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Food Experiment #1

Make cheesy mickey mouse and friends pasta

Step 1: Get out all ingredients, set them neatly aside for easier use.
Step 2: Read directions.
Step 3: ................ realize you don't want to make ten people's worth of macaroni.
Step 4: Stare contemplatively between ingredients and directions, trying to figure out how much of each ingredient will be needed if you make roughly 1/4 of the box.
Step 5: Add water to chosen amount of pasta, set on medium heat.
Step 6: Melt a little less than one tbs of butter in small saucepan.
Step 7: Stare and wait until melted.
Step 8: Stare dubiously at the directions for 1/3 cup of flour, estimate that about a tablespoon will do.
Step 9: Drop flour unceremoniously into butter.
Step 10: Curse as it become all lumpy and sits there.
Step 11: Stare and think.
Step 12: Add more butter. Did it work? No.
Step 13: Decide to just go with it and add the milk. About a 1/2 cup.
Step 14: Stir hopelessly, noticing it doesn't get thick and remains soupy and lumpy.
Step 15: Realize the temperature is set to low.
Step 16: Smack self in forehead.
Step 17: Stare contemplatively
Step 18: Decide to start again.
Step 19: Pour milk into glass, fish out lumps, throw away.
Step 20: Add butter to saucepan, now turned up to medium.
Step 21: Poke it a bit so it melts faster.
Step 22: Slowly add pinches of flour and stir in.
Step 23: Feel accomplished as it starts to work properly, the butter/flour mixture acting like it's supposed to.
Step 24: Eyeball if more flour needs to be added, and decide to stop while you're ahead.
Step 25: Slowly add milk. Stir. Let bubble. Marvel as it gets thicker.
Step 26: Do a happy dance.
Step 27: Confidently add 1/2 cup cheddar cheese
Step 28: Realize you don't have parmasan.
Step 29: Add some romano instead.
Step 30: Stir to melt cheese, add more cheddar to taste.
Step 31: Happy dance.
Step 32: Sauce completed!!
Step 33: Poke noodles
Step 34: Realize they're nowhere done.
Step 35: Frown slightly and keep stirring sauce.
Step 36: Stir.
Step 37: Taste
Step 38: Try to think about what it reminds you of.
Step 39: Stir
Step 40: Cheese curds! That's what it reminds you of. There's flour in cheese curds?
Step 41: Stir. Decide to turn it down to low.
Step 42: Poke noodles. Still not done.
Step 43: Stir sauce.
Step 44: Play with sauce. Ooooh, it's all sort of thick and sticks to the spoon.
Step 45: Think sauce might be getting too thick, turn heat back up.
Step 46: Poke noodles. Sigh.
Step 47: Stir Sauce for five minutes straight out of boredom.
Step 48: Think it might be getting too overcooked. Turn back to low.
Step 49: Get paranoid about it getting grainy if it goes on low, or it won't remelt.
Step 50: Poke noodles, almost done! Turn sauce up to medium-high.
Step 51: Stir cheese sauce! Ooops... burnt it a little.
Step 52: Stir frantically. Notice sauce is a bit thick.
Step 53: Notice it's thick enough to actually be a giant cheese curd.
Step 54: Notice it's almost thick enough you could probably form it into a softball and it'd keep shape for a few seconds.
Step 55: Poke noodles anxiously. DONE!
Step 56: Drain noodles.
Step 57: Add cheese to noodles.
Step 58: Sigh sadly as the faces of mickey, donald, and goofy get destroyed by the now thick, stubborn cheese.
Step 59: Put the cemented lump in a bowl.
Step 60: Stare at it.
Step 61: Eat it anyways.

Experiment status: Fail So-so Success

Again, your posts are something to behold XD

I feel silly. All I've eaten lately is egg sammiches and tacos.

What is your favourite kind of pizza?

:O

I'd say... geeze.... anything from this pizza joint we have here. Omfg the pizza is so good.

But...

Sausage, pepperoni, mushrooms, onions, green peppers, and green olives. ^_^ Thin thin crust. MMMMM.

Just Sausage and green olives is great for me. Green olives are soooo tasty.

Second: Pepperoni and mushrooms.

Fave one topping pizza is pepperoni, of course.

I'd also try most anything on a pizza. (... excluding most seafood. xD)

So:

1. What's your ultimate favourite pizza?
2. What's your second favourite?
3. If you could have only one other topping on a pizza besides cheese, what would it be?
4. What won't you eat on a pizza?

Today......... I bought a coconut.

Things did not end well. :/

First, I realized that it might be prudent to actually KNOW something about coconuts, more importantly what makes them ripe and what doesn't.

