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Oct. 15th, 2006 09:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
verbicideThat was damn fun.
Sarah & siblings just left. I'm never sure if I've done pot roast right, since I didn't grow up with it and never order it--but they seemed to like it. It (as always) needed more salt. I feel the same way about brisket, I want to love it because it's beef-y and comforting, but I'm just not sure about it. My mom used to make corned beef, so I love that. The one thing I was excited about was the gravy--it's one of my particular weak areas, but I think I did it much better this time. I think putting it through the sieve is what worked for me, not that I'm dissing gravy-with-stuff.
I think the chipotle smashed sweet potatoes are still a shade too spicy, but they're fine when I eat them with other things (like pot roast). The cakes came out well, too. Nothing like a ramekin of warm chocolate cake.
I need to somehow package some food up for Jeff and Pete for tomorrow. I'm hoping ziplock bags will work, because I'm once again out of tupperware. I don't understand where it all goes. I keep buying gladware thingies and they all disappear!
I still have this enormous pot of marinara on my stovetop and have to package it up and put it away. Maybe I'll just shove the pot in the fridge and do it tomorrow. Because I am TIRED! Oh, but first need to put in a load of wheat bread for Jeff.
I'm not sure if this is rude, but I've started cleaning the kitchen while I still have friends over. Chatting with them makes the task go by so much faster, and once they're gone, I don't have to turn around and face a totaled kitchen alone, with no energy to clean. I've got a dishwasher load running, and everything else is pretty tidy.
Sarah & siblings just left. I'm never sure if I've done pot roast right, since I didn't grow up with it and never order it--but they seemed to like it. It (as always) needed more salt. I feel the same way about brisket, I want to love it because it's beef-y and comforting, but I'm just not sure about it. My mom used to make corned beef, so I love that. The one thing I was excited about was the gravy--it's one of my particular weak areas, but I think I did it much better this time. I think putting it through the sieve is what worked for me, not that I'm dissing gravy-with-stuff.
I think the chipotle smashed sweet potatoes are still a shade too spicy, but they're fine when I eat them with other things (like pot roast). The cakes came out well, too. Nothing like a ramekin of warm chocolate cake.
I need to somehow package some food up for Jeff and Pete for tomorrow. I'm hoping ziplock bags will work, because I'm once again out of tupperware. I don't understand where it all goes. I keep buying gladware thingies and they all disappear!
I still have this enormous pot of marinara on my stovetop and have to package it up and put it away. Maybe I'll just shove the pot in the fridge and do it tomorrow. Because I am TIRED! Oh, but first need to put in a load of wheat bread for Jeff.
I'm not sure if this is rude, but I've started cleaning the kitchen while I still have friends over. Chatting with them makes the task go by so much faster, and once they're gone, I don't have to turn around and face a totaled kitchen alone, with no energy to clean. I've got a dishwasher load running, and everything else is pretty tidy.
