If you don't know what a war bond is, wiki it.
Anyway, as usual of course, I'm digressing. I really made this post to say that about half an hour ago, I made deviled eggs. For the record, when I was writing this, it was 3:17 AM. Anyway, the best part is, I don't even have any symptoms of salmonella poisoning (yet).
Here's a picture. You can ignore the toast; I was just hungry, so I grabbed a slice of bread and stuck it in the toaster, then slapped it onto the plate.
Not bad. I have to send a shout-out to my friend S-K Sucky, for helping me out when I panicked. I was looking on the eHow instruction page for making deviled eggs, and I realized I didn't have any mustard or mayonnaise in the house. She suggested substituting the mustard with black pepper, and told me that the mayonnaise wasn't really necessary. Well, she was right. It tasted awesome. I added salt, black pepper, cinnamon and vinegar to the yolk mixture. Epic win, if I do say so myself.
Next time I try it though, I hope I have all the ingredients on hand. There are some other recipes that I've seen around the internet that I want to try. Here are some links:
1) Chocolate Chip Cookies - It's not so much not knowing how to do it, or not having the materials, as it is finding the TIME to make them. It seems the only time I can get some peace to cook is at like 1:30 AM in the mornings. So be it. I hereby declare that ungodly hour to be Gourmet Time in this household!
2) Log Cake - I dunno about, "Yule" log cake, as opposed to say, "Summer Holidays" log cake or "Losing Virginity" log cake or "Breaking Up With Your Girlfriend Because She Was Cheating on You and Gave You an STI" log cake, but what I do know is that log cakes look so PRETTY! For this one, the issue is definitely getting the icing and the tools to make the decorations. They don't come cheap (the icing AND the tools I mean), and I'm on a budget (it's called the broke-ass negro budget). I definitely want to make it someday. Maybe before summer's done, who knows?
3) Pound Cake - This is probably the easiest thing on my list to make. It's plain, but of course, I intend to make minor modifications to flavour it to my will. I don't have any particular flavour in mind yet though. I have the skill and I almost always have most of the basic ingredients for Pound Cake on hand, but the idea of making one has just never crossed my mind at the right time. I'll probably try this sometime before the end of next week. Of course, I'll blog about the results, just because I love you guys. I'll even share some with you all. ^_^
4) Chinese Dumplings (Type 1) (Type 2) - This is probably going to be the recipe whose ingredients are going to be the hardest to source. I can already figure out some simplifications to replace the more exotic ingredients, but I'm at a loss for some of them. Like Napa cabbage, I can probably replace that with ordinary cabbage I find at the market. And this may be a long shot, but maybe I can replace bamboo shoots with escallion. As a side note, the Japanese call these edible bamboo shoots "takenoko". Not to be confused with the word "bakemono", which means monster. That might make dinner a bit awkward...
Jiaozi Dumplings
Potsticker Dumplings
Anyway onto the ingredients that are more difficult to obtain. Like this "salt" thing...what the heck is "salt"?! Where am I supposed to find that crap? I'm just kidding. It's going to be difficult for me to get my hands on things like Chinese rice wine, or even sherry (Mr. Chin just went $_$), and I doubt Smirnoff Ice would do anything but be a fire hazard. Also, I could always make my own dumpling dough, but it would probably be a lot easier (and safer), if I bought pre-made wrappers. That probably wouldn't be hard to source though, I have some friends who know quite a bit about that stuff.
5) PIZZA! - My mother has made pizza for me before, but I've never done it for myself. She also uses ready made pizza crust. I want to try it by myself and make the dough from scratch. The varieties of cheese that can be obtained where I live are rather limited though, but I can find Mozzarella (at the low, low cost of an arm and a leg), so that's not really such a big problem. I can get creative with the topping too, so that's not really a big issue. The only problem is time, I guess.
But baby, I've got nothing but time.
Well, I think I'm done for today. The final thing I'd like to say before I conclude this post is: RIP OneManga. We had a good run. You were always good to me, but you're in a better place now (yeah, right).
Anyway, later alligator.
Lord Robinson.
P.S. When I was looking for images of pizza, I realized that it actually looks sorta disgusting. I wonder who else thinks that? Doesn't matter. It tastes awesome. It's actually one of my favourite foods.
