A quick and tasty meal

[SeaCat]

The other day my wife grabbed a bag of Chimichanga's from the freezer section of the local store.

Tonight I preheated the oven to the required 375 degrees and tossed six of them into the oven for 30 minutes. (They were frozen.)

At thirty minutes I pulled them out and covered them in a thick layer of chunky Salsa as well as a thick layer of grated cheese. Back into the oven for another five minutes and they were done.

Thirty five minutes and we had a great dinner. (Okay forty five minutes. It takes our oven ten minutes to preheat.)

Cat

 

[CharleyH]

The other day my wife grabbed a bag of Chimichanga's from the freezer section of the local store.

Tonight I preheated the oven to the required 375 degrees and tossed six of them into the oven for 30 minutes. (They were frozen.)

At thirty minutes I pulled them out and covered them in a thick layer of chunky Salsa as well as a thick layer of grated cheese. Back into the oven for another five minutes and they were done.

Thirty five minutes and we had a great dinner. (Okay forty five minutes. It takes our oven ten minutes to preheat.)

Cat

You are a wonder, Cat. Boring as fucking hell with all your posts about your day, yet charming somehow.

 

[SeaCat]

You are a wonder, Cat. Boring as fucking hell with all your posts about your day, yet charming somehow.

*snicker*

And yet I would not be missed if I vanished.

In other words I would make the perfect Washington Host.

Cat

 

[CharleyH]

In other words I would make the perfect Washington Host.

Cat

Probably.

 

[SeaCat]

Probably.

And yet every now and then I do surprise people by getting them to think. (or at least react.)

Cat

 

[rgraham666]

*snicker*

And yet I would not be missed if I vanished.

In other words I would make the perfect Washington Host.

Cat

Hell, I'd miss ya.

 

[cloudy]

Hell, I'd miss ya.

me too.

 

[Dar~]

I would also. Anecdotal stuff is nice for a tossed salad in a day. a little politic, a little flirt, a little life, a little cat...

 

[Chantilyvamp]

I'd mis sya as well

 

[Penelope Street]

Thirty five minutes and we had a great dinner. (Okay forty five minutes. It takes our oven ten minutes to preheat.)

If I found your anecdotal threads boring, I wouldn't read them. Thanks for the quick meal tip!

 

[SeaCat]

Well damn. I can feel the love here.

Don't worry all. I'm not leaving any time soon. I like it here.

Cat

 

[poppy1963]

I figure there's a bit of pre-recorded stuff used...like a LOT sometimes....lol!

 

[SeaCat]

I figure there's a bit of pre-recorded stuff used...like a LOT sometimes....lol!

Some is pre-recorded but not as much as you would expect, most of it is just taken from day to day life.

Today I was offered $200.00 to hang a storm door for a R.N. on my unit. ($200.00 to do something that will take me about an hour? W.T.F.?)

I have this strange ability to not only ;earn frm things but to find the humor in things. I have this strange ability to find humor in the things that happen to me.

Not to long ago my hair band broke as I was doing first rounds. I walked into a patients room and he looked up at me with my hair hanging down and called me Jesus. I looked at him and without missing a beat told him it wasn't his time yet. He had to get better because his work wasn't done yet.

Later in the day he saw me again and was slightly pissed, although he had to laugh about it.

Cat

 

[poppy1963]

Some is pre-recorded but not as much as you would expect, most of it is just taken from day to day life.

Today I was offered $200.00 to hang a storm door for a R.N. on my unit. ($200.00 to do something that will take me about an hour? W.T.F.?)

I have this strange ability to not only ;earn frm things but to find the humor in things. I have this strange ability to find humor in the things that happen to me.

Not to long ago my hair band broke as I was doing first rounds. I walked into a patients room and he looked up at me with my hair hanging down and called me Jesus. I looked at him and without missing a beat told him it wasn't his time yet. He had to get better because his work wasn't done yet.

