So much fun not....

wheeee, I just love trying to communicate with a landlord for whom english is not their first language *head bang* Yes, this means we've entered into the "showing the apartment" phase of me leaving. Which, it seems will once again involve ME showing it. Or at least I assume that because I can't get a straight answer on that -- just more talk of times. *rolls eyes* We'll see how this goes. In the meantime, I'd better clean the pit again. :P So have to do laundry too.

Basic Cooking I -- Tools and Boiling a TASTEFUL Chicken

Hmm, cooked ticky seemed to be popular, LOL. Anyways, here we go.

First off, I figured I'd detail the bare minimum of utensils/pans required for most of the things I'll be posting. It's really pretty basic.

1. A medium to large sized sauce pan. Basically at least around 2 quarts-ish. If you do one quart, you'll have to watch for boil-overage a lot.


2. Not required but very helpful (especially if you like cookies): flat pizza pan or cookie sheet. Beyond sweets and frozen pizzas, these are nice to use to bake/broil meats on (wrap meat in foil and place on cookie pan just so you don't have to worry about the rack in your oven puncturing the foil. Trust me, cleaning ovens SUCKS. This hopefully prevents that


3. One skillet -- if you like stir fry, I recommend a 10-incher. If it has a wooden handle instead of plastic, that means you can put it in the oven as well.


4. If your pans are non-stick, one large plastic spoon and a plastic spatula....umm you know the ones w/ the flat ends for flipping pancakes. I may be naming it wrong.


5. If you want to bake from scratch (or box mixes), one mixing spatula


6. At least one sharp knife for cutting vegetables, meats, etc. I don't really worry about cutting boards, I just use a regular ceramic plate. (remember, meats and plastic cutting surfaces somewhat bad as bacteria can get into the knife grooves. so if you like cutting boards, have one for meats and another one for veggies)


7. a 9x9 oven pan. Good for lining with foil to broil or bake meats/veggies etc, but also essential for brownies or cakes


8. at the very least, your spice cabinet should have salt, pepper, and baking soda. Salt and pepper for flavor. Baking soda for ice box smells (pour some in a paper cup and stick in your fridge) and possible grease fires, if not for baking from scratch


9. If you ever intend to bake, a set of measuring cups and measuring spoons. if you want to be techincal, measuring cups are for dry ingredients only really -- they'll measure out slightly less liquid than you need, so you should also get a liquid measuring cup, ie the plastic or pyrex ones with handle that have the notched pouring edge


10. if you do plan on baking from scratch, baking powder will be essential. As will vanilla extract.

As far as utensils go, I think that's it. I'll edit this if I think of anything else.

Now then, on to basic recipe #1: ( How to boil chicken and have it taste like something. )

If anything there wasn't clear, just ask.

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okay...craving sweets is all fine and good. But when I finally go and get said sweets (and thank you starbucks for your insanely good petite french cakes), making me feel like it's too sweet, not cool.

Make up your mind, body. Seriously.

I'm starting to think BushCo receives royalties from the Daily show

Cheney says that the Vice President office is not a part of the executive branch of government

In 2004, the Office of the Vice President blocked inspectors from the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) of the NationalArchives from conducting an on-site inspection of the VP's White Houseoffice, although the ISOO was required to do under Executive Order12958, signed by President Bush.

In explaining why they were blocking these inspectors, the VicePresident's office, according to Henry Waxman, "asserted that theOffice of the Vice President is not an 'entity within the executivebranch' and hence is not subject to presidential executive orders."

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Dear Mercury,

Get your ass out of retrograde.

kthx,
me