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We got a new oven the other day. Our "old" oven, which was only 5 years old or so, totally died. The computer controls weren't turning on the oven elements. It was very sad, because it wasn't under warranty and would have cost a lot of money to fix.
So we got a "new" oven for $30. Thank you, Cragslist! Our kitchen is looking more like the 70's every day.
The drawer isn't in yet, but LOOK! It has wheels so that we can clean around it! And it's tall enough for Dave to cook on without bending over! Brilliant.
We decided that we'd cook a simple meal tonight. Pasta with a pesto asparagus sauce. All you have to do is boil the asparagus for 5-10 minutes, transfer them to a pan, add some pesto from a jar, boil the pasta in the asparagus water, add the pasta to the sauce, and you're done.
We got a bit carried away, once I started. First off, Dave said he wanted some peppers and onions in the sauce, so I cooked those in the pan while the asparagus was boiling.
Then Dave decided that he wanted to barbecue some bread. We had some natural sourdough all ready to be kneaded a second time. Instead of kneading it, I flattened it onto a board covered in cornmeal and covered it in oregano, basil and olive oil.
Meanwhile, Dave got the barbecue heated up. He put it on a cast iron grill (because that's all we had) and smoked it.
We're going to have to pick up a pizza stone. The grill burned the bottom of the bread, but it was a very thin piece of burned bread that we had to slice off, and the rest of the bread was so amazingly tasty.
At this point, he asked me if I still had that chicken in the fridge ready to cook. He covered it in the oil, basil and oregano mix that I'd used to coat the bread and grilled it on the barbecue that was already hot from making the bread. We put it in with the pasta sauce once it was done. It was a brilliant idea.
For this recipe, I chose the giant rigatoni, because the sauce is big and chunky. It is so important to have a supply of many kinds of pastas for many kinds of sauces. For real. Trust me.
While the pasta was boiling in the pot, and the chicken was still grilling, we took a quick break for a rum and coke. We make a point of stocking up on cola that has sugar cane as apposed to corn syrup. Fentimans is preferred, but it's super pricey, so we take whatever we can find on sale at Winners.
That's right. They sell cane cola at Winners. If you're lucky.
When making a rum and coke, or Cuba Libre, I usually go for Gosling's rum, which has a lot of flavour. English Harbour is more subtle, I would say, but the results were just as satisfying.
There was no cheese. I was spoiled living with my parents, because they only ever bought nice parmesan. I either get the nice stuff or go without. It's too depressing to eat the cheap stuff.
As you can see, we have a long way to go with the decor, but at least we eat well. Very well.
I am so stuffed.
So we got a "new" oven for $30. Thank you, Cragslist! Our kitchen is looking more like the 70's every day.
The drawer isn't in yet, but LOOK! It has wheels so that we can clean around it! And it's tall enough for Dave to cook on without bending over! Brilliant.We decided that we'd cook a simple meal tonight. Pasta with a pesto asparagus sauce. All you have to do is boil the asparagus for 5-10 minutes, transfer them to a pan, add some pesto from a jar, boil the pasta in the asparagus water, add the pasta to the sauce, and you're done.
We got a bit carried away, once I started. First off, Dave said he wanted some peppers and onions in the sauce, so I cooked those in the pan while the asparagus was boiling.
Then Dave decided that he wanted to barbecue some bread. We had some natural sourdough all ready to be kneaded a second time. Instead of kneading it, I flattened it onto a board covered in cornmeal and covered it in oregano, basil and olive oil.
Meanwhile, Dave got the barbecue heated up. He put it on a cast iron grill (because that's all we had) and smoked it.
We're going to have to pick up a pizza stone. The grill burned the bottom of the bread, but it was a very thin piece of burned bread that we had to slice off, and the rest of the bread was so amazingly tasty.
At this point, he asked me if I still had that chicken in the fridge ready to cook. He covered it in the oil, basil and oregano mix that I'd used to coat the bread and grilled it on the barbecue that was already hot from making the bread. We put it in with the pasta sauce once it was done. It was a brilliant idea.
For this recipe, I chose the giant rigatoni, because the sauce is big and chunky. It is so important to have a supply of many kinds of pastas for many kinds of sauces. For real. Trust me.
While the pasta was boiling in the pot, and the chicken was still grilling, we took a quick break for a rum and coke. We make a point of stocking up on cola that has sugar cane as apposed to corn syrup. Fentimans is preferred, but it's super pricey, so we take whatever we can find on sale at Winners.That's right. They sell cane cola at Winners. If you're lucky.
When making a rum and coke, or Cuba Libre, I usually go for Gosling's rum, which has a lot of flavour. English Harbour is more subtle, I would say, but the results were just as satisfying.
There was no cheese. I was spoiled living with my parents, because they only ever bought nice parmesan. I either get the nice stuff or go without. It's too depressing to eat the cheap stuff.
As you can see, we have a long way to go with the decor, but at least we eat well. Very well.I am so stuffed.
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