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I made perogi for the first time. It was actually not as difficult as I thought, though it did take some time. Some of them were filled with cheese and others with chicken, which I topped with cheese. Ate them with spicy tomato sauce. Pretty delicious, especially considering I didn't fry them after I boiled them (cause I want to delude myself into thinking I'm being healthy)
 
Tonight's going to be salmon with roasted veggies (green beans, onions, mushrooms, and red bell pepper). Haven't decided what the starch will be yet, might just open up a box of rice a roni (shut up, the four cheese is life). Might do a spinach salad on the side, but likely not, as all the rest is more than enough food.
 
Roasted acorn squash soup season with nutmeg and rye croutons (because that’s all I had). And a bunch of apple crisp because it’s just what I do this time of year.
 
Ladies and gentlemen, I today have come up with my Magnum Opus, my Mona Lisa, my Citizen Kane, my greatest contribution to mankind (involving oatmeal atleast).....

ELVIS. OATMEAL.

Fry up two or three rashers of streaky bacon until they are perfectly crispy, when they are finished break into small pieces and chop up a single banana (of your preferred ripeness) into small slices before setting both aside for the moment. Combine a quarter cup of oats with a half cup/three quarter cup of milk, a pinch of salt, and a quarter teaspoon of cinnamon in a bowl and microwave for 3 minutes, stirring halfway through.

Once finished, take a tablespoon of your preferred peanut butter and mix through the hot oatmeal (add more milk here if needed) and then mix in the crispy bacon bits and banana slices

Eat.....and enjoy the absolute culmination of the porridge art. Make sure with each spoonfull you have a good splodge of the cinnamon spiced peanut butter oatmeal, a banana slice, and a couple of crunchy bacon bits.

And despite its namesake being infamous as the sandwich that led to elvis dying of being a fat bastard in the bathroom, this dish is actually pretty damn nutritionally sound given the proteiny fibre-ey peanut butter/oats and the vitaminy banana and the now confirmed healthy fatty and meaty bacon. Perfect as a comfort food after a workout
 
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Teriyaki stir fry. Bacon to use the fat from. Chicken, onion, mushrooms, beansprouts, sauce packet (cost like 45 cents in burgercoin) and dried noodles as I used to throw out like a half pack of the fresh stuff. Was really nice.
 
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Making some noodles and cheese.

Cheese sauce of some aldi velveeta, tail end of a container of minced garlic in olive oil, tail end of a bag of shredded cheddar, an old slice of smoked gouda, some sour cream, and a bunch aldi Frank's red hot sauce.
Very dank sauce, boiling the noodles now.
 
Earlier today made a Cuban coffee in the Bialetti and for dinner broiled some chicken breast I had soaking in a jerk marinade for a day and change.
 
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While watching Orange is the New Black, got a mad craving for clam dip, which they apparently don't sell anymore, so I made my own.
 
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Breakfast pizza.

Basic pizza crust (2 c flour, 1 tsp sugar, 3/4 tsp salt, 3/4 c water, 1 pkt yeast, 3 Tbsp oil).

For toppings, I cooked 1 lb pork sausage. With the grease, I added a bit more bacon grease and made gravy (about 3/4 c water and dry milk, salt, pepper, enough flour to thicken it to the right consistency, smoked ghost pepper flakes, a few squirts of hot sauce). The gravy went on the pizza dough to make the pizza base, then I added some mozzarella, about half the sausage, some chopped ham, a shredded potato, mozzarella and cheddar, the rest of the sausage and some more ham, 2 eggs, 25 habaneros (chopped finely), and more of both cheeses on top.

Baked 400 degrees for 30 minutes, removed to cooling rack.

It ended up being thick but damn good. Topped with more smoked ghost pepper flakes and a generous dusting of powdered reaper.
 
I made fish tacos last night. The sauce on top is avacado, lime and sour cream. The bed is a slaw of cabbage, onion, jalapeno, cilantro, lime and Roma tomatoes.

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Beef stew, heavy on the meat, carrots, onion pepper, red wine, celery and red new potatos tried in new crock pot, was very happy.

Had it sunday for football and ww1/ vets day party guests all were happy, so that means a lot to me.
 
I made some excellent pumpkin gnocchi (pumpkin alfredo sauce with regular gnocchi). The trick is to season the potatoes before you form them into gnocchi with some really good parmesan, pepper and salt, and a tiny pinch of red pepper. The sauce is very easy, too - it's pumpkin puree combined with heavy cream, parmesan, butter, lots of garlic cloves (sauteed in the butter), and a sprinkle of Italian parsley. 10/10 comfy fall recipe

It's also astonishing how easy French onion soup is to make, and how tasty it is. You don't even need the bread round, either - it's fairly filling on its own. A bit of Gruyere or Emmental doesn't hurt, though.
 
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