I've never eaten bread pudding. One look at it and I figured I'd have texture issues.

I'm not a particularly inspired cook, but I usually only follow the recipe once and thereafter wing it (except with baking. The crucial measurements stick. The add ons, however...) Also, I have a tendency to want certain things that I can't get the traditional ingrediants for, so I make up stuff. Like my posole or when I make enchiladas. I don't have my friend's mom's to die for recipe, but I make do.

Also, I can be really lazy, so if there is a shortcut, I'll find it.

Tonight's dinner was a bad-for-you fridge dump. Egg noodles cooked in broth, toss in a corn/carrot/broccoli/babycorn blend I had leftover, oh, hey there is some sour cream left here and while I'm at it, a little shredded cheddar. Remarkably like camping dinners we'd make on the trail.

Kalsane--I scorched my mom's lentil soup recipe abnout the first, oh, 12 zillion times I made it. I finally learned the right burner settings for it and the other things I cook on a regular basis, but it took a looooooong time. Look at it this way, you are one pot closer to making perfect chili!

Also? You can always resort to crockpotting.

I've come VERY close to burning soups and stews because of my slapdash treatment of gas burners and a cheapass thin soup pot.

My chilli never seems really done unless a little burn on the bottom of hte pan.

It's hungry outside, and I'm all snowy.

I was gonna nag you. Turns out I don't have to, but that's not nice news. Very sorry to hear it.

Thanks. Unfortunately, the general consensus is that maybe I should avoid the Krav until I begin to get a little bit more fixed.

Of course, I was also told to onl have one cup of coffee a day, and I think we all know that's not happening.

Mmm, coffee. These weather reports are like dispatches from the future, since we're supposed to get this storm tomorrow, after it intensifies. Oy!

Now that the worst of the snow dumping is done, we're supposed to have winds. They aren't here yet. I want them here before I have to shovel or walk under the trees. Because you know the trees just wait to dump their snow the minute someone walks under them.

Also? I wish I'd get some thunder & lightening. First real snowstorm I experienced up here was late one February. I was woken up for it by the thunder and completely boggled that it was SNOWING and there was THUNDER. I didn't know that happened.

It very rarely thunders and lightnings during snow. At least around here.

It's kinda cool. Even manages to mitigate my snow hate because I adore thunder & lightening. To an unhealthy degree.