TOPIC: What do you like to cook?

coconut chocolate chip cookies and chocolate peanut butter chip cookies.

first time, so we'll see what happens.

Recently, I made mixed vegetable and Andouille Sausage soup (ok, was peppery first day), spaghetti sauce (too oily, too fruity maybe from too much red wine), and mixed vegetable and ground pork stir fry.

The stir fry sauces (I did the same stir fry in two batches as I prefer using small wok to large wok) were kitchen sink, using some combination of: water, soy sauce, gochujang, hoisin, oyster sauce, tahini, sesame oil, hot crispy oil, allspice, ginger, brown sugar, black pepper, Chinese vinegar, Chinese cooking wine, mustard powder. I didn't bother with corn starch as I didn't really care about thickening up.

And, yet, the stir fries (now combined) were too bland. I could add crushed red pepper, but that seems ... ridiculous.

fried up some ham steaks. i threw in some homemade hash browns and a few eggs scrambled. all in the same skillet. did some home cooked grits. yummy.

So, need to use up stuff, well, as usual.

The plan was very coherent. First, use up the remaining half pound of bacon by frying it and eating it shortly out of the skillet.

Check.

With the bacon grease, drop in some yellow onion and chopped frozen kebabs. Add minced garlic. Put the rice cooked the previous week in. Add the baby corn and the one Habanero in. Finish up with oyster sauce and sesame oil.

Result - meat gravyesque fried rice. Better than most things I make. However, the Habanero generates a persistent distraction that is unnecessary. Not ultimately that spicy, but I don't think it's adding much flavorwise.

To use up the other Habaneros, thinking ... uh ... soup. But, I think I'll remove the seeds and membranes.

fried bologna.

got some 1/2" sliced at the deli. threw it in a nonstick skillet on a very low heat. poked a few holes with a fork to open the slices up for seasoning.

put some Arby's sauce on one slice. tasty
tried some heinz 57. tasty also
tried a dry rub a fried made, (no idea what is in it; he never says). REALLY tasty.

i wiped out the skillet between slices. i didn't want to mix the flavorings.

i tried some batter fried chicken.

got 4 lg chicken breasts dipped them in buttermilk (couldn't think of anything else at the time).
rolled them in crushed wavy lays hickory bbq chips.
then into some hot oil.

not bad, but felt like i missed something.