Later in the day he saw me again and was slightly pissed, although he had to laugh about it.

Cat

lol...okkay!



LOL!!!

 

[cantdog]

The trouble with pre-stoked meals from a freezer is expense.

Food is a bargain, if you are buying ingredients and will prepare it. It costs a great deal more already prepared.

A Quick And Tasty Meal has been the theme of thousands of cookbooks. Less than half an hour, total, is usually the standard for "quick." And they do it, too.

But you know what's even easier than quick and tasty? A slow cooker. My treasurer is nobody's gourmet, and her favorite recipe is ribs in a slow cooker. Eight hours cooking in one of those things, with a cut like ribs (ribs have oodles of connective tissue) develops gelatin, and the result is a mouth feel which you can't get otherwise. Her recipe is a favorite barbecue sauce, and ribs, and time in the cooker. Two ingredients, just dump them in. They cook while you are gone, and the house smells so goddam good when you turn the key and walk in that you hardly want to wait for the spouse to come home.

 

[matriarch]

The trouble with pre-stoked meals from a freezer is expense.

Food is a bargain, if you are buying ingredients and will prepare it. It costs a great deal more already prepared.

A Quick And Tasty Meal has been the theme of thousands of cookbooks. Less than half an hour, total, is usually the standard for "quick." And they do it, too.

But you know what's even easier than quick and tasty? A slow cooker. My treasurer is nobody's gourmet, and her favorite recipe is ribs in a slow cooker. Eight hours cooking in one of those things, with a cut like ribs (ribs have oodles of connective tissue) develops gelatin, and the result is a mouth feel which you can't get otherwise. Her recipe is a favorite barbecue sauce, and ribs, and time in the cooker. Two ingredients, just dump them in. They cook while you are gone, and the house smells so goddam good when you turn the key and walk in that you hardly want to wait for the spouse to come home.

*drooling*

I'm going to assume ribs there, and ribs here come out quite differently.

I buy ribs from the store when I can find them, the ones I get don't have a lot of meat on them, more of a nibble than a meal, but if you have a whole pile of them........

When the boys were at home it was favourite meal (ex was veggy, so the 3 of us would pig out)....Just roasted them in the oven for around 20 minutes, and then for the last 10 minutes poured the sauce over .....a Delia Smith special, which has always worked (soy sauce, some kind of white wine or vinegar, English mustard powder, brown sugar, tomato puree and oil, in specific quantities). The resulting sticky deliciousness always goes down well.

I would put a huge dish of these on the table, beside an equally large dish of rice and peas and another sweetcorn dripping in butter, and that's one meal that I had trouble persuading them to eat.

When the youngest comes to visit, he always asks if we can ribs and rice.

Bless.

Dammit, now I'm hungry.

 

[SeaCat]

The trouble with pre-stoked meals from a freezer is expense.

Food is a bargain, if you are buying ingredients and will prepare it. It costs a great deal more already prepared.

A Quick And Tasty Meal has been the theme of thousands of cookbooks. Less than half an hour, total, is usually the standard for "quick." And they do it, too.

But you know what's even easier than quick and tasty? A slow cooker. My treasurer is nobody's gourmet, and her favorite recipe is ribs in a slow cooker. Eight hours cooking in one of those things, with a cut like ribs (ribs have oodles of connective tissue) develops gelatin, and the result is a mouth feel which you can't get otherwise. Her recipe is a favorite barbecue sauce, and ribs, and time in the cooker. Two ingredients, just dump them in. They cook while you are gone, and the house smells so goddam good when you turn the key and walk in that you hardly want to wait for the spouse to come home.

LOLOL

You know you are right on the money here.

The Chimi's were on sale and are a treat for us.

Slow Cookers are Gods Gift to human kind, right behind the smoker. I have three slow cookers. (I had four but gave one to a friend.)

Chili in a slow cooker is worth the wait.

Cat