Second, I discovered that if it smells bad, it's also likely to taste bad. So in other words, don't put it in your mouth. smile

One thing I learned today: The less water noise you hear in a coconut, the better. More sloshing noises are bad. smile

And I at least had the foresight to carefully dispose of the coconut remains in a plastic bag instead of setting them out to be eaten by wildlife, because we do not want to have deer drunk off of fermented coconut.

And! The coconut split in such a way, and was such a lovely egg shape, that it now resembles a cradle and once it dries out, I could put a bit of fluff in there and I think my lizards would absolutely love it. Either that or half-bury it in their sand. ^_^

(I typed this up while waiting for pages to Load. So now I will respond properly)

PIZZA HUYT PIZZAAA!!!!!!!!!!!! I love their breadsticks. biggrin

No sauce pizza? :O I've had that, it's pretty good. It's pretty good with pesto too, or just sliced tomatoes?

CHICKEN PIZZA IS AWESOME.

But.. marshmellows? Cool! XD

I am VERY not so picky about my pizza. Man, my Uncle and Grandma are both very diabetic, and they can't EAT PIZZA.

I was like eek I'd rather eat pizza and die in a week, then go without and live ten more years. :/

Oooooooh, I envy you. Mmm, fried chicken.

WAIT I DONT. BECAUSE I HAD THE EXACT SAME THING TODAY! biggrin

But it was at a buffet, at an anniversary thing for my mom's whatever guy's grandparents. ^_^

:B

XD You guys eat so much like... well.... people our age eat.

Aaaah... our staples : Eggs, milk, cheese, ham, bread, butter, chicken, potatoes, sauce, spaghetti noodles, canned mushrooms, frozen peas.

XD Standard. O_o We don't eat a lot of beef though. *Pokes it* biggrin Mmmm, I had a hamburger yesterday when we watched the movie at mom's friend's house. It tasted so good. 8D

Mmmm, Sam's club. biggrin That place is awesome! I WANT A GIGANTIC JAR OF PICKLES FROM THERE!!!!!!!

Aaaand my grandma and uncle gave us some food (They're diabetic and don't like really salty stuff, so gave us a bunch of extra stuff they don't want to/can't eat) ... and I made ... Gihardeli or something ultimate chocolate brownies. 8D

Aaah, hahaha. Mmm.

Mmmmmm....... egg salad sandwiches. <3 HOW DO YOU MAKE YOURS?

We use real mayo and ranch dressing. 3nodding Well, my mom makes it. xD Because she makes it really good. biggrin

Onions, real mayo, some ranch dressing, a splash of pickle juice (Sometimes small cut up bits of pickles, fi we have them) ... and maybe a bit of powdered ranch if it needs it? Yeah, I think that's it. ^_^

O_O How many pizzas do you get? And how much is it?

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Also: I like to turn leftovers into soup. biggrin

The day before yesterday, we had steak Quesadillas. It goes thusly:

1. A container of beefstock, and a package of fajita/taco mix go into a large pot.
2. Add green peppers, onions, a can of spiced tomatoes, and fresh sliced mushrooms
3. Heat/cook a bit
4. Add thinly sliced steak, can be raw. Cook.

And then once it's done cooking, you just scoop it out with a ladle, and drain it off. It tastes so good. ^_^ And then you put it inbetween the tortillas and put some cheese on it and layer some smushed frijoles on one side of the tortilla, and then cook it till it's crunchy in the quesadilla maker. biggrin

AND THEN LEFTOVERS:

1. Take out leftovers and put them on the stove, turn to medium heat.
2. Add a can of white beans (They come in a large can)
3. Add a can of black beans (they come in a normal sized can, the white beans can is twice teh size)

Heat through until the beans take on the flavour of the soup, since they're already cooked.

AND THEN EAT! biggrin So I've got a delicious beefy fajita/taco soup with veggies and beans!

And I added about 1/3 a cup of flour, so it got a bit thicker. ^_^ MMmmm.

Mmmm, beans. You could put rice in it too, if you wanted.

xD Food's cheaper up here for one. My entire list of 'staples' could be bought for $50. XD Or at least I think it's cheaper...

I know Missouri has a high food tax...... hn..... xD BUT I CANT ASSUME.

biggrin Lulz. It might work. But then again, I can get really weird/annoying when I'm comfortable, and even my mom can't take me all the time. XD

I have the bad habit of... I don't know... just shouting things out? XD Saying things randomly in silences? Yeah. :B

BUT OH MY GOD THAT IS CHEAP PIZZA. O_o *Grabby hands*

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..... XD

*Enters kitchen, pauses* .... aah.... I'll just go to my room until you guys are done. Yeah. Bye. *Skeedaddles away*

Today I ate a whole box of Goldfish. biggrin