If home cooking is like this...
I cooked a roast beef the other day - just a cheap eye of round, cooked rare - and I left it out overnight by mistake. As the kitchen is fairly cool this time of year and it didn't look or smell bad, it's dinner tonight. And here's real-life home cooking in action: I sauteed some onion in a bit of oil, added a little tomato paste and cooked another couple of minutes. Next in the pan was some leftover turkey gravy - the kind from a packet and itself on the verge of going bad - along with a cup of water and a beef bouillon cube. I brought it to a boil, then seasoned it with a little thyme, nutmeg, and black pepper until it tasted good, added the beef and a very old pork chop, both sliced thin, and it's cooking away. I think it will taste good; let's hope it doesn't kill us. To accompany, leftover green beans (with browned butter and almonds) and probably noodles.
Other meals this week: last night was intended to be penne with vodka sauce. Unfortunately, we had no vodka, and I couldn't find the cream that I am 100% sure I bought on my last shopping trip. So it was penne with vodkaless sauce and a weird salad on the side that only I liked. It was the easiest fennel salad Epicurious listed that contained ingredients I had on hand. It was supposed to be pretty much all white - fennel and celery and fresh mozzarella, dressed with lemon, olive oil, salt, and pepper. I think I'll do it again without the mozzarella.
Earlier this week, I tried a new way (for me) of cooking salmon, that I found on AllRecipes. Marinate the salmon a little while in olive oil, lemon, fresh garlic, salt, parsley, thyme, and dill (if desired), then bake it in the marinade, covered. I found it too lemony and too garlicky, but it was well received by the other salmon-eaters, and I think I'll tweak it and do it again. Very easy.
Isn't home cooking exciting?
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