoiry. He just shook his head and left the room.

(Dinner was good, by the way. Even Ron said so when he regained the power of speech.)

Edited a week later to add a pic of the element:
Oven element
Those are not bubbles of burnt-on food, that’s what happened to the metal.

Tuesday, September 4, 2007 in food, how my children learn

Not back to school, but the grocery store

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Sarah and I did the grocery run this morning, but by the time we finally got there it was just about lunch time. Normally this doesn’t even register on our rader very much, but today it did after we kept seeing kids and teens around. Then I realized the high school was just down the street and the grocery store has a deli that serves lunch. Doh.

We were both amused by the girls who all dressed alike (to express their individuality) and the majority of boys in a sort of uniform: black tshirt, baggy jeans, skateboard sneakers. I was convinced that the same 6 guys were walking back and forth.

Meanwhile, Sarah and I price-checked, compared unit values, budgeted, planned meals for the week and generally had a good time poking fun at others. :D