Grown-up and prepared: Buying lime juice, soy sauce, and frozen chicken breasts several days in advance so as to enjoy a signature home-cooked meal
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My recent cooking/baking adventures came to a screeching halt this week due to complete and total absence of my 13x9 pan. No idea where that bastard is. At least I hadn't combined the ingredients yet.
Although once, to make rice krispy treats, I just used my largish skillet as the pan. Worked just fine. The key lies in improvisation, which is why bachelors should in fact be considered much BETTER chefs/cooks than people who use "conventional" means. (Insert oven pun.)
David, your user pic is brilliant. I totally watched that show.
The redeeming end to this whole saga is that the food really turned out quite well.
Then I spent the night sitting on my couch/bed watching Doctor Who on my laptop, which is sitting on top of an upside-down rubbermaid tub that I've been using for laundry since I went off to college.
So... I still feel like a squatter, but at least I'm now a well-fed and entertained squatter.
Seriously, though, why don't I own scissors? If I'd had scissors I would probably have noticed how unreasonably difficult that was instead of assuming it was my fault for using a damn knife.
I think I do own scissors and just don't know where they are, which is almost worse because I can't really justify buying new ones.
Super sekrit chef hint. Limes contain fresh lime juice, don't need to be refrigerated, and can be opened with a knife. Seriously, why by a plastic lime when you can use real ones?
Actually, I usually do use real limes, for exactly the reasons you describe.
My reason for buying lime juice this time, ironically, is that I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go through all the work to get the juice out of the lime.
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My recent cooking/baking adventures came to a screeching halt this week due to complete and total absence of my 13x9 pan. No idea where that bastard is. At least I hadn't combined the ingredients yet.
Although once, to make rice krispy treats, I just used my largish skillet as the pan. Worked just fine. The key lies in improvisation, which is why bachelors should in fact be considered much BETTER chefs/cooks than people who use "conventional" means. (Insert oven pun.)
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The redeeming end to this whole saga is that the food really turned out quite well.
Then I spent the night sitting on my couch/bed watching Doctor Who on my laptop, which is sitting on top of an upside-down rubbermaid tub that I've been using for laundry since I went off to college.
So... I still feel like a squatter, but at least I'm now a well-fed and entertained squatter.
Seriously, though, why don't I own scissors? If I'd had scissors I would probably have noticed how unreasonably difficult that was instead of assuming it was my fault for using a damn knife.
I think I do own scissors and just don't know where they are, which is almost worse because I can't really justify buying new ones.
Anyway, sleep mode activate.
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My reason for buying lime juice this time, ironically, is that I was feeling lazy and didn't want to go through all the work to get the juice out of the lime.
I guess that'll teach me.